From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 6 22:10:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7663F37B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010207061017.FSWN25489.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:10:17 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id AAA00885; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:14:36 -0600 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:14:35 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Mikael Claesson Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching from Linux Message-ID: <20010207001435.B877@home.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from miclaes@hotmail.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:02:24PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message