Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:49:31 -0700 (PDT) From: tbaird@lsv-is.lifescan-can.com (Tim Baird) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Information on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199609232149.OAA10194@lsv-is.lifescan-can.com>
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>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.
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