new to BSD
I hope BSD is what I want and need and I can handle it. I got interested reading a guy say that he changed from DOS and in looking for a server who offered a Lynx browser they had BSD as an OS choice so I went looking. The reason why I am looking is that Windows drives me crazy and I want to be able to run on any machine I choose and the less powerfull the better so I don't have to hope that better ones come out to give me more speed. To me Windows seems counter intuitive but then I had a devistating injury that affected everything and my vision sees text better than icons and Small text I can't change. I had a Nice situation with an ISP that had Lynx as an optional browser for text and it flew on any old PC or slow modem. Actually my 14.4K was as fast or faster than my 56K.. I also never had to use a mouse online and with muscle weakness and stamina problems I tired fast and the vagueness of using a mouse drove me buggy when I had to use it and Windows on AOL that I jumped on to get on line but I am having fits with both and a PC they fried so I have reloaded programs many more times than I want to think about. Here's hoping I found an answer. Vince Fontana
Re: new to BSD
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:11:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope BSD is what I want and need and I can handle it. I hope so too, but FreeBSD-current (the development version) is definitely not what you're looking for as a new user. Start off by just installing the latest release (4.6.2 at this time). Please see the handbook on http://www.freebsd.org/ for more information about the FreeBSD development/release model. Kris msg42291/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new to BSD
Vince, I think this e-mail would be better placed in the newbie's list... You'd probably get a lot more help there... To subscribe: Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include the following line in the body of your message: subscribe freebsd-newbies also, from www.freebsd.org: Join the FreeBSD-Questions mailing list to see the questions you were too afraid to ask, and their answers. Subscribe by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe freebsd-questions on its own in the message body (the subject doesn't matter). You can look up old questions and answers via the search page. Here are a couple other excellent resources: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/index2.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html Good luck! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
