From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:38:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DFE16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0395143D3F for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:38:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 31B061C00091 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:38:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0D3051C000AB for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:38:17 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050215173817542.0D3051C000AB@mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:38:16 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <212629723.20050215183816@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <435651952.20050215001107@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:38:18 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > I initially ran a pirated copy of DOS on it (remember, at that time > MS wasn't selling DOS retail) but shortly after I got it up I switched > over to...drumroll > > Minix. Ah, but anything even remotely similar to UNIX would have been superior to MS-DOS, so that move would make perfect sense. The situation is different today. At times that I've only had one computer, it has always been a MS-DOS (in the olde days) or Windows computer. I was tempted to try OS/2 once, but OS/2 wasn't around long enough for me to change my mind, and it wasn't free. I recall using CP/M very briefly, long ago. I like FreeBSD because it gives me something nice to run as a server. Windows is too expensive and too bloated for server use. My oldest machine does indeed run Windows NT Server 4.0 (as a PDC, no less), but I never actually used it in a server capacity--I was just trying to foresee the unforeseeable. By the time I actually needed a server of my own, I had discovered FreeBSD. -- Anthony