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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:14:35 -0600
From:      "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
To:        Mikael Claesson <miclaes@hotmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Switching from Linux
Message-ID:  <20010207001435.B877@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <F96lWjOgZ8G00udy4ja00012543@hotmail.com>; from miclaes@hotmail.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM %2B1100
References:  <F96lWjOgZ8G00udy4ja00012543@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +1100, Mikael Claesson wrote:
> I've been using Linux as a desktop system for some time now, but I'm getting 
> interested in BSD. What you should have is a big fat link on your front page 
> that reads "Using Linux? Wanna switch?" and a nice section on the 
> differences a resular user would need to know.
> 
> Me, I'd like to know if I can still use Gnome, XMMS, Mozilla and all the 
> other things I've gotten used to. I'd never switch if I'd have to give any 
> of them up.

Yes you can use all of those. However, Linux's multimedia capabilities
are slightly superior to those of FreeBSD. FreeBSD has been developed to
function primarily as a server OS.
-- 
Victor R. Cardona 
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