From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 7:32: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 358CC37B406 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 07:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 4418 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 14:40:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 14:40:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1F8FE4.2B3DDE8@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:29:56 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Cc: PaxJanet@gateway.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD choices References: <3B1F8942.4A555539@wiegand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip wrote: > > Over a year ago I bought the Complete FreeBSD and installed it without > MS windoze, and have been quite happy ever since. I do have an old machine > in the corner with win98 that I very rarely use - the occasional modem dial-up I'm the same way ... I don't even have a Windows machine at home any more. However, many of my clients are unable to switch to FreeBSD because they run special applications written specifically for Windows, such as MS Access applications, etc. And hardcore gamers will be very disappointed to find that the latest release is not available for anything but Windows, although Loki Entertainment is working hard to change this! > Just remember, you won't be doing much gaming on the FBSD box, on a > handful of currant games work on it. To counter that (and even sound a little like a hypocrite) there are 377 free games in the ports collection. Multi-platform games (such as FreeCiv) seem to run much better on FreeBSD than on Windows. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message