From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 4 8:31: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infoviaplus.net.ar (adv19.infoviaplus.net.ar [200.9.212.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FD337B50C for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 08:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dguevel@infovia.com.ar) Received: from default ([200.41.100.87]) by infoviaplus.net.ar (Tid InfoMail Exchanger v2.20) with SMTP id #960132806.018990002; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:33:26 -0300 Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000604121651.00bc39b0@mail.infovia.com.ar> X-Nil: X-Nil: Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 12:22:26 -0300 To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> From: Daniel <dguevel@infovia.com.ar> Subject: RE: size Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <NEBBIJCLELPGBFNNJOFHEEGCCBAA.jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> References: <4.3.1.0.20000603000029.00be2670@mail.infovia.com.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Infomail-Id: 960132806.076B02AC1E03A0.12806 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message