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#! rnews 2500 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!207.18.199.254!wotan.compaq.com!twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com!news From: "Andreas Hinterleitner" <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> Subject: FreeBSD v. Linux Message-ID: <01bc3ac7$63594930$232c3d9b@muna019> Sender: news@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com (System Administrator) Organization: Compaq Computer Corp. Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:57:41 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 155.61.44.35 Lines: 35 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37928 Okay, I know now that I can do some things to make the xconsole colored and customize the keyboard (and I've been told that FreeBSD is a robust kernel, it's up to me to adapt the utilities). I'm not a Unix guru (even don't pretend to be one). I started with Z80 asembler and C on M68k and came to Unix via DOS/Windows 95/NT, and I really like Linux and FreeBSD. That's why I want to know more about these OSs and how to customize them. FreeBSD, I mean, is the better way to do this, because it comes with just the basis, one has to do everything else by himself - that's what I want to do, and that's why I spend my time posting to this newsgroup and hoping that someone can give me some answer. BTW: thank you for all replies! The infos I have still leaves the following problems (wich I hope can be clarified by the knowledge of some real tough guys of you): - why /dev/console types everything to ttyv0 (why doesn't Linux do such things)? How can I change this behavior? - anyone can tell me where I can find complete sources to Open Look/Open View that compile under FreeBSD? - how do I make Midnight Commander work well with all keystrokes (mostly use CTRL+O (wich doesn't work at all, panels are gone, I cannot bring them back) and CTRL+ENTER (wich is just like ENTER alone on my terminal configuation)) - where can I get some information about what I have to define in termcap to match my keyboard? What are all the ESC-sequences? Is there a table wich sequence corresponds to wich scancode? Wich program shows me the keyboard scancodes or ESC-sequences? Finally I made XDM work the way I want it to, so I'm sure I can tweak also the rest of the system! - Luck is with the Brave - Andreas