From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 23 14:51:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA23018 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsv-is.lifescan-can.com ([207.6.89.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22971 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:51:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from client46.lifescan-can.com (client46.lifescan-can.com [207.6.89.46]) by lsv-is.lifescan-can.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA10194 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609232149.OAA10194@lsv-is.lifescan-can.com> X-Sender: tbaird@lsv-is.lifescan-can.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: tbaird@lsv-is.lifescan-can.com (Tim Baird) Subject: Re: Information on FreeBSD Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >hello. I was wondering whether or not FreeBSD was something you could >use to replace Windows 95. depends on the job you want it to do I need to know if all Windows programs were >compatible with FreeBSD or any other UNIX based Operating Systems. Generally not >The reason for this is because many people have recommended OS'es like >FreeBSD and Linux to me and I would like to find a way to get Microsoft, >the most tyrannical company in the world, off of my computer. >Thank you, >Robert Roper > > Good luck, but I think that you are comparing apples and oranges...Win NT is the closest MS system that you would attempt to replace/substitute with an OS like FBSD or Linux. Think in terms of web servers, router/gateways , proxy servers, packet filtering, dial-up networking, and various other non-GUI type functions that make up the real world of systems management.