Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:39:28 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <199903270339.VAA21330@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> of "Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:30:33 CST." <3.0.6.32.19990326093033.00919230@mail.bfm.org>
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"G. Adam Stanislav" writes: [...] > I share your sentiments, Unknown of River Styx. To me FreeBSD is largely a > big intellectual excercise. A powerful OS to which I dedicate 8 Gig of disk > space, while I only dedicate 3 Gig to Windows. I dedicated 20MB to DOS 5 on my 2G disk, upped it to 30MB on my 4G disk, but could see NT rearing its fat head in my future so the 9G disk got a 512MB allocation. Balance to FreeBSD. :-) > But when I actually want to accomplish something, I have no choice but to > boot Windows. Not because I like it but because I know how to use it. And > when I don't, I can always figure it out. There is always the "sink or swim" method. Problem is there isn't always enough time to recover from drowning. :-) When I really am under the gun to produce a pretty document I fire up the real tool, my Power Macintosh. One day soon I'm going to put WordPerfect thru the drill under FreeBSD. Was hoping to be playing with Applixware by now. :-( > Under FreeBSD (and, I suppose Unix in general), the solution is no doubt > available and probably more powerful, but it always requires me to use some > cryptically named command. Man pages are of little help to me: First of > all, I would need to know the name of the command to even get to the man > page. And even when I do, it seems the man page is always written in some > foreign language that only outwardly resembles English. Apropos usually > does not help me much either. I never could remember how to spell apropos but could always remember, "man -k". > Just days ago I have installed XFree86 3.3.3.1. Its interface is > reminiscent of Windows 1.0, XFree86 puts you in the minimalist barest window manager in existence, twm. Over the years I keep trying something else but keep falling back to twm. If only I could select twm windows on their borders, and grow them on their corners, I'd be happy. I am happy with SGI's default desktop but don't happen to have an SGI anymore. Don't need the icons. Liked their windows. Liked their clean desktop menu box thingy they put in the top left corner of the screen. If you fire up XFree86 via xdm the default Xsession manager is functional, but ugly, and full of warnings on exit when it doesn't get the information it wishes out of your apps as they are shutdown. > (I kinda suspect that I need more RAM, I only have 8 Meg, although > that is supposed to be enough.) 8M is more than plenty if its VIDEO RAM, but for core? 16M is the often quoted minimum. At work they'll only give me 24MB. Works. Netscape has to swap most every time I pull down a menu. But it works. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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