From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 14:54:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA25149 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from big.aa.net (root@big.aa.net [204.157.220.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA25125 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from s3c1p7.aa.net (s3c1p7.aa.net [204.157.220.147]) by big.aa.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA17713 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:54:15 -0800 X-Intended-For: Message-Id: <199601072254.OAA17713@big.aa.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 96 14:58:34 -0800 From: Steve Osterday X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 Announcement Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk http://www.freebsd.org/releases/latest/notes.html I'm curious..... Could I use FreeBSD as a replacement for DOS and run everything I now run that is either DOS based or Windows based? I'm currently using Windows for work groups 3.11 with many apps, sound card, scanner, tape drive, CD-RON drive, etc. Everything works FINE, but I would like to have the functionality of multitasking without the headaches of Win95. <:-) I have not upgraded and am not too wild about the idea of ever upgrading if I can find a viable alternative. I don't want to put myself in a closet either. MS has some nice apps in spite of its lousey operating system. What would be the benefit of using FreeBSD vs OS/2 for instance? Thanks for your time. Regards, --Steve