looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Brooks Lackey
Okay i have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with centrino mobil technology at 1.86GHZ, 512MB of memory and a 60Gig HDD. Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? Can i use Yahoo Messanger, Itunes, AOL Messanger. I am just looking around as i am now tired of

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? freebsd is only one system, there is no which you can select from. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:31:58AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? freebsd is only one system, there is no which you can select from. Maybe Brooks Lackey was referring to choices between: FreeBSD PC-BSD

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-13 23:51, Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay i have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with centrino mobil technology at 1.86GHZ, 512MB of memory and a 60Gig HDD. Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? Any recent release should do. The

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:25:00AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-13 23:51, Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can i use Yahoo Messanger, Itunes, AOL Messanger. No, these programs are written by their respective vendors and they are released only for Microsoft Windows

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-14 02:42, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:25:00AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-13 23:51, Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just looking around as i am now tired of Windows. I dont know everything about OS but i like to learn new

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.]

2007-08-14 Thread Predrag Punosevac
---BeginMessage--- A good choice for the Windows user would be PC-BSD http://pcbsd.org/?p=download14 primarily due to the easy installation. I have quite a bit experience with it. You would get nice KDE environment very similar to what you had in Windows. It is based on 6.2 Stable and XOrg

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can i use Yahoo Messanger, Itunes, AOL Messanger. I use (when forced to G) gaim to talk to people on yahoo + AOL messenger networks. I dont know how complete are gaim features compared to the original commercial

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Christian Walther
On 14/08/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] iTunes, natively, no. I dont know whether u can run it under Wine. I found that Amarok is a nice replacement for iTunes, as long as you don't need to

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Bob Middaugh
From: Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay i have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with centrino mobil technology at 1.86GHZ, 512MB of memory and a 60Gig HDD. Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? Can i use Yahoo Messanger, Itunes, AOL Messanger.

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Andy Greenwood
Bob Middaugh wrote: From: Brooks Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay i have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with centrino mobil technology at 1.86GHZ, 512MB of memory and a 60Gig HDD. Basically I need to know which of the OS from freebsd will be the best for me to use? Can i use Yahoo Messanger,