Probably but in my opinion FreeBSD is not a desktop OS. Setting up a GUI is a royal pain. On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:13 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > Ryan can I run an older p3 system with a ralink wireless card? Using Free BSD . I should be quiet now I know your time is important. > > > From: ryanjcole at me.com > > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 22:30:09 -0600 > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use? > > > > You’d think spending years as a copy editor I’d remember that one… almost always gets past me. Thanks :) > > > > I’ve been helped so much by my mentor that I do what I can to help others out. I don’t find questions as too stupid, moronic or uninvited… and I have no patience for people that belittle others in that manner - just pull up the general questions list for pfSense. I have limited interest in working with AHs when I can avoid it. > > > > I was just pointing out that there’s no mountain so high you cannot climb it when it comes to a basic install. If you are going into the deeper stuff like I work on (DNS, LDAP, FTP, SQL, etc.) there might as well be and with that you definitely want someone to bounce questions off of. > > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:19 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > > He'd be the one inferring, you'd be implying (; > > > > > > Paul, I never went to university either. Well, I went to them, but I wasn't registered. I just used to sneak into the computer labs and play around on the internet. I didn't have a choice, there were no ISPs back then! That's really how I got into UNIX, watching other people using SunOS and IRIX and playing on the NeXTStations and I'm totally dating myself now, aren't I (; > > > > > > We're all here to answer questions, especially Ryan q: > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > > > >> Wow… I never said that, Paul. I never even came close to inferring it. > > >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:10 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> I know now that the aptitude purge command is different than the > > >> dpkg purge command. Do you think that I am to dumb to use > > >> Debian? I guess I never went to a university and my mind is not > > >> very fast. Oh well this is a wonderful helpful user group > > >> though. I would like to someday know how to actually use a > > >> computer and write drivers. It takes alot of skill to be where > > >> you are all at. I just want a chance. I get so confused. > > >> > > >> Thank You. > > >> ____________________________________________________________________________ > > >> From: ryanjcole at me.com > > >> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:54:32 -0600 > > >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for > > >> basic use? > > >> > > >> My point, which I failed to make, (BAD RYAN) was there’s really > > >> no such thing "as over my head” in this world. If you have > > >> someone willing to lead you through the doors you need you’ll be > > >> perfectly fine. I also forgot on the list CentOS and Fedora. > > >> Rarely I’ve been asked to touch an AUX box. > > >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> I started in the days of non-auto-fetching RPMs and RedHat > > >> 4.2 in 1999. After a hacking in 2002 and Earthlink’s lack > > >> of interest in enforcing their terms of service I switched > > >> over to BSD. > > >> I occasionally use SUSE, Ubuntu and RHLE installations these > > >> days but I’m still a BSD user. Primarily because my machines > > >> don’t need GUIs. Then again, I’ve never been one to use the word > > >> “noob” for anything other than smoting when I played WOW and > > >> Halo. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140222/09d383a7/attachment.html>