Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: "Joel M. Fulton" <jfulton@e3tech.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would like comments and opinions regarding desktop OS switch Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108280842470.56857-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <03d201c12fcc$ce04a7d0$0801a8c0@corp.trigeo.com>
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> Did you begin using FreeBSD for politico-ethica-socio-spiritual reasons if > not, why did you begin using FreeBSD? I worked for one of the Core Team members. He introduced me to FreeBSD 2.2.5. Before that I had tried Linux off and on since Kernal version 0.97 or so. But I was never very impressed with it. I stayed with Windows 3.11/Dos for as long as possible. Investigated OS/Warp, but could never get it to work efficently even though my computer exceeded the minimum by a fair amount. (It was just to darn slow even then.) Even now though I still play to many games. I do too much tech support to make FreeBSD my main desktop machine. I'm forced to use Windows 2000 reluctantly, though I am working on making the one game I play a lot work under FreeBSD with VMWare or Wine. > What I am asking for reasons *to* move to FreeBSD and perhaps a contrast > between it and the Debian distribution. My only contrast between the two is that Linux (in general,) feels more slapstick to me. I run RedHat on a Sparc Server 20, with a 2nd machine that has NetBSD. The over all "feel" of *BSD is much more secure and friendly to me. (Not to mention faster on those paticular machines.) Granted Linux throws a lot at you right off the bat. I prefer to install what I need, not deinstall what I don't need. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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