Re: Convince me

2007-08-09 Thread Mary Evans
Latitude wrote: > I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have > to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows > users of how easy the switch may be. I get knee-deep in FreeBSD jargon > the second I get to your webpage. I need to see an overwhelm

Three things . . .

2007-08-13 Thread Mary Evans
1: OS X (Leopard) due out in September has been declared to be Unix. Here's a link to a slash dot article. (I first saw it on Tech Net, I think, but couldn't find the reference.) http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/01/123258&from=rss So to the guy who wants to be convinced, what

How Swe-e-e-et It Is!!

2007-08-26 Thread Mary Evans
This is for anybody struggling with FreeBSD who might need some encouragement. I wanted to install nxserver from Nomachine.com. There is a port of the sources, along with an open-source implementation of the rest of it. I have been trying to make the &^^%$!!! thing work for [pick a big number. .