At 12:51 AM 7/31/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On 30 Jul 98, at 20:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I hope it was a late release of RH 5.1, as the early ones were
>> incredibly buggy, over 80 megabytes of patch files. I went back to
>> running RH 5.0. I might consider 5.2 after it has been out a while.
>
>Well I had trouble doing many things with RH5.0 and that is one
>reason why I bought the 5.1. It is working fine.
I love my FreeBSD machine. I haven't had to do too many patches
(only security ones) and it is so nice to have it being the
router in my home office (and also the dialer to my ISP). I
haven't had any problems with it.
>> To those who haven't tried Linux, it might be worth doing so, though
>> it may take a month to get use to it if you are a really dyed in the wool
>> Windows user. Unix is a little harder to use, but a LOT more powerful! I
>> use my notebook machine as a portable web server wherever I go.
>
>Harder to use but so many more options. Your only excuse is
>ignorance. You cannot blame anyone or any company. I happen to
>be a big fan of BSD as my host uses it and everything seems to
>always work there.
Ditto. Linux, I will admit, is better for windowphiles. It is
very GUI organized (while FreeBSD is more command line oriented).
Another way to think of Windows/UNIX is the windows slogan "Where
do you want to go today ?", vs. "How do I want to get there today
?" As with Windoze vs. Mac you will have Linux vs. FreeBSD
>I still have much to learn. I installed Netscape but the only way I
>know to start it is open a shell, go to the netscape directory and
>type ./netscape. Now I have a shell window and netscape running.
>Must be another way.
You could make a small script that runs on reboot (making sure
you use SU or chuser to change it from root to a non root user)
that starts netscape (just make sure you use "./netscape &" to
force it into the background.
Matt Soffen
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Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
- Dilbert -
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