Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 16:53:46 +0800 From: "william gatlin" <willietheturtle@linuxmail.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: I quit Message-ID: <20050109085346.D88A823EE65@ws5-4.us4.outblaze.com>
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Hello,=20 =20 I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying = to get it to work. After figuring out=20 how to get an ISO image, windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted o= n modifying the file, I loaded it and=20 got a lot of error code 1 messages that I never did figure out. I changed = the partitioning and allowed 1/2 a gig=20 for the root directory and loaded it again.=20 =20 All seemed to go well untill I tryed to configure the X.org windowing syste= m. Nothing in /stand/sysinstall would=20 do any configuration of X. Went to the net and got instructions. Finally = got X to work and found vidtune.=20 =20 Kdm comes up with a log in screen which just leads to another log in screen= . ctrl-alt-backspace won't turn x off=20 as it keeps comming back on it's own. Nothing leads to a window manager ot= her than the little one that comes with=20 X.=20 =20 I re-downloaded the window managers from the net and hoped that would fix i= t. It didn't. I'm sure that the trouble=20 is in some little config file somewhere or another but I just don't have t= he time as I need a running system=20 going.=20 =20 My opinion is that x.org isn't integrated quite well enough yet for prime t= ime. My BSD books don't have the new=20 commands and other information to be of any use and the Man pages that down= loaded were of no help either.=20 =20 So for now I'm going to try to load Slackware and hope that maybe in a year= BSD will be easier to wade through. I=20 have to admit a bit of sorrow in having to do this as I wanted them both on= the same machine.=20 =20 At the same time I wish to communicate my respect and admiration for the gr= eat job the BSD community is doing and=20 hope in no way to communicate any disregaurd for everyones efforts.=20 =20 Right now I have to have Windows up and running also and am watching it go = into a self destruct mode from somthing=20 that it downloaded from the net all by it's self with no human operator tou= ching it. There are so many Popups I=20 had to pull the net cable just to stop it. They don't get no respect.=20 =20 It is my hope that the various Windows emulators will/are working well enou= gh to run some of my mission critical=20 programs. Espesially 'Trade Station' . I can't imagine having thousands o= f dollars riding on Microsoft=20 reliability.=20 =20 Thank You--------Bill Gatlin=20=20=20 --=20 ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org=20 This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
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