Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:35:43 +0200 From: Jalle <defacto@home.se> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello Newbs Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030424102910.00bb62e8@archimedes.rsn.bth.se> In-Reply-To: <0HDT00EKTWXHAT@net.WAU.NL>
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Aah! Mike, you're a hero! I've been thinking of doing what you have done for a long time, just to get something going on this list! Few months ago I switched from my dual boot- Win2k & FreeBSD- to plain FreeBSD, and I have still to see what Windows can do that FreeBSD can't. Apart from the device drivers that is... Hope to get more people into *BSD, it would be better for all of us! See ya! /Jalle At 05:41 2003-04-24 +0107, Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: >Hey Mike, welcome on the list here! > >I see you've got a lot of good comments on your problem there, so... >nothing to add :) >I'm using FreeBSD for a few months now, tried unsuccesfully a few >Linux-distro before that (I managed to get VectorLinux working, but it was >too slow for me :) ). I've tried OpenBSD and NetBSD also, but the amount of >packages got me back to FreeBSD and the next thing I did is removing >Window$. Haven't missed it yet :) >The only thing I miss is my scanner, I do not get it to work (tried using >Sane, but I guess my scanner is too old...). Not that I need my scanner >that much, so... Tried to ask it on freebsd-questions but got no response >:( > >Hope you continue liking FreeBSD, at least I will :) > >On Wednesday 23 April 2003 07:07 pm, Mike wrote: > > I havn't seen any traffic on this list since I signed up for it so I > > thought I would send a message in a bottle and see what comes back.I > > have been using FreeBSD for a couple weeks and I really like it.I was > > using Linux before so it was not much of a shock making the > > switch.Actually I still have linux on another partition.I havn't booted > > it in a while though.The only thing I havn't got working yet is my usb > > quickcam express.I am using cvsup to update my sources and portupgrade > > to compile the programs I am using.Last night I ran make world for the > > first time.It was pretty cool. > > > > Mike >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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