Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:45:30 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rcio_David?= <marciofdavid@hotmail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD ? What kind of OS is that ? Message-ID: <000201c0fa93$1c2076c0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <F102yz5b6KZmcK8r6be000094d5@hotmail.com>
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Okay, first off, do NOT send HTMLized e-mail to the list. That's extremely bad form and it's generally enough to get you shot on sight (with a water gun, rubber band or can of silly string). Second of all, from your original message (which I missed), since you do not like the idea of a login prompt and have had such trouble with Linux in the past... I doubt that you would be ready for the world of FreeBSD. Linux makes a good starting point in the world of OpenSource Unices... but once you get over the cuteness of Tux and the idea that you're doing something "elite", FreeBSD is where you would come to actually discover what a great operating system is. Thirdly, as far as graphical interfaces go, you don't have to use one. In fact, you can get rid of XFree and go on about your business in command line mode without a problem. But, given that you've been working with nothing but GUI-type OSes, I doubt you'd survive very long in a command line driven atmosphere. Fourth, if you're just looking for an OS to install and play with just to say that you have experience with it, you're going about it all wrong. Go to your search engine of choice and have fun running searches. I'm sure there are a few more out there than you've been able to uncover. My fifth comment is that I have OS/2 on one of my machines, and I use it on occasion. (And no, you may NOT have a copy of it!). OS/2 is slowly moving into the category of the legacy OS, as everyone and their dog has bought into the Microsoft marketing machine's thinking that you simply cannot have a company that works and runs properly without having at least some sort of Microsoft product involved. Are you sure that you like OS/2 without ever having used it? This makes me wonder... Maybe it's my interpretation of your English (which I'm sure is better than my attempts at communicating in your native tongue would be), but if you're not wanting to install or use a Unix-like OS (which would be the classification that FreeBSD falls under), why are you here? Additionally, if you're always going to "go back to Windows", why should you even try something that would be different? If you were satisfied with how Windows performed on your hardware, you wouldn't be looking elsewhere, or so I would be inclined to believe. Finally, if you really do love to program in BASIC, as you comment, might I recommend something along the lines of a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 or a Timex/Sinclair 1000? Those would be much more up your alley than a full blown PC. --- Andrew C. Hornback "I've been there, I've done that, and yes, I designed the T-shirt" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Márcio David Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:24 PM To: daniel@grunblatt.com.ar; marcus@marcuscom.com Cc: culverk@wam.umd.edu; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ? What kind of OS is that ? Huummm.. Dude, I used all the OSs I could (not much, but all I could find), in fact I'm still looking for OS/2. Ppl say it's dead, but who cares !? I junt wanna install it, see it working and find some programs for it. Why ? Cuz I like it. Cuz I'm curious. Why I said that things about Unix-like OSs ? Cuz I tried many of them and hated, but I thing it's not a reason to do not install another one... I'll try it again and again and will come back to windows (problably) but at least I found something new. Learned something many Windows users don't know. I tried even Amiga OS ! On a A500 once ! But my favorite is Basic, from MSX ! hehe I love Basic programming. But I think it's not the time to install other unix-like. Wanna something diferent right now. Ah, cya no more. MD -> Yeah, I'm using Windows, so what ? > > > > > > > > I'm using M$ Win ME right now. I tried windows 95/98/ME/2K, MacOS, > > > > > > > > Linux (many distributions), BeOS, and some others OSs ! hehe Well, > > > > > > > > looking at all those OSs, I decided to continue with my old M$ > > > > > > > > OS........ But now I wanna something new ! Something diferent... > > > > > not > > > > > > > > just a new stupid linux distribution that takes 5 hours to make it > > > > > > > > work and about a month to make the damn internet work. So, i would > > > > > > > > like to know if FreeBSD is a DIFERENT OS, or it's just another > > > > > > > > "Linux-like" OS. Exemple : Will i see a stupid prompt asking me to > > > > > > > > type "root" when i turn on my computer ? Will i have to use wich > > > > > > > > Graphical interface ? (please, say it's not KDE...) Guess that's > > > > > all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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