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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 12:22:26 -0300
To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
From: Daniel <dguevel@infovia.com.ar>
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At 05:55 p.m. 03/06/00 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
.....
> > I visited the page about ports and it looks like there is a huge
> > number of
> > applications to use. Although, it seems FreeBSD requieres a bit more
> > knowledge than windows.
> >
>
>I don't know about THAT, but if you are stuck you're probably not going to
>point and click your way out, that's for sure.  :)


jaja...that is what I am afraid



> > Have you ever compared windows (definetively too much resources
> > consuming),
> > linux, FreeBeOS (i do not remember if tis one is open source, I
> > guess not)
> > to FreeBSD?
> >
>
>I wouldn't say that windows is any more of a resource hog than anything else
>under some conditions. Win98 is not the most stable OS in the world, but I
>have had good luck with it compared to win95 and win3.11  I have a lowly PII
>350 with 160 megs of ram and an ATI Rage Fury MAXX video card and win98
>flies right along while using a small percentage of my resources.


yes I like windows 98 too, but I hace a celeron 366 with 32 meg RAM, so it 
is far from fast.




>What in the world is FreeBeos?


a freeware OS from BE

try http://www.be.com/products/freebeos

Daniel



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