From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 28 09:40:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16865 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16803 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA00416; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:43:38 -0700 From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: David Wolfskill cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What tipped the balance In-Reply-To: <199807281557.IAA00215@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > As for FreeBSD... well, here at work is the only time I've used it. I > still find PC hardware significantly more challenging than I think any > hardware has any right to be. I can certainly agree with that! At work, I admin Solaris and IRIX machines...There are, of course, difficulties, but the hardware is really worth the extra money, IMHO. My only (personal) FreeBSD machine is one that I built from used parts for under $300...Actually, that's my only piece of PC hardware period. In my house, there are several other FreeBSD boxes. One is our gateway to the Internet. But those all belong to my roommaters. I run LinuxPPC on one of my Macs (I'd love to have a *BSD, but Linux is the only choice), and it's pretty good. At least at the hardware level, it's about as easy to deal with as any of the Suns we have. Macs have OpenFirmware, which is *extremely* similar to the rom monitor on the Suns, which no PC can think of matching. A little extra $$$ for non-PC hardware is always worth it if you can afford it. Now, we just need to get FreeBSD running on some better hardware, and we'll be set :-) sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"It's not a habit, it's cool. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | I feel alive." NeXTMail OK! | --k's Choice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message