From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 21:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat198.40.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.198.40]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874483DD8 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:11:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA17460; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:10:38 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:10:38 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Sanson Volmark , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD replace win95? In-Reply-To: <00020118340701.00329@gunnar.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been working with some ppl at the office who are 'WinDoze' users, and have been able to meet most of their demands ... the latest difficult one has been plug-ins for Netscape ... I'm cheating though. Upgrading them all to 4.0, installing VMWare with Win95 just so that they can run Netscape with their PlugIns *grin* At least when they get the "blue screen of death", they won't have to reboot their computer, just kill a window :) On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold wrote: > The only things i still use Win98 for are: > > ATAPI CD-RW (haven't got the bugs worked out of that yet) > USB Scanner (recognized, though) > USB Camera (got that rec'g too) > Games (anyone porting Descent 3?) > > BTW, Descent 3 comes with a dedicated linux server installationon the retail CD! > > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Sanson Volmark [000131 03:11] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > dear Sirs > > > > > > I'm very interested to know if it's possible to use freeBSD instead of > > > Windowx 98. > > > > Generally yes, do you have any specific tasks you want FreeBSD to do? > > see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ > > > > -Alfred > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > I used to be self-actualized, now I'm just confused. > > Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold > The Pagan Library > http://www.paganlibrary.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message