From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 14:04:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14117 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 14:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from happy.firstnethou.com (happy.firstnethou.com [206.42.12.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14055 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 14:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ballhog by happy.firstnethou.com via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042/940406.SGI) for id QAA24816; Tue, 13 May 1997 16:03:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3378D926.1193@firstnethou.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 16:12:06 -0500 From: ballhog Reply-To: ballhog@firstnethou.com Organization: Ballhog Sports X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, i wsa told about your FreeBSD software by someone i met on the net. I didn't exactly find the information i was looking for while reading your FAQ's and About FreeBSD, pages, and was wondering if you could help clear a few things up. I am currently running Win95, what i would like to know is, why would i want to change OS's? I know win95 has some quirks, but i also know it worked fine. I would also like to know, would FreeBSD be able to run normal dos based software, i am assuming it won't since it is UNIX based. If it can't, then what exactly should i get FreeBSD for? This is my situation, i am ALLWAYS on the net, i'n sort of hooked. I also play lot's of games via network card with my roomate, ie... Warcraft, Diablo' Domm etc.. etc.. I would like to remain able to connect to the internet and run Netscape etc... and play those games etc... and i just bought a Connectix Quickcam for use with CuSeeMe, so i would really like to continue enjoying these things. Can FreeBSD do any of this? and in your honest opinion, should i trash Win95 and go with FreeBSD? I'm open-minded, i'll try anything if it will work with all the things i like to do. Thanx' for your help. Gene Faull