From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 8:37:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linuxmail.touchtunes.com (operator.touchtunes.com [216.94.139.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261E137B400 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:37:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunder.touchtunes.com (sunder.touchtunes.com [192.168.0.26]) by linuxmail.touchtunes.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA19379 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:37:40 -0500 Received: (from dinjo@localhost) by sunder.touchtunes.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FGbPF11636 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:37:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dinjo) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:37:25 -0500 From: Joel Dinel To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [dinjo: Re: FreeBSD] Message-ID: <20020215113725.A11607@sunder.touchtunes.com> Mail-Followup-To: Joel Dinel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Useless-Header: Look ma, it's a # sign! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 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 --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline -- Joel Dinel System Administrator TouchTunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. GnuPG key : http://darkhost.mine.nu:81/~joel/misc/mykey.asc --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:33:07 -0500 From: Joel Dinel To: Go Shag a donkey Up Yours Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020215113307.A11458@sunder.touchtunes.com> References: <20020215162032.13494.cpmta@c012.snv.cp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020215162032.13494.cpmta@c012.snv.cp.net>; from v1rus84@icqmail.com on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:20:32AM -0800 X-Useless-Header: Look ma, it's a # sign! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:20:32AM -0800, Go Shag a donkey Up Yours wrote: > > Im thinking of switching to FreeBSD, but a few things i wanna know and get straight.. > > 1) Can i run .exe files and my usual desktop software ? You can run .EXEs and *some* Win32 software using Wine, the Windows Emulator. Note, though, that FreeBSD is something entirely different from Windows. It's Unix. > 2) Can i quake 1 2 3 ? Most likely not. It's still possible, but you'll need to go through a lot of configuration and manual work to get Quake 1/2/3 running. FreeBSD's not aimed at games. > 3) Im a AOLer can i still have my AOL 128k ISDN on FreeBSD or will i need to get new stuff that suports it (if yes what) No. There's no AOL client for Unix. Doesn't look like there ever will be. You'd need to get a real internet account from a local ISP. > 4) Is it more secure then winblowz ME ? Infinitely. > 5) will there be anything out from u ppl that will let me run as many programs as winblowz? This list is run by and for users of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is not a company per se (like microsoft), so when you post here you reach users and developers of FreeBSD. > > spank you for your time.... please send me more info on FreeBSD or any other OS's that u may recomend. To tell you the truth, I don't think you want/need to run FreeBSD. Seems to me you use your PC mainly for games, and to browse around using AOL. FreeBSD is a UNIX descendent, and its primary role is to be a stable, secure, free and extremely reliable server platform. To sum things up even more, if you are comfortable/happy with Windows on your PC right now, and don't intend on using your PC as a server, or as a research/learning platform for UNIX, stick with what you have right now. Hope this clears up thing a bit for you. -- Joel Dinel System Administrator TouchTunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. GnuPG key : http://darkhost.mine.nu:81/~joel/misc/mykey.asc --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message