From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 8:59:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB15637B401 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB3B918EA; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B279118E9; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:59:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: "Joel M. Fulton" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would like comments and opinions regarding desktop OS switch In-Reply-To: <03d201c12fcc$ce04a7d0$0801a8c0@corp.trigeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Did you begin using FreeBSD for politico-ethica-socio-spiritual reasons if > not, why did you begin using FreeBSD? I worked for one of the Core Team members. He introduced me to FreeBSD 2.2.5. Before that I had tried Linux off and on since Kernal version 0.97 or so. But I was never very impressed with it. I stayed with Windows 3.11/Dos for as long as possible. Investigated OS/Warp, but could never get it to work efficently even though my computer exceeded the minimum by a fair amount. (It was just to darn slow even then.) Even now though I still play to many games. I do too much tech support to make FreeBSD my main desktop machine. I'm forced to use Windows 2000 reluctantly, though I am working on making the one game I play a lot work under FreeBSD with VMWare or Wine. > What I am asking for reasons *to* move to FreeBSD and perhaps a contrast > between it and the Debian distribution. My only contrast between the two is that Linux (in general,) feels more slapstick to me. I run RedHat on a Sparc Server 20, with a 2nd machine that has NetBSD. The over all "feel" of *BSD is much more secure and friendly to me. (Not to mention faster on those paticular machines.) Granted Linux throws a lot at you right off the bat. I prefer to install what I need, not deinstall what I don't need. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message