<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Probably but in my opinion FreeBSD is not a desktop OS. Setting up a GUI is a royal pain.<div><br><div><div>On Feb 21, 2014, at 11:13 PM, paul g <<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr">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.<br><br><div>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com">ryanjcole@me.com</a><br>> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 22:30:09 -0600<br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use?<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> You’d think spending years as a copy editor I’d remember that one… almost always gets past me. Thanks :)<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> 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.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> 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.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:19 PM, <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com">tclug@freakzilla.com</a> wrote:<br>> > He'd be the one inferring, you'd be implying (;<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > 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 (;<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > We're all here to answer questions, especially Ryan q:<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Ryan Coleman wrote:<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> >> Wow… I never said that, Paul. I never even came close to inferring it.<br>> >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:10 PM, paul g <<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> >> I know now that the aptitude purge command is different than the<br>> >> dpkg purge command. Do you think that I am to dumb to use<br>> >> Debian? I guess I never went to a university and my mind is not<br>> >> very fast. Oh well this is a wonderful helpful user group<br>> >> though. I would like to someday know how to actually use a<br>> >> computer and write drivers. It takes alot of skill to be where<br>> >> you are all at. I just want a chance. I get so confused.<br>> >><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> >> Thank You.<br>> >> ____________________________________________________________________________<br>> >> From: <a href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com">ryanjcole@me.com</a><br>> >> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:54:32 -0600<br>> >> To: <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>> >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for<br>> >> basic use?<br>> >><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> >> My point, which I failed to make, (BAD RYAN) was there’s really<br>> >> no such thing "as over my head” in this world. If you have<br>> >> someone willing to lead you through the doors you need you’ll be<br>> >> perfectly fine. I also forgot on the list CentOS and Fedora.<br>> >> Rarely I’ve been asked to touch an AUX box.<br>> >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com">ryanjcole@me.com</a>><br>> >> wrote:<br>> >><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> >> I started in the days of non-auto-fetching RPMs and RedHat<br>> >> 4.2 in 1999. After a hacking in 2002 and Earthlink’s lack<br>> >> of interest in enforcing their terms of service I switched<br>> >> over to BSD.<br>> >> I occasionally use SUSE, Ubuntu and RHLE installations these<br>> >> days but I’m still a BSD user. Primarily because my machines<br>> >> don’t need GUIs. Then again, I’ve never been one to use the word<br>> >> “noob” for anything other than smoting when I played WOW and<br>> >> Halo.<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> > <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>> > <a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>