From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 11:58:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A39D15A24 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.252]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA11776; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:56:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <011d01bef899$a7abee20$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Rick Knebel" , References: <19990906144527.L1422@rknebel.uplink.net> Subject: RE: FreeBsd Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:57:23 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, See below for comments: > 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? Its easier, but you may find it a little harder because you dont have a lot of those linux pretty nice programs for configuring things. > How is the Desktop in FReeBSD. The same as Linux (thats the xfree86 project). > Could I realistically use it for my home workstation? Yes > Will things like WP8 run on freebsd? Yes, (under Linux Emulation) even more stable than linux. > > I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. > > Thanks > Rick > > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > Welcome to the FreeBSD Community Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message