<html><head><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;">Run like hell away from FreeBSD - it’s a lot harder than you want.<div><br></div><div>The learning curve on it is huge - and you can choose to not reply to me all you want but I’m one of the top people here on BSD. I’m a user of BSD since 2002 and I’m slowly migrating away to Ubuntu because it simply does not do what I need.</div><div><br></div><div>A few basics: You need the Ports. If you didn’t install them you need to get them from the FreeBSD mirrors.</div><div>Then install portupgrade</div><div>Then install nano</div><div>Then install bash</div><div>And then install Webmin </div><div>(all of these are in ports)</div><div><br></div><div>Now learn about services - the are not run the same as any Linux OS I’ve ever used (this is not Linux, it’s BSD - one of the closest to Unix than you’ll find in the wild).</div><div><br></div><div>Your services are run in /etc/rc.conf but your conf files are almost all in /usr/local/etc/ (unless it’s system-level).</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Reminder: I don't reply to top-posters here.<br></div></blockquote></div><div>You can take my advice or ignore it, I don’t care. </div><div><br></div><div>—</div><div>Ryan</div><div>Admin of FreeBSD since 5.2</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 5, 2014, at 15:42, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div></div>After reading about kqueues on a Boost mailing list, <br>I've decided to install FreeBSD on a machine and<br>try to port my code generator from Linux to FreeBSD.<br>
<br>I've installed FreeBSD and it runs. Now I'm trying<br>to figure out how to install xfce and get gcc and some<br>other tools installed. What do you suggest?<br></div><br></div><div>Sendmail is running on the box. The installer asked if <br>
I wanted to start sshd or not, but I didn't see anything <br>about sendmail. Why does it start sendmail? Thanks.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Reminder: I don't reply to top-posters here.<br><br><div dir="ltr">
Brian<br>Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust.<br><a href="http://webebenezer.net/" target="_blank">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br><br><br><br></div>
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