I just want a system that I can use for general purpose stuff (playing multimedia, syncing my PDA)... using Fedora Core 1 on this machine turned out to be too hard for some of this stuff. Since I'm no computer geek, I often find myself in RPM hell and .
Windows would be a perfect system, except I can't change stuff in it very easily. If I had emacs, could configure everything from a shell, and could run shell scripts, then I would be pretty happy to run Windows. Its design faults would be irrelevant to me.
Any good reason for me to try BSD? Would I need to back up my file system, or does it just stay where it is?
If you ever have to fiddle around with the kernel, FreeBSD will save you quite a bit of time and hassle. Linux's kernel compilation procedures are a baroque monstrosity that have left a sour taste in my mouth. I should temper this by noting that there are more binary only drivers for various distributions of linux.
I don't see why I would ever need to fiddle around with the kernel. As far as OSes are concerned, I'm a user first and foremost. As long as my system works well, I'll only hack it for customization purposes, and only if it doesn't involve drudgery, ugly code or reading boring manuals.
is your wireless device wlan0 or eth1 or what? /sbin/iwconfig should tell you. ifdown ; ifup is the canonical way to restart, but /etc/init.d/networking restart should be equivalent.
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Date: 2006-01-18 09:12 pm (UTC)/sbin/ifup wlan0
maybe.
(obreligiouscommentary: use freebsd if you can. linux was designed by monkeys)
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Date: 2006-01-18 09:25 pm (UTC)Windows would be a perfect system, except I can't change stuff in it very easily. If I had emacs, could configure everything from a shell, and could run shell scripts, then I would be pretty happy to run Windows. Its design faults would be irrelevant to me.
Any good reason for me to try BSD? Would I need to back up my file system, or does it just stay where it is?
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Date: 2006-01-19 12:14 am (UTC)Linux's kernel compilation procedures are a baroque monstrosity that have left a sour taste in my mouth. I should temper this by noting that there are more binary only drivers for various distributions of linux.
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Date: 2006-01-19 08:56 am (UTC)As far as OSes are concerned, I'm a user first and foremost. As long as my system works well, I'll only hack it for customization purposes, and only if it doesn't involve drudgery, ugly code or reading boring manuals.
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Date: 2006-01-18 09:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-19 04:01 pm (UTC)ifdown ; ifup is the canonical way to restart, but /etc/init.d/networking restart should be equivalent.
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Date: 2006-01-19 07:04 pm (UTC)Thanks! /sbin/ifup eth1 worked.