From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 12:33:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.mail.pciwest.net (s1.mail.pciwest.net [64.5.1.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AB2037B951 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhoward@fidelity.presys.com) Received: (qmail 15280 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2000 19:33:27 -0000 Received: from pppc-64-5-9-167.lakeview.pciwest.net (HELO fidelity.presys.com) (rhoward@64.5.9.167) by presys.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2000 19:33:27 -0000 Message-ID: <395118FD.C15239DA@fidelity.presys.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:35:25 -0700 From: Bob Howard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-storm i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am an older dude that has spent his life in the computing world... going all the way back to vacuum tube computer days. Anyway, I run a one man computer consultancy in the high desert country of Oregon in the USA. Last year I got my belly full of MS and attendant baloney so I started looking at Linux. Seven distros later I am a little more knowledgeable, but concerned... my goal is a rock stable OS for a workstation that makes my speakers speak, play an occasional game, and allows me a platform from which to operate and to convert windows folks to. People are voicing concern that Linux is likely to be fractured... this newbie's view is that it already has... Is FreeBSD, in your opinion, the OS that I am looking for, for both me and my clients? I want to run KDE and have life be sane and stable. Your response is appreciated in advance... Bob H Fidelity Computer Services http://fidelity.presys.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message