Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:25:26 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: GR Gaudreau <grgaud@sprint.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9808121521590.13387-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199808120016.UAA14804@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca>
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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
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