From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 20:49:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C186537B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA71333; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:43:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:51:44 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: Marcos Kleber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to and why :) In-Reply-To: <000801c04df0$40bd2000$cb7ff0c8@mkleber> 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 Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Marcos Kleber wrote: >I begin to use freebsd less than a week. Congrats on your new found OS. :-) >so I hope u can undesrtand how dumb I'm in realtion to it !!! It takes some time to learn new things. >I can't understand how to use ports. The handbook explains it. Did you check http://www.freebsd.org/handbook ? Basically the ports is a way to download source code and compile in your machine. There are also "packages" which are pre-compiled binaries. I believe packages are now been build more frequently so you could use them most of the time. It used to be that ports were significantly more up to date than packages, but I think the difference has significanly been reduced. To use packages run /stand/sysinstall -Configure -Packages -Select method to download package (i.e. ftp) -If using ftp select your nearest mirror To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message