Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:16:36 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Jeremy Falcon" <jeremy@intersurf.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OSes Message-ID: <000201bf9724$3f34b960$5c9dc5d1@webserver>
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On Saturday, March 25, 2000 2:56 PM Jeremy Falcon wrote: >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. Thanks! I think I'll wait and see about BeOS, like I'm doing re FBsd 4.0R. A sucker-for-punishment I'm not ;^) -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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