Re: BSD Question
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:38:39AM -0800, Tosin A. Atolagbe wrote: Hi, My name is Tosin and I just have three questions regarding the FreeBSD operating system? I intend on starting a business in the summer and I plan on using a secure operating system (definitely not MS Windows). 1. Is FreeBSD useful for a desktop environment for people to use in a workplace, (e.g. secretary, accountant, and manager) ? Basically, yes, but it depends on the abilities of your staff and their willingness to adapt to what may be a foreign environment for them. OpenOffice provides a very good stab at the same sort of functionality as Microsoft Office: it's usable, but there may be a few odd corners and rough spots. Other applications -- like web browsers -- far outclass the standard Microsoft equivalents. You'll find that FreeBSD based systems need someone knowledgeable to build them into a network-wide structure (ie. setting up LDAP, mail systems, file shares etc.) -- there aren't any point'n'drool interfaces for setting that sort of thing up. (One unexpected bonus of that is that you will be able to build something that precisely matches your needs, instead of bodging your organization around the closest pre-canned setup you can afford to buy). 2. Is FreeBSD completely free to download and use for commercial use? If so, are there licensing issues to worry about? It's absolutely free in monetary terms, for whatever use you want to make of it. No licensing costs for anything under the BSD license. That license says in essence: Here is the software. Do with it what you will, just don't claim you wrote it, and don't blame us if you break it. Bits of the system, and many 3rd party add-on packages use the Gnu Public License, which is very similar and usually equally free of cost, but has extra restrictions that probably won't affect you limiting the manner in which you may redistribute software. (ie. you have to provide it under the same license and you must provide source code). 3. Is FreeBSD a 64bit operating system, because I may also think of having a lot of the projects on a server for accessing from other computers or even at home? FreeBSD runs on a number of 64-bit platforms, yes. Tier 1 platforms at the moment include: Alpha, AMD64, IA64 and Sparc64 (See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html) with work on PPC and MIPS in the pipeline. However, the best supported, most reliable system for running FreeBSD on is still the IA32 platform. The UFS2 filesystems in FreeBSD 5.x are fully 64bit in their internals on all platforms, and capable of providing terabyte scale filesystems. FreeBSD also supports the PAE extensions on IA32 machines, meaning that the OS can make use of more than 4Gb RAM on a 32bit platform. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: BSD Question
I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1. I made it through the installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm dual booting with Windows. I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD. The boot manager is installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go to pick, both options boot to BSD. F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but it turns out its not. [snip] When you installed XFree86, did you also install a desktop manager? You can install X without a window manager ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
+-- Minnesota Slinky [freebsd] [04-10-03 20:03 IST]: | Usually, windows will show up in the BSD boot manager as ???, so the | boot prompt on my system (Win2K and FreeBSD 5.1) is the following: | | F1 ??? | F2 FreeBSD If you have NTFS then it shows ???. Else it shows DOS. | -- With Best Regards, Shantanoo Mahajan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
David Witt wrote: I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1. I made it through the installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm dual booting with Windows. I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD. The boot manager is installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go to pick, both options boot to BSD. F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but it turns out its not. Hmm, what do your drive entries look like in 'dmesg' ? When I boot into BSD, it leads me to a text based login screen, how do I get KDE to function. Thank you in advance. David Witt What happens when you login and issue: $startx Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BSD Question
Usually, windows will show up in the BSD boot manager as ???, so the boot prompt on my system (Win2K and FreeBSD 5.1) is the following: F1 ??? F2 FreeBSD When I've installed FreeBSD on a physically separate drive, it usually creates two boot menus similar to the following: F1 ??? F2 Disk 1 (pressing F2) F1 Disk 0 F2 FreeBSD As far as getting KDE to work, you should have the following in your user directory (usually /home/username) in the file .xinitrc exec startkde You can put other things in there, say if you wanted to start ymessenger or something similar as you load KDE. If you want to boot into graphical right away, see the post I just went through from the last couple days: KDM and FreeBSD HTH Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (952) 403-9000 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Witt Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BSD Question I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1. I made it through the installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm dual booting with Windows. I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD. The boot manager is installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go to pick, both options boot to BSD. F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but it turns out its not. When I boot into BSD, it leads me to a text based login screen, how do I get KDE to function. Thank you in advance. David Witt _ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 04:27:29 -0500, David Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1. I made it through the installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm dual booting with Windows. I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD. The boot manager is installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go to pick, both options boot to BSD. F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but it turns out its not. [snip] The FBSD bootloader should be installed on both BIOS drives, IOW on both the RAID and the Windows disk. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
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Re: BSD Question
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Re: BSD Question
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:20:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My place of employment recently purchased your services. My boss received a little red devil bean bag beanie toy which he gave to me. I brought it home to my son and he just loved it. He brought it with him every where we go. Unfortunately, yesterday he forgot it at day camp and was just hysterical over it. This morning it was gone and both myself and the camp counselor could not find it any where. Would it please be possible for me to get another one of these bean bag beanie red devils from your company. Below is my name and mailing address. If there is a charge, please let me know. Thank you so much. Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Chris, You can purchase BSD daemon beanie dolls from http://www.freebsdmall.com/ (under 'promo' items). Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
