From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 13:16:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29998 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:16:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.04 #7) id 0zO60d-0003si-00; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:04:31 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:04:31 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Joe Raine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall? Message-ID: <19980929210431.C14840@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199809290400.OAA20985@oznet14.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199809290400.OAA20985@oznet14.ozemail.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Raine wrote: > It looks like FreeBSD is fast and efficient. Correct :-) > 1. Is the learning curve horrendous for someone who is only versed in DOS > and Windows? No. At least, it wasn't for me. YMMV, of course. It may be steep at first, I've heard some people say it's vertical, but after using it for a few months you should pick things up fairly quickly. I've been using FreeBSD for about 5 months, so I'd still consider myself a newbie compared with others here, and I still learn new things all the time. But I don't find much of it difficult, and that's the important bit. > 2. Will there be any compatibility problems integrating a FreeBSD machine > into a Win'95 peer-to-peer network? Probably, considering win95 isn't even compatible with itself. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message