Re: some more BSD issues
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Date: 11/29/03
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:25:15 GMT
hannibal wrote:
> If I install a program from ports, where will this install? In windows
> the place where usually programs are installed is called 'Program
> files'. Is there a place like this in BSD?
Typically under /usr/local or /usr/X11R6 depending upon the port itself.
Do "man hier" for more explanation. Typically individual packages do
not install into separate directories as is often the case on Windows.
Packages may spread their files into a number of directories according
to the conventions laid out in "man hier". Programs themselves will
end up in "bin" directories, e.g. /usr/local/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin
whereas documentation, if it is installed, may end up under
/usr/local/share/doc. It depends on the port though.
> Also, why can I burn a cd, listen to xmms, surf the net with FreeBSd
> and with Windows when the cd writer is burning something everything
> gets dead slow?
Short answer is "better system resource allocation". The writing s/w
on Windows may be doing things to make it worse for the rest of the
system to work around certain issues in Windows that often causes
real-time operations such as CD burning to fail (even shorter answer
"Windows sucks at certain things").
> How can I change the screen resolution from FreeBSD (KDE)?
Look into configuring your X server (that should keep you busy for
a while :)
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