From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 09:17:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BA7106564A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (202-172-126-254.cpe.qld-1.comcen.com.au [202.172.126.254]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D296F8FC0A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:17:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.185] (unknown [192.168.0.185]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23D14058 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:18:07 +1000 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20081116224509.B26735@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <491D59D3.8080809@spansurf.com> <20081114203914.W14337@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <491DDD56.1040001@ccstores.com> <20081114225626.GA56663@icarus.home.lan> <20081115011836.N16077@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081116020345.GB15841@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20081116125716.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081116142018.GA18047@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20081116224509.B26735@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:17:48 +1000 Message-Id: <1226913468.8307.49.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: re changing from vista X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:17:40 -0000 On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 22:53 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Still it goes, the OP is trying to get away from MS-Win, not find some > > non-MS clone > > in EVERY such post i see exactly opposite. they want windoze clones! > they don't ask about how to learn unix, what to read, they didn't read > even basic manuals, or if so - just glanced. > > actually - there is a market niche for true non-microsoft windoze clone! > it's strange noone try to fill it. it's millions of $ to earn! > Try ReactOS- it's exactly that. I think its a version of Wine on steroids... Also I think thats what Xandros and some of it's partners are doing. > something working like windoze, running windoze .exe/.dll binaries and > windows compatible installer but for example not requiring gig of RAM, > powerful CPU running 10 times faster (not difficult to achieve) etc... > > > > i remember many years ago installing linux first time (linux was quite > good that time). i spent 2 months on it reading everything needed and > learning BEFORE asking questions on mailing lists! because i knew nothing > about unix at first. > > I knew only DOS and windoze 95 before, DOS isn't an OS at all, but that > is adventage too. but i needed something that made full use of my 25Mhz > 486. > > Windoze definitely wasn't good in it. it just wasted hardware resources > giving nothing. that's why i tried to seek something different. > and found linux.. after some time NetBSD, then FreeBSD. > > > > today - most of these wannabe-FreeBSD-users just don't want to pay for > windoze. nothing else! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"