Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:02:26 -0600 From: ken burk <kburk@midsouth.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Thank You Message-ID: <3C82E3C2.641464CF@midsouth.rr.com>
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I just want to write a quick note here and say a big Thank You to all the people who are developing and useing this wonderfull operating system.I am a home user that spends at least 7 hours per day online and am quite good at finding anything I want to download.I have run about every os that M$ has ever put out includeing xp corporate pro and the new .net enterprise server and the FreeBsd 4.5 I downloaded last sunday/monday beats them all hands down.The responce is awesome as windoze has never worked this fast or felt so stable.I like it so much that I went to comp usa yesterday and bought the FreeBsd powerpack 4.4 for 69 dollars.I'm still running the 4.5 I downloaded but the powerpack came with 10 cd's and an 800 page book (why cant bill sell his that cheap??xp pro is 299.00,has 1 cd and a booklet and is such a resourse hog).I had never run any form of unix before and only knew the ls command when I did the standard install but I quickly got onto the man command and 2 nights later got it online with dhcp client,e-mail and yahoo messenger setup.It's a whole new ballgame to me and im haveing to much fun and with so many free apps,tools and updates to choose from I will never go back to M$ agian for any reason.I just collected the warez and os's off the web for something to do and never sold them but some of you will be glad to know that you have made an honest man out of me as I wont ever mess with them agian and thats a good feeling.Mabey I havent found the right place on your website yet but I would like to see a little more "hold my hand" help for newbies like me on the x-windows gui as im haveing a very hard time finding out how to change my screen resolution (cont,alt +,- wont do it) and installing the ports.Thank goodness for alt mouse click to move the big window so I can see the buttons at the bottom.I have been wearing google out the last few days for imformation.If you guys made the probe just a little smarter and booted new users to a gui with cd burning,modem setup and e-mail wizards,etc.so it was an easy setup for dummies like me I really believe you could sell it for a reasonable price and bring micro$oft to its knees in about 1 year because FreeBsd is a superior product.I have come a long way in a short time and will get mine but most americans arent gonna take the time to do all the required reading so they will stick with bill and have to live with all the bugs and security holes in the bloted os's they have to upgrade for high dollar each year.Seems like bill is putting out a new one every other day and you guys have stuck to improveing this for the last 17 years.Good Job.When I get mine down a little better I plan on spending a lot of time helping others and converting everyone I know to a real os.Thanks agian, Ken Burk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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