Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:16:09 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Geir Eivind Mork <gemork@online.no> Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970618201037.5048A-100000@shell1.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <199706181529.LAA24912@federation.addy.com>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: : >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 think that a lot of us got to this point through one common factor--frustration with Microsoft Windows (in its various incarnations). It's shortcomings were so obvious to me, I looked to the next best thing that would allow me to maintain some continuity. At the time, that was OS/2, due to its high level of Windows 3.1 compatibility. Of course, as IBM demonstrated repeatedly that they weren't interested in waging a serious battle over the desktop, I concluded that OS/2 was going the way of the Amiga and that it was time to move on. By this point, the free Unix systems (namely Linux and FreeBSD) had matured to a point of being ready for serious use by someone who didn't want to write kernel patches. Of course, history seems to indicate that the great technology is doomed to fail. (See preceding paragraph.) Let's just hope that never comes to pass with FreeBSD. K.S.
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