From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 19 23:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zihua.swbell.net (adsl-64-123-14-11.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [64.123.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC3E37B402 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cmconn@localhost) by zihua.swbell.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0K7sKt02778; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:54:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cmclist@swbell.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zihua.swbell.net: cmconn set sender to cmclist@swbell.net using -f From: Christopher Mark Conn MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14953.17451.683359.681017@zihua.swbell.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:54:19 -0600 To: Kevin Brunelle Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finally took the plunge In-Reply-To: <3A693DD0.603CC6E3@netzero.net> References: <3A693DD0.603CC6E3@netzero.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.77 under Emacs 20.7.2 Reply-To: cmclist@swbell.net Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Well, after 4 1/2 years with FreeBSD, > > I finally decided to do it: I hosed > > my Windows installation, reformatted my > > discs in "dangerously dedicated" > > mode, and now have a totally FreeBSD system. I'm using an old Compaq P166 as a stand-alone FreeBSD box and I love it, have found myself spending more and more time on it and living the PII (dual boot Win and Slackware) and PIII (Win98 only) to the wife and kids. I suspect that I'm getting better performance with this little box than they are with Windows. I've noticed that X and Netscape use the most cpu at 7%, can Windows compare to that? :-) My goal is to make this box my gateway for our DSL, right now the PIII is doing that job but I think FreeBSD would do it better. Honestly I've got a bit of a learning curve first, I want to really know what I'm doing, not do it 'cookbook' style. Chris Conn, proud to be Powered by FreeBSD cmclist@swbell.net Leander, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message