Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:35:16 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (Fwd) Info on replacing Windows NT with Linux or FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.19981117163138.00a836c0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19981117153000.A18675@Denninger.Net> References: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981118100646.3261C-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> <199811171749.LAA07976@n4hhe.ampr.org> <Pine.SCO.3.96.981118100646.3261C-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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At 03:30 PM 11/17/98 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >I can't even BEGIN to tell you how cool this looks. > >I'm going to check it out. Right now I have a Winblows "all in one" HP >OfficeJet. It SUCKS. Among other things, the software blows up Win98 >CONSISTENTLY in ways that wedge the processor (oh Joy!). On an lighter note. I nixed Win98 because of its bad handling of memory. Would appear that it has a chronic memory leak that caused my machine to turn into a 486-66 within an hour. Ironically my PII-333 at work is running FreeBSD incredibly. Installing Win95 again has fixed the problem, unfortunately still in the tainted eyes of Microshaft. >I recently replaced an NT server with FreeBSD+Samba. If I can replace >THIS piece of shit with something that works, I then need only a $200 >fax machine for "paper fax" needs - or a cheap SCSI scanner - and I'm in >completely in business. I want to replace an NT Workstation with FreeBSD. But none of Netscapes servers will run on it.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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