From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 1 9: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gate.ldn.wdr.com (gate.ldn.wdr.com [193.82.179.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A5914E58 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Clem.Dye@wdr.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gate.ldn.wdr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21518; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:05:26 +0100 (BST) From: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Received: from inside(192.168.0.1) by gate via smap (V2.0) id xma021398; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:05:01 +0100 Received: from ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com (ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com [172.16.234.32]) by ln4p1013pos.ldn.swissbank.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07660; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:05:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6/WDR alpha evision: 1.7 $) with SMTP id RAA28110; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:04:59 +0100 (BST) X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:04:51 +0100 Message-Id: Subject: RE: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us, paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, ulairi@jps.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="BDY.TXT" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Processed-By: BrianWare hpomsmf V2.3.40, 19 May 1999 X-WDR-Disclaimer: Version $Revision: 1.13 $ Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tried BeOS 4.5, dead impressed. Boots in about 10 seconds, easy to drive, but with Unix underneath, where it matters. Fast - it whizzed along on a Pentium/200 (not MMX) with 32MB ram. Hardware support is still a little light (read: no laptop stuff), but I can easily see my home network using a FreeBSD backend with BeOS clients. I shall be grabbing a pukka copy of BeOS 4.5 the moment that my supplier gets a stock. Clem -----Original Message----- From: dknapp Sent: 01 July 1999 17:02 To: paul Cc: dknapp; ulairi; freebsd-newbies Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Paul Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Ulairi wrote: > > > NT is about 7 years old. Give it time, > > perhaps it'll grow up a tad. > > > And it's already a huge kludge. The problem is that Microsoft won't admit > to itself that UNIX is, in fact, the pinnacle of operating system > interface design. It is powerful, easily learned(contrary to popular > opinion), stable, and effective. I would like to try out BEOS before I will agree with that statement. :^) > > --- > Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac > paul@geeky1.ebtech.net > Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group > http://www.sar-net.com/slug > http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul > "Ask not for whom the tolls." > -- David Knapp PC Network Specialist LMUSD 805 473-4390 ext 426 FreeBSD Newbie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message