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[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Patrick Rooney wrote:

>Want to give it a try!
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Good for you!

>Very experienced with all versions of windows, have been building computers for 15 years..
>Sick of the windows restrictions.....
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You mean "where do you want to go today"
didn't get you there? ;-)

>What am I in for??????????????????
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A good user community, a stable OS, more
learning about computers (yup!) and plenty
of reading, see below... a bit more care in how
things are done, faster patches for security
issues, but more work tweaking to get things
to run the way *you* want them too...

>Have tried many versions of Linux.....There are too many anymore.....
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Yep, I decided that when I saw "Chainsaw Linux..." :-)

>Where is a good place to start?
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5.2-RELEASE. Grab the floppies from ftp.freebsd.org
and install over the 'Net.

>What's a good read to get up 2 speed???????
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http://www.freebsd.org/handbook

>thanks
>pjr
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Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.