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Master of Reality:
if you really love redhat, have you tried mandrake?
Calum:
or slackware
preacher:
quote:Originally posted by purevil:
Does free BSD have good support and does it have a good number of apps like mp3 players and usual apps i.e. mail, web browser, office apps, the usual shit?
and i will be able to install linux apps like mozilla? If so then i believe i might have found a great os for me. but im not sure yet, is it easy to run for a noob unix nobody like myself? if not then how are the other distros for noobs? I know i want to get into something other than winderz on this box. I know unix is a stable beast "I have os x"
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Here is a warning with concern to FreeBSD, its not really a complaint but more of a gripe. I last used FreeBSD 4.7 so some of this may have changed. I was told that the FreeBSD installer was as easy to use as Slackware's, this is a bunch of shit. FreeBSD is an enormous bit harder to install than any distro of linux ive tried. As an example, I found no where in the install where I could set up dhcp. Im going through every little configuration option 10 times over trying and can never find it. Also the configuration of X windows is overly complicated in the FreeBSD install. I didnt install KDE because I installed it on a real old machine, but nowhere in the install could I set the default window manager. So here I am stuck in twm which might I add is probably the least user friendly window manager. I would not suggest installing FreeBSD without help if you are a first time *nix user, unless you want to go crazy. After the install it ran smooth as silk, but it is missing some of the user friendliness that current commercial linux distros offer. Basically, if you are a complete noob avoid this unless you are an adventurer and like spending long amounts of time figuring out how to do things(most of us *nix users are like this).
Also I dont see how the freeBSD installer is superior to Apt.
Refalm:
Mandrake or Fedora. FreeBSD is for super-humans.
M51DPS:
FreeBSD was considered stable enough to be a subsystem in Mac OS X, that should give you a clue. But it all depends on if you can actually use it. Like they said, something else might be easier
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