From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 13 11:10: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B8B637B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5369; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:15:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3B27AC68.6560E5C4@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:09:44 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ProzacSixtymg@cs.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ProzacSixtymg@cs.com wrote: > I have no clue as to what Unix is, but I hear the FreeBSD is very stable, and > much more secure than Windows ever has been. I am also scared of Internet > Trojans, and hackers, and think FreeBSD might be an option. > Can you give me any information? Two comments: 1) Read the Handbook first. Browse the FreeBSD site. Have some sort of idea of what you're doing before you do it. 2) If you can wrangle it, get a second hard disk and use it for FreeBSD while keeping the first for Windows. If you can't get a second disk, then consider Partition Magic. It's always a pain blowing away one OS only to encounter installation troubles with the other... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message