From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 5 08:26:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19377 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from info1.info.tampere.fi (pc048.soitto.info.tampere.fi [212.63.8.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19366 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:26:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi) Received: from info1.info.tampere.fi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by info1.info.tampere.fi (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02106 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 18:22:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi) Message-Id: <199812051622.SAA02106@info1.info.tampere.fi> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: My fbsd experiences Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 18:22:41 +0200 From: Jukka Similä Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all I've been around since june, but because of my cdrom drive I didn't use freebsd for 2-3 months. Now I got "new" computer (166Mhz/64MB/4.3G+2*0.5G/6x)and I'm back to fbsd - after several weeks of parsing and praying.. I've got dualboot, with Nt 4.0 WS on first partition (1G) and fbsd 2.2.6 on second partition, 3G. It was interesting when I was installing these OS'es - NT didn't see fbsd's boot manager, and boot manager sees NTFS as HPFS . Windows 95 didn't like me at all, it destroyed my harddisk and I had to format it. I was so stupid that I didn't believe that win95 wouldn't install with fbsd AND NT, so I tried it several times - I wanted to have tripleboot but it seems to be very difficult to make it working with two (or more, I tested the good old ms-dos too) m$'s products. I also found out that even win NT isn't very stable, I got dial-up network working fine with it but it doesn't work anymore - and i haven't changed a thing. Well I don't really need it anymore, I got ppp working great from freebsd, and I haven't even booted to winNT for few weeks. But I also had something to ask about: I remember someone asked about StarOffice, and Sue told him/her to try some ports - which those ports/packages were? Any other suggestions for good/powerful/nice/goodlooking/terrible textprocessing utilities are welcome btw, does anyone know any url's to documents that describe programming in UNIX environment? - I don't know how to compile my c program which uses gtk.. and that's a BIG problem. Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message