From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 24 17:38:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07688 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from junior.apk.net (stuart@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07648 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@junior.apk.net) Received: from localhost (stuart@localhost) by junior.apk.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA06792; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis Reply-To: Stuart Krivis To: Rainer M Duffner cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windoze vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Rainer M Duffner wrote: > Naaa, it's all so easy - point and click.... > > > Another major plus for X is it's ability to run reasonably well on low spec > > machines. > > Or to have a full OS, without a GUI..... > I like to boot the Win95-PCs at our computer-lab with the PicoBSD > boot-floppy and turn them into little FreeBSDs ;-) > At least, a stable telnet implementation ! The QNX demo is really good for this too. They crammed an incredible amount of stuff on a single floppy. I wish someone would package it with a cheap machine and sell it as an Internet appliance type of thing. It would be much better than all the Windows nightmares out there. -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message