Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:47:46 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat sriyotha <pirat@oaep.go.th> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616101854.13876A-100000@prime.oaep.go.th> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615175855.007f0250@mx.serv.net>
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hi, On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > Go to http://www.tucows.com and http://www.shareware.com. > many thanks indeed Tim. > > That's why my 'main' machine is still a Windows machine. Some in the list > don't understand it and think it makes more sense to put BSD on the more > powerful machine, and relegate Windows to the back burner. > my main reason in using FreeBSD is that 486 cpu is too powerfull to stay with dos. i do not dislike or hate dos, please keep me in your list Tim, but i serveral times, no very often face a problem of insufficient memory in a dual pentium 90 machine with 32 meg ram and 2.1 gig hard disk that runs just microsoft word or excel on dos. btw, thos are useful now for some one that use microsoft office. and i also some time have to go to that machine for print some dot ps document that i generated in my freebsd machine. > > Also, driver availability and hardware support are *very* important to > me, and on my main machine, most of my hardware would be unsupported. > yes, yes yes i went to mad quite often in finding some drivers when using out of date dos application. > >Thirdly, I'm a programmer, and I might want to make money at it sometime. > me too, but for hobby. no one denies money anyway. if programming could make some 'satang', money in my words, i should do it for my kids. > > Any suggestions on how to better divide the disk up should I ever decide to > re-install again (most likely I will be, closer and closer to perfection > every time) let me know via Email at fewtch@serv.net and/or the mailing > list - thanks. > as i know, we should not put /usr and /var on the same partition. beware of /etc/passwd file that one shall make hard link to dead letter just for root shell. that's all i know. and apologize for my ability in using english. regards, psr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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