Miguel Saturnino wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote:
Well, that's your opinion. For me, FreeBSD is a much better desktop than
Windows -- it runs solid and fast and enables me to be more productive
in my work. Of course, what is good for me might not be so good for
On 12/24/05, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not just tell the truth, which is that
Windows XP is the best that you can do for the
desktop, and that there is no perfect solution
that works perfectly in every scenario? FreeBSD
and Linux *should* focus on server functions,
because
If you want to try an different Desktop replacement OS over Windows XP I
would say you would have better luck with something like Linspire.
But the truth is there isn't much difference at all between any Linux
distribution or FreeBSD and when I see the latest Linux review on some
of those so
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 6:28 PM
To: Beech Rintoul; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
--- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 26 December 2005 07
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the one
that *most* people are using.
Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time before
we'll live in a jungle (happely ever after ? ;-)
It's the decease of this era that lost of
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom wrote:
Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)
Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are
some half-assed alternatives for some of these,
but if I have to use something inferior to use
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:03 am, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy
to install/configure,
and infinitely
On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 8:35:04 AM
Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Wrote these words of wisdom:
I would claim that XP is quite capable of screwing up
its system without any real help from the user.
I installed a HP all-in-one scanner-plotter on my
a NEC
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
It doesn't really matter what the accepted
standard is; its the one
that *most* people are using.
Bring this rule to society and it won't take
all that much time before
we'll live in a jungle (happely ever
On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
It doesn't really matter what the accepted standard is; its the
one that *most* people are using.
Bring this rule to society and it won't take all that much time
before
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom
wrote:
Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)
Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there
are
some half-assed alternatives for some
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
It doesn't really matter what the
accepted standard is; its the
one that *most* people are using.
Bring this rule to
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:15 am, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:27 am, Danial Thom
wrote:
Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)
Those are the ones I use daily.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Kay
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: rod person; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Cadence have a wide range of products some of which
run
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Sjostrom
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:11 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: BSD Question's.
To whom this may concern,
H-E-L-P!
[diatribe against Windows deleted]
I have decided to
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:34 AM
To: Michael C. Shultz; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Daniel A.; Andy Sjostrom
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Seibert
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 8:07 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
I have to agree with that statement. I have witnessed all too many
products start out
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Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:54 AM
To: freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
On 24 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop
On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:16 pm, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with
Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that
doesn't always work even with firefox on XP.
NO site should be
On Monday, December 26, 2005 8:28:13 AM
Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Wrote these words of wisdom:
On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:16 pm, dick hoogendijk wrote:
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
There is also the problem that some sites are
designed to work with
Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with
firefox but that doesn't
always work even with firefox on XP.
NO site should be designed to
: BSD Question's.
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel
A.
wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had
with
Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD
really is not targeted at
people who
On Monday 26 December 2005 07:24 am, Danial Thom wrote:
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
There is also the problem that some sites are
designed to work with
Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with
firefox but that doesn't
--- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 26 December 2005 07:24 am, Danial
Thom wrote:
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
There is also the problem that some sites
are
designed to work with
Internet Explorer. You can
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 5:28 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Each browser has some technology that they depend on and you
have to use
that browser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Seibert
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 5:38 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
I belong to a HS Officials Association. The entire BOCES site, where I
can confirm
-Original Message-
From: Danial Thom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 9:00 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Michael C. Shultz; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Daniel A.; Andy Sjostrom
Subject: RE: BSD Question's.
--- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
On 24 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)
Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are
some half-assed alternatives for some of these,
but if I have to use something inferior to use
FreeBSD then
--- dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Dec Danial Thom wrote:
Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)
Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there
are
some half-assed alternatives for some of
these,
but
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy
to install/configure,
and infinitely cheaper.
Considering that WinXP usually comes on the
Hi Daniel
I have not forgotten Ubuntu.
I did try it last spring in a vain attempt and on the advisement of my computer
tech and slackware
guru
(in my eye's only of cousre) to find a better OS.
My tech keeps tring to push me toward the slackware. and he doesn't understand
that many of my
On 2005-12-25 06:33, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast - easy to install -
configure, and
On 24 Dec Kent Stewart wrote:
There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with
Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that doesn't
always work even with firefox on XP.
