Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:14:35 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: Mikael Claesson <miclaes@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching from Linux Message-ID: <20010207001435.B877@home.com> In-Reply-To: <F96lWjOgZ8G00udy4ja00012543@hotmail.com>; from miclaes@hotmail.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM %2B1100 References: <F96lWjOgZ8G00udy4ja00012543@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +1100, Mikael Claesson wrote: > I've been using Linux as a desktop system for some time now, but I'm getting > interested in BSD. What you should have is a big fat link on your front page > that reads "Using Linux? Wanna switch?" and a nice section on the > differences a resular user would need to know. > > Me, I'd like to know if I can still use Gnome, XMMS, Mozilla and all the > other things I've gotten used to. I'd never switch if I'd have to give any > of them up. Yes you can use all of those. However, Linux's multimedia capabilities are slightly superior to those of FreeBSD. FreeBSD has been developed to function primarily as a server OS. -- Victor R. Cardona GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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