From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 18 06:44:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05255 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05228 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup509.serv.net [207.207.70.74]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA22324 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980618064338.007f1100@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:43:38 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Major hardware reorganization... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK... I've completely reorganized my hardware. I've consolidated both 2 gig drives into my main PC and decided to lose the Ethernet and the 2nd PC entirely. Amazing how it's speeded up my PC not having all those extra network protocols hanging around and being burdened by old 3c503 network cards. So anyway, FreeBSD is now on my main machine with a modem, and after a bit of fooling around, I now have the ppp command working using ppp -background on-demand dialing. Works like a charm, but took some research (as everything new you do in FreeBSD does). So perhaps I will begin using W95 less and BSD/Xfree86 more now... or perhaps I won't, depends :-) I go through software and OS phases, and this is a triple boot machine - I have Win95, NT workstation and FreeBSD installed on it. We'll see which I gravitate toward. So far, Win95 is the only OS that supports all my hardware, and for certain operations is the fastest (it definitely boots the quickest of the 3 OS's, BSD second, Win NT third). As far as hardware support goes, Win95 wins by a mile, NT is second, and FreeBSD a distant third. As far as multitasking power and stability go though, there's no question as to which of the three wins... I'll bet you can all guess which OS that is.. :-) -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message