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trc3:
Hello, well ive finally gotten myself away from that god afull "os" called windoze, but before this ive never had any contact with linux or unix except my mac with osX, i guess that kinda counts? whatever...basicly im lost ive installed freeBSD 4.5 on my 800mhz pc and i have no idea where to go from here. Really i just want to start the gnome or whatever GUI but i dont know how? Im not to into command line stuff, i dont mind it that much i just dont know the commands, although at heart im one of those point and click assholes. But i really dont like m$ so i decided to switch, plus it was only $15 and from what i know much more stable...I just need a little point in the right direction, i didnt have any money to buy any books on it i was hoping to find some stuff online. So basicly if anyone can tell me how to start one of the GUI's(when i start i get a prompt with  $ ,i fooled with the few commands i could figure out but i cant start a GUI) and also if anyone could point me in the direction of some good tutorials and that kind of stuff. Anyways thanks in advnce to anyone that can help or has any suggestions...

Calum:
hey! welcome to the forums! look forward to hearing from you, i don't have BSD myself so i'll be really interested to see what you think of it.

I only know a bit about linux, but much of it will apply, i'm sure one of the diehards will fill in the real details later on today.
try typing "startx" at the command prompt, and see what happens. if that doesn't work, try typing "whereis startx" which, i am guessing should tell you the full path to the application "startx", then type in the full path (eg '/usr/bin/startx' or wherever it is) and see if it runs.
There's a lot more stuff that could be said about getting the GUI to work in unix (and i haven't used BSD so i know little about your setup) so i'll let others fill in the specifics now.

seeya around trc3.

PS do you have some way i could get a copy of FreeBSD off you through the mail? i could send you a couple of blank CDs in exchange or something. I am in Scotland, are you close by? send me a PM please if you can be arsed copying BSD for me, ta...

[ April 19, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

trc3:
yea ive heard of redhat and thats its one of the more "point and click" freindly ones. But i wasnet really planning on buying a new os when i left my house, so i didnt put much thought into it, also they did have redhat but it was $70 and i dont have much money.

[ April 19, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:



If you are a point and click asshole and you insist on using *nux you should look into RedHat Linux or Mandrake Linux. Those are the most user friendly distros of *nix.
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aren't you a point and click asshole yourself, windowszombie48791961241314831285?
have you tried any distros of linux to test yr theory about red hat? sometimes it can be a bit weird, and i've heard many good things about SuSE and Mandrake too, as far as point and click goes.

Plus, if you could read and think at the same time, you will see he has BSD set up, and not linux. he does not want info on the best linux distro, he has got BSD already and wants to start using it. When you have OS specific info about BSD i will look forward to reading your further comments on the matter. Until then, fuck off.
oh yes, and, HAVE A NICE DAY!  :D   :D   :D

Calum:
fair comment, until the last paragraph, can't you commute without insulting people?

can you really do all the stuff with dos you can do with windows? how about burning a CD? hey, how about editing a 32bit colour image?
or a 16 bit stereo sound file?
what about editing scenes in a film?

remember, the X environment, and any window managers running on top of them are "command line" programs themselves. windows claims to be something more than a frontend for dos.

anyway, why don't you go and suck a thin man? ??

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