Re: Im new to FreeBSD
[resending to newsgroup, since I only replied to the OP] Well, if Crossover Office ran on FreeBSD, I would probably never boot my windows machine except as reference to help family with windows problems. Your hardware issues are quite good enough. Applications: Most non-windows operating systems won't run windows apps. However, with the Wine poject, many will run. For example, I have been playing Master of Orion III on my my BSD machine under wine, and it runs _better_ than in Windows. However, getting office, corel photopaint, visual studios and trillian to install properly seems to be an effort in futility. Crossover office would fix many of these problems, but it doesn't seem to install on FreeBSD, and it seems there is some trickery involved, using multiple operating systems to get it to work (not worth the expert, unless you are a major tech savant I suspect). That being said, the advantages and disadvantages of FreeBSD over the other main x86 candidate, Linux, at least to my experience; (1) Installation - FreeBSD is probably one of the most unpleasant installers to learn, that I've found, it's a lot better in 6.0/6.1 though. It's not gui, which is OK, but there are confusing and redundant options, that let you go out of order, and change things at bad times somtimes, and unless you are quite knoledgeable in the process, you can go out of order and really screw things up. Also, the hard drive configuration tool can have issues with some drive/chipset combos (such as a 120GB IDE Western Digital drive on the IDE chipset of an A8N-E motherboard in my experience). NOTE: Once you learn this, it's not that bad, and to be honest, it's a one time thing. (2) Upkeep - FreeBSD is much easier to keep up than linux. (a) you have this mailing list. I've never seen anyone use RTFM here, and even if they do something similar things, they will at least tell you *where* to look. (b) The handbook is VERY well written, and is inordinately useful. (c) Googled howtos and docs for FreeBSD seem to be better written than the linux equivalents. They don't assume nearly as high of a user-knowledge as Linux docs tend to, which is nicer to the novices. (3) Oh Crap! - On those Oh Crap! moments, that happen to everyone, some strange thing happens and you have to fix some horrible error. FreeBSDs better documentation, and more helpful error messages make fixing the issues much easier. The hurried newbie will find him/her self reinstalling less, and fixing without reinstalling more, saving a lot of time and effort. BSD is much better here. (4) App install; I've had horrible luck with *nix app installs, they allways seem to have some compilation issue in the source file distributions, unless you have exactly the right setup, and RPMs tend to lead to dependancy hell worse than any I've ever seen, the yucky app yum doesn't help this much. Debians apt-get is better, but still has it's issues. Ports is insanely reliable, and issues in ports are relatively easy to fix. FreeBSD is much better here. (5) Windows application compatability - Crossover Office unfortunately doesn't work on FreeBSD, so Linux has an advantage here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Im new to FreeBSD
Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will BSD come with everything I will need? (word processor,internet browser,ECT)... __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Im new to FreeBSD
JASON HOWARD wrote: Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will BSD come with everything I will need? (word processor,internet browser,ECT)... FreeBSD should work fine with your hardware. as to your software, do not expect anything you currently have to run in FreeBSD. However, there are TONS of applications included with FreeBSD via the Ports collection that can replace the programs you use now. OpenOffice, Firefox, etc. should work just fine for you. Good luck in your new OS search. FreeBSD is a great one! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Im new to FreeBSD
Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will BSD come with everything I will need? (word processor,internet browser,ECT)... Also check a popular run-up PCBSD http://www.pcbsd.org/ which probably will serve you best if you're looking for replacement desktop, easy to install and configure. Tamouh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Im new to FreeBSD
why do all of these e-mails show up in my inboxxx please lemme know -Original Message- From: JASON HOWARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Im new to FreeBSD Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will BSD come with everything I will need? (word processor,internet browser,ECT)... __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Im new to FreeBSD
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:52:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why do all of these e-mails show up in my inboxxx please lemme know Where should they show up? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't want to be subscribed to this list then see the above line starting with To unsubscribe -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Im new to FreeBSD
On Monday 12 June 2006 12:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why do all of these e-mails show up in my inboxxx please lemme know You have subscribed your self to the mailing list... [SNIP] Best regards... -- . 0 . | Daniel Molina Wegener . . 0 | dmw at unete dot cl 0 0 0 | FreeBSD User ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Im new to FreeBSD
Jason, 15000 freeware applications. Read about the ports collection. Please read the manual. It is an excellent piece of work. Paul On Monday 12 June 2006 11:10, JASON HOWARD wrote: Im very new to this and have some questions,Im looking for an operationg system to replace windows Xp on my computer.My computer has a celeron processor and 512 megabytes of memory.Is this enought to run freeBSD ?.And also,I have many applications,will they be compatible with freeBSD or will BSD come with everything I will need? (word processor,internet browser,ECT)... __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
