From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Dec 23 9:23:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C7337B401; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCC643EE6; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lute@cableone.net) Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net ([10.116.0.122]) by scanmail2.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:22:00 -0700 Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122] by scanmail2.cableone.net (SMTPD32-7.04) id A637D1E70100; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:21:59 -0700 Received: from (227-51.siocpe.cableone.net [24.116.227.51]) by mail.cableone.net with SMTP (MailShield v2.04 - WIN32 Jul 17 2001 17:12:42); Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:21:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:19:47 -0600 (CST) From: Lute Mullenix X-X-Sender: lute@agnes To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Chris Fox , "" , "" Subject: Re: BSD or Linux? In-Reply-To: <20021223154405.GC1622@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: <20021223104346.O64422-100000@agnes> References: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood> <20021223154405.GC1622@gothmog.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: 227-51.siocpe.cableone.net X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: lute@cableone.net X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: 227-51.siocpe.cableone.net [24.116.227.51] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well I would like to put a little different perspective on this whole thing. Unlike most people out there I didn't start my computer experience with Windows, or even DOS for that matter. I started it with a UNIX cloan called OS-9 that could be installed on Tandy's wonderful little CoCo computer. I was kind of excited when I first heard about Windows and couldn't wait to give it a spin. First crack was on 3.1 and while I liked WordPerfect for Windows, I found Windows it self to be a silly, and often stupid, and frustrating GUI set over what was a fairly usable if not multi-tasking OS. All this pointing and clicking to do what should have been a simple command line task. Oh and by the way, OS-9 was multi-tasking and had Windows some time before M$ hit the market with their bloated wonder. And it ran on a 2 MHz machine with 1/2 meg of ram. And yes it was usable, I used it for quite some time. Anyway this was the first machine I have ever had that had Windows installed on it at any point while I have owned the computer. When I bought it, it came with ME on it and I quickly used Unix tools to shrink the FAT partition to a realistic size and in no time had a triple boot system up and running. This was the first time I actually tried to "use" FreeBSD, but had been using Debian's Linux for a little over a year and was pretty happy with it. This was also a chance to use Windows on a daily basis. Well a few months down the road three things had happened. First FBSD had become my OS of choice. Still a couple of things I think Linux has over FBSD, but for me anyway FBSD is the over all winner. Second I had become totally fed up with Windows point-and-crash, and the moronic, run around way of doing things. Third I removed two things from my system, one was a line from my signature file, which made it necessary to edit another line. I will let you guess what the other one was, but here's a hint... There's now no FAT partitions on my hard drives. Lute ********************** Dual Boot: * FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE * Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 * ********************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message