From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 06:20:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07120 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 06:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07012 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 06:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id GAA21776; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 06:20:00 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id GAA01746; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 06:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 06:09:36 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Ben Salem cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wich distribution am I suppose to install? In-Reply-To: <000701bda023$3cb77f00$2b05f7c6@compunaut> 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 Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ben Salem wrote: >I have heard many different suggestions on wich distribution to install. >Some say X-User, because I can always add on later. Others say >Everything, if I have the space (966mb in /usr). And others still say no >to that, becuase of the amount of space that the source code takes up (I >don't nessecarily wan't that). So I suppose what I am asking is, first >of all, wich distribution would you recommend for a new FreeBSD user who >wants to use the internet, Telnet Daemon, FTP Daemon, WWW Server, >Programming, Text Editors, Games, X-Windows, and most of the other common >things, but doesn't want the source code, and 966mb at my disposal? It really depends on what you want to do. Only you can figure this out. You have already discussed all the reasons for choosing different distributions. I recommend using the X Developer distribution. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message