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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?  :-)
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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