From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 22 14:53:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF0737B405 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (apparently) from equinox ([24.168.44.136]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:53:54 -0400 Message-ID: <002101c143b1$25012930$9865fea9@equinox> From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: , "Justin Davis" References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010922164012.00a951d0@www.programmerz.com> Subject: Re: to install or not to install.. Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:54:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, FreeBSD does have it's advantages, but I wouldn't neccessarily recommend it as a workstation OS unless you really knew what you were doing (or are a developer). -- Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Davis" To: Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 7:44 PM Subject: to install or not to install.. > Hi. I am currently running windows ME, which crashes all the time... I > built this computer about 6 months ago, here is a list of everything > Soundblaster motherboard > P3 900mhz > Creative dvd player > Yamaha 16x burner > sony usb mem stick reader/writer > GE Force 2 graphics card > > I want ME off of my computer, and am just going to format to do a clean > install. I'm not sure if i should try out FreeBSD, or install either win2k > pro, or XP. Any thoughts? This pc is used daily, and only rebooted about > twice a week. I'd just like what everyone wants, a stable,fast os. Thanks. > > -Justin D. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message