From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 12:10:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5806F16A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:10:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from outgoing.redshift.com (outgoing.redshift.com [207.177.231.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DCF43D45 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:10:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from workstation (216-228-19-21.dsl.redshift.com [216.228.19.21]) by outgoing.redshift.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2097A97777; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 05:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20050801051007.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> X-Mailer: na X-Sender: redshift.com Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:10:07 -0700 To: Eric Anderson From: ray@redshift.com In-Reply-To: <42EE0EE7.2010809@centtech.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20050801043607.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> <3.0.1.32.20050801043607.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:10:06 -0000 | Have you looked at the Handbook? It pretty much covers what you need to | know to get working. Also, freebsd-questions@ would be a better email | list (rather than -hackers, which is for hacking on FreeBSD code, etc). I did read through the handbook, but I see I missed a couple of sections in it. I missed freebsd-questions on the list.. I was looking for something like freebsd-desktop :-D I am only subscribed to hackers and a couple of others to keep tabs on servers stuff. | Better? Depends of course. I (as do many others) use FreeBSD on my | desktop and laptop, and feel no need to use anything else really. Okay, good to hear. I love FreeBSD - I dumped Linux redhat a couple of years ago and moved all of our servers over to FreeBSD and just love it. I really want to be able to make FreeBSD my desktop and it seems like i should be able to get it up and running and configured like SUSE or Redhat or Xandros or something along those lines with a little work. | Not sure what you want here, but if you aren't willing to change some | apps, then you shouldn't switch. FreeBSD/linux/etc are not Windows, so | you can't expect them to be Windows. If you are willing to make a | change of email readers (try Thunderbird, Mozilla, etc, etc) and a few | other programs, you'd be fine. I have a drive tray on my machine, so I was going to keep XP around on another drive and pop that in to access a shared drive D maybe. I read about a product called codeweaver that looks pretty good - but I'm not sure if it will work on BSD Thanks again. Ray