From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 17:14:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05353 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca (hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca [207.107.250.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05340 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grgaud@sprint.ca) Received: from grgaud (spc-isp-ott-uas-01-4.sprint.ca [209.103.29.5]) by hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14804 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199808120016.UAA14804@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> From: "GR Gaudreau" To: Subject: FreeBSD or Linux? Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:14:15 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm not UNIX proficient and have been a Windoze user since version 3.0. All I want to do is to run my computer as a workstation, get on the Internet, do some word processing and HTML programming, and some light graphical work. I have a board that has an AMD K5 90Mhz, 32BM RAM, two 504MB Quantum HDDs, and an ATI 264CT video card with 2MB RAM. I don't mind the learning curve, I know I can learn to use this OS. I might even be tempted to learn to program if the right UNIX-like OS came along. I've had a tiny bit of experience with Linux. I had it on my computer for about two weeks. ;-) I want to move away from Windoze 9x to a stable and dependable OS. Would I be better off installing say, Redhat 5.1, or the latest version of FreeBSD? And, what X-Windows GUI should I run on my machine? Damn! there are so many of them!! Thanks. -- G.R. Gaudreau grgaud@sprint.ca http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5783/ If a man who is mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message