Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 06:53:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD - I'm in love! Message-ID: <XFMail.980627065301.fewtch@serv.net>
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OK, so perhaps the title of this Email is a little "nerdish." But I've gotten to the point where I have fallen in love with this OS. I've never seen anything like this kind of power and configurability before, and so much quality software that's absolutely FREE. They say the best things in life are free, and I'm beginning to believe it. It's so seductive, I'm literally using Win95 or NT very little anymore. Therefore, it's time for some changes, so I'm going to be incommunicado for awhile: (1) I'm dedicating an entire 2.1 gig HD to FreeBSD (up from 1.3 gigs). This will require reinstalls of all three of my OS's, so I won't be around here for awhile. This will be an all-day project, at least, if not a 2-day project. (2) I'm going to replace some of my hardware on a gradual basis with hardware that is compatible with BSD, or encourage the manufacturers of the hardware to support BSD. The thing I miss the most is my sound card (I enjoy MIDI and Mpeg3 files); I can access my SparQ drive, scanner, and the fancier aspects of my printer from Win95 (although Shuttle Technologies makes the drivers for the Syquest SparQ, and I'm going to write to them and see if they have any hints/clues as to how I could access it from FreeBSD). So anyway... that's the story. I'll continue to have a multi-boot system, since there are some things I just can't do and software that's unavailable for BSD as of yet (for example, listening to MP3 music files, and software like Adobe Photoshop, MS Word, etc)... but I want to spend as much time as possible in BSD and dog these other OS's unless I require them. This OS is so much better than the Windows breed that it almost makes me want to sell off ALL my non-compatible hardware immediately and make an immediate, permanent switch. However, at this point that would be rash, and I have 4 gigs of HD space available, so multi-boot I remain (I'm sure most of you would agree that's wise at this point, and 2 gigs is plenty of space for FreeBSD and associated software). Goodbye until tomorrow, or 12-14 hrs. from now at least, while I make some major changes. Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Date: 27-Jun-98 Time: 06:39:26 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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