Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:43:51 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... Message-ID: <199709011858.LAA17862@train.tgci.com> In-Reply-To: <199709010832.DAA00347@dyson.iquest.net> References: <3.0.2.32.19970901002444.00716c0c@pop.mindspring.com> from "J. Rasins" at "Sep 1, 97 00:24:44 am"
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> From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> > > > Actually, I think that the "best" solution is to put together a dual > motherboard box. Network them together with a samba server on the FBSD/Linux > motherboard. One day, the windows emulators might be good enough to "just > work". However, this will give you the day-to-day reliability of a U**X clone > providing file and networking services TODAY, with the ability to run > MS-OFFICE (which is the real draw/virus onto the Microsoft platform.) You can > even dual-boot the 2nd motherboard running the Microsoft based OS, since one > often boots the NT or Win95 system anyway. Then you can run U**X and X by > default, until you get that ugly Powerpoint file. One problem with > running WindowsNT and U**X side-by-side, is that it is easy to get used to > being able to heavly load a U**X system -- and then trying to heavily load NT, > and seeing the system hang/crash or whatever (OS Behaving Badly.) Or worse > (more often), being used to mouse focus on U**X (which I prefer), then getting > frustrated using NT's click-to-focus. That little utilty that allows tuning > the window manager to change focus method and other things never fully worked > on NT for me (the 95 version worked on 95 though.) > > I have been using the Laola package for .doc files to read, decode them, and > store them away in a more sane format. This at least gives some (a little) > independence from Microsoft tools: > > http://wwwwbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html > > -- > John > dyson@freebsd.org > jdyson@nc.com > This probably belongs on chat, but I can't resist: Put an smp board with a minimum of 2 PPros as an aide to keep NT somewhat on par with fbsd. And try to avoid apps that take it down! ;-) Riley >
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