From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 20:24:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07780 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07686 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00642; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:25:27 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:25:26 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: GR Gaudreau cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? In-Reply-To: <199808120016.UAA14804@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, GR Gaudreau wrote: > 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. Well, FreeBSD has a native Netscape binary; and with Linux emulation you could run WordPerfect 8... [snip] > Would I be better off installing say, Redhat 5.1, or the > latest version of FreeBSD? FreeBSD! Of course, what else would you expect if you ask freebsd-questions :). >And, what X-Windows GUI should I run on my > machine? Damn! there are so many of them!! Thanks. My personal preference is WindowMaker, http://www.windowmaker.org, it's cute, it's flashy, and has more options than ls(1). Cheers. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | When all else fails, RTFM ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message