NO site should be designed to work with IExplorer. I know it's done, but
it should not!
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 08:10, Andy Sjostrom wrote:
To whom this may concern,
H-E-L-P!
LOL!
I've been online since 1992( the windows 3.1 days for me.) I'm 48 yrs.old.
and also a windows XP
user.
Because of recent issue I have had with Mr. William Gates and his product.
about every 6
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at
people who want to use graphical user interfaces.
The linux developers really have been trying to make a valuable
replacement for Windows, as they somehow have
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at
people who want to use graphical user interfaces.
In a few key areas FreeBSD is a better desktop OS than
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A.
wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with
Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD
really is not targeted at
people who want to use graphical user
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:19 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at
people who want to use graphical user
Michael C. Shultz wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD really is not targeted at
people who want to use graphical user interfaces.
In a few key areas FreeBSD
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:34, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A.
wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with
Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD
On Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:34:12 AM
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BSD Question's.
Wrote these words of wisdom:
When you try to be everything to everyone and you
don't have the resources of a MS, then you end up
with mediocre results. Decide what you want
On Saturday 24 December 2005 08:02, Daniel A. wrote:
Hi Mike,
On 12/24/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A. wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel A.
wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had with
Windows XP.
I suggest that you use Linux, as FreeBSD
really
--- Miguel Saturnino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom
wrote:
--- Michael C. Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel
A.
wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had
with
Daniel A. wrote:
One Linux distribution in particular that I think you might like, is
Ubuntu. You can download it at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/, or order a
CD (Free shipping, free CD, you pay nothing).
Seconded. I put Ubuntu on my laptop after FreeBSD 5 wouldn't behave.
It's Debian-based,
--- Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:34, Danial Thom
wrote:
--- Michael C. Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel
A.
wrote:
Hi Andy,
I am sorry for the trouble you have had
with
Hi Danial:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:44, Danial Thom wrote:
--- Miguel Saturnino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial Thom
wrote:
--- Michael C. Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 06:54, Daniel
A.
It is not clear to me who said this; whoever did gets my vote for
cheapest trick of the year.
This is the same kind of response I got when I asked for screen
alternatives. My grind is against Linux. Honestly, I hate linux. I
dont
have any real reasons for hating it, I just do, because Linux
One good alternative that no one has mentioned is PC-BSD. It is FreeBSD
that makes it very easy to set up a KDE desktop and install software.
It works very well indeed. Yes, it has issues with some of the plugins
at the moment (like FreeBSD) and java still has to be compiled. But the
--- Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Danial:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:44, Danial Thom
wrote:
--- Miguel Saturnino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 07:34 -0800, Danial
Thom
wrote:
--- Michael C. Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST)
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't expect you to care, but saying you
prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is better
are different animals. I just wanted to know what
you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do with
Windows. I already know
--- rod person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST)
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't expect you to care, but saying you
prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is
better
are different animals. I just wanted to know
what
you could do with FreeBSD
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:24 pm, rod person wrote:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST)
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't expect you to care, but saying you
prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is better
are different animals. I just wanted to know what
you could do
On 2005-12-24 07:34, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not just tell the truth, which is that Windows XP is the
best that you can do for the desktop, and that there is no
perfect solution that works perfectly in every scenario?
Because it's not the truth.
On 2005-12-24 09:16, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:34, Danial Thom wrote:
FreeBSD and Linux *should* focus on server functions,
because that is where MS is weak and that is where its
needed. There will likely
On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy to install/configure,
and infinitely cheaper.
Considering that WinXP usually comes on the computer, I don't see how
installing and configuring FreeBSD
On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:57 pm, Danial Thom wrote:
--- rod person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST)
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't expect you to care, but saying you
prefer FreeBSD and saying FreeBSD is
better
are different
People please,
I did not come in search of a debate as to which OS was better. I came in
Search of a newer or if
you will, another choice in an OS.
Two OS's which have been pointed out to me and look very promising are.
1. PC BSD
2. ALinux
Both offer a lot, and I know as many people do
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