Re: i want to switch from windows to freebsd, please help me.

2003-07-13 Thread Kevin Berrien
I second on 4.8-stable. Been playing for FreeBSD for about a month now, but before I had a lot of hassles with 5, 5.1. I got the experience I expected using 4.8. I'd recommed FreeBSD 4.8 to you, since 5.1 has still some issues. Here is how to get FreeBSD:

i want to switch from windows to freebsd, please help me.

2003-07-12 Thread bob philituoy
i have used nothing but window OS's in my 16 year lifespan and am tired of it. right now i have a old sony vaio pcv-90 with win95 and a computer i built (1.8ghz P4 with windows xp pro soon to be dual booted with linux suse 8.1 pro) and wanted to find a version of unix i could try. i bought suse

Re: i want to switch from windows to freebsd, please help me.

2003-07-12 Thread Adam
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 20:34, bob philituoy wrote: i have used nothing but window OS's in my 16 year lifespan and am tired of it. right now i have a old sony vaio pcv-90 with win95 and a computer i built (1.8ghz P4 with windows xp pro soon to be dual booted with linux suse 8.1 pro) and wanted

Re: i want to switch from windows to freebsd, please help me.

2003-07-12 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, What do you version do you recomend for me to get since i am a major noob and do you recomend any reading materials? I'd recommed FreeBSD 4.8 to you, since 5.1 has still some issues. Here is how to get FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html

Re: i want to switch from windows to freebsd, please help me.

2003-07-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:34:19 -0700 (PDT) bob philituoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have used nothing but window OS's in my 16 year lifespan and am tired of it. right now i have a old sony vaio pcv-90 with win95 and a computer i built (1.8ghz P4 with windows xp pro soon to be dual booted with