confused FreeBSD entrant

Sunnz sunnzy at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 09:04:43 PDT 2007


It seems like you have a huge misunderstanding of what an OS is.

What are you trying to do? You said you are "opening up a small VoIP
project", so do you know what specific program that you need for your
project?

2007/8/23, yahya wafula <yawafula at hotmail.com>:
>
>    Hallo FreeBSD-Advocacy,
>    i write to you this mail hoping i find a solution on how i can use
>    this program which i've heard many individuals saying it has no
>    competitor on the market. well, sometime ago, i designed a plan to
>    open up a small VoIP project and i contacted one Interxchange company
>    who told me that i'd to install FreeBSD OS. without wasting time, i
>    downloaded the latest FreeBSD 6.2-i386. i even went to much extent by
>    ordering some two CDs from UK but then the major catastrophe faced me
>    on how the program works. after installation and also making a user
>    account i logged in but there was a message telling me to check for
>    newer errata files. i'm confused because first i can't see a desktop
>    despite me seeing how the desktop looks like at
>    [1]http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
>
>    what should i do and why are this endless errata messages coming my
>    way? how am i going to be able to see the desktop and work with the
>    program? how am i going to be able to install any other program on my
>    pc? do u've any solution to all these obstacles?
>
>    thanks alot with regards.
>    confused FreeBSD entrant
>
>    YAHYA WAFULA OJWANG
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> References
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>    1. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
>    2. http://g.msn.com/8HMBEN/2734??PS=47575
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