From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 11:58:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand5.global.net.uk (sand5.global.net.uk [194.126.80.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB3C159EE for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pa9s10a07.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.234.170] helo=marder-1.) by sand5.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11O3xW-0006yM-00; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:57:43 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id TAA01298; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:49:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:49:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBsd Message-ID: <19990906194951.A1137@marder-1> References: <19990906144527.L1422@rknebel.uplink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990906144527.L1422@rknebel.uplink.net>; from Rick Knebel on Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 02:45:27PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 02:45:27PM -0400, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, I ahve been using linux for a short period of time, but am > unhappy with the fragmention. What I mean is all the differnet > distributions. I would want to use freebsd for the gateway to the > internet for my two other computers , a Mac and a Win98 computer. > I would also what it to act as a mailserver for the other two > computers. Would this be any harder to set up in FreeBSD than > Linux? No. > How is the Desktop in FReeBSD. How do you want it? There are >20 different window managers for FreeBSD, including KDE, Afterstep, Windowmaker etc. (I'm a Luddite, I use OpenLook :) ). > Could I realistically use it for my home workstation? Yes, no problem. > Will things like WP8 run on freebsd? > Yes. FreeBSD runs nearly all Linux binaries. There are even reports of them running faster under FreeBSD than Linux :) > I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. > > Thanks > Rick > > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message