Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:12:23 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <19970618151223.08889@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <199706181529.LAA24912@federation.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 05:01:48PM %2B0000 References: <199706181529.LAA24912@federation.addy.com>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 05:01:48PM +0000, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > >From: "Geir Eivind Mork" <gemork@online.no> > >To: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> > >Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 13:48:25 +0100 > >X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 > >Subject: user of FreeBSD > > >I'm a user of FreeBSD (a quite new one too), > > I have seen several OS/2 users using/switching to FreeBSD (I am one > of them). I'm one of them, too (after a brief tour of Linux-land). OS/2 has a superior object oriented GUI, the server for which is multithreaded; X servers are not! (ready to receive technical FLAME if I'm mistaken). But I actually prefer off-the-shelf UNIX apps. > The one thing that I don't know if there is something as good in > FreeBSD as in OS/2 are email software. I use PmMail and soon to get > PMInews. From what I have heard the other email software for OS/2 are > algo great. > If you want the greatest e-mail system on earth (but non-gui), try MUTT (see /usr/ports/mail/mutt). If you want a very good gui e-mail system, try xfmail (/usr/ports again). -- Larry S. Marso lsmarso@panix.com
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