Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 04:48:31 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: "don't haveone" <hacked666@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910280438490.94554-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19991028032459.28146.rocketmail@web1605.mail.yahoo.com>
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>FreeBSD Programmers, > I am looking for a cross platform OS, but haven't >really found what I'm looking for yet. I use both Win >98.2 and Linux Mandrake 6.0. I have been reading about 6.0? Really? I had 6.0 and heard about terrible filesystem corruption bugs. Other than that, i loved mandrake. I tried upgrading, but RPM never convinced me things had been done right. >the BSDs and was wondering if FreeBSD is a good >desktop PC as well as a server. There is an article by wes peters at www.daemonnews.org on that very issue. If you can't find the article (there's only a year's worth of issues) i'll look and let you know where i saw it... >I have a Parrellel >Port Zip that Linux wont see, even when I try to force >it to, will FreeBSD configure an external zip? That's >really the only problem I have with Linux, other than Interestingly, i had the opposite problem. I got ZIP working fine in Linux, but i haven't gotten mine to work in FBSD yet. But i also have the new 250 meg version, so that makes a big difference. >and Windows is just not as stable as I want. Any Hear, hear ! >information that you think will help me in a decision >in choosing FreeBSD will be of great help. I am also Choose life ! Choose FreeBSD ! ;-) >Walnut Creek and know that FreeBSD is a lot cheaper >than Windows and also very hard to crash. Also, does Yes, but it can be done... ;-) >programs fom the internet? Sorry about the yahoo >acount, but I'm about to change ISPs and don't know >when it will take place. Hey, there's nothing wrong with Yahoo.. they run FreeBSD, remember? I have an account there as well... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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