Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:01:27 -0600 From: "Jeremy Falcon" <jeremy@intersurf.com> To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OSes Message-ID: <003101bf96a5$ac277320$818f73d8@win98> References: <000401bf9604$c4d6a4a0$2c9ac5d1@webserver>
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Well, I can't speak for everyone here, but I feel like it's better for problems and answers to remain public, that way it could possibly help more than one person. In that respect, I'll do what I can to answer your question, but not in private conversation. In short, FreeBSD and the BeOS are on two different leauges. They were intened to serve different purposes and founded on different ideas. FreeBSD wants to be BSD-like, stable, secure, free, etc. and for what it's intended I believe you can't find a better OS on the market. I'm not a UNIX guru yet, but the more I use it the more I love it (more than Linux). I'm sure others here feel the same way too. :o) The BeOS is also a great OS, but it's intentions are a lot different than FreeBSD's. From the ground up, Be Inc. wanted to build an OS targeting multimedia. While it doesn't support the majority of hardware, for what it does support it does well. But, several things need to happen before it can compare to Windows... Needs support for more hardware. Be needs to make more people aware of it. Needs more applications for it. Learning the BeOS is not harder than learning Windows for the first time, so that's not an issue. But for the average Joe, buying new hardware (b/c his OEM went cheap and used soft hardware, etc.) is out of the question just to get an OS to work properly. Of course, hardware manufacturers usually design hardware with Windows in mind, but if Be Inc. gets a better market share (catch 22), I'm sure they'll have BeOS in mind too. On a side note, what I really like about the BeOS is that it uses bash for it's console instead of a DOS-like get up. :o) If you want a taste of BeOS without buying then get the free/light version first. Hope this helps, Jeremy L. Falcon P.S. Just so y'all know, the reason I replied to a BeOS question on here was b/c it was in comparision to FreeBSD. I don't intend to get off topic. ;o) > Would you please get in touch with me privately please, if any of you > have a "working" knowledge of BeOS. I visited their site and now have > a sense of BeOS's "look & feel", but have no idea as to whether ot not > it's an OS in the same league as FBSD et al, or win9x etc. Tia.... > > -duke > > > >> I am interested in installing several operating systems on my personal > >> computer. I just purchased a 27 GB hard drive and I plan to partition it to > >> hold some or all of the following: Windows 98 and 2000, Gentus and RedHat > >> 6.1 Linux, BeOS 4.5 or 5.0, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD. I was looking for any > >> input on the best way to partition the drive, in which order i should install > >> the OSes, and what boot manager is best to use. > > >You need to install the Micro$oft ones first, commercial ones next, > >free ones last. There are a few boot managers around, the one that I > >most prefer is OS-BS Beta. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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