From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 24 6:30:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE3F37B403 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 06:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 17BF9R-0006Pn-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 May 2002 14:30:37 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g4ODUb167866 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 May 2002 14:30:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:30:36 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I went to a 'LAN party' the other night, as I have been told they are officially called. A few friends of mine in networking get together regularly in a basement chock full of routers, servers, and NIC cards. The guy who organizes it is a Cisco/NT networking admin, and definitely has a nice set up. They invited me over to help them all get familiar with Unix. Well, I have only used my P2-266 for dialup and a DHCP client at work. But connecting to my friend's network was a breeze as expected. But they were all blown away by how fast Netscape on FreeBSD worked. My machine blew away a P3-500 running Windows. I'm sure having 160 megs of RAM didn't hurt, but it was nice to be reminded how well BSD performs in comparison to the majority leaders. NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world- those who understand binary, and those who don't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message