Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:30:50 -0400 From: "Pleschutznig, Andreas" <Andreas.Pleschutznig@Schwab.COM> To: "'Clem.Dye@wdr.com'" <Clem.Dye@wdr.com>, dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us, paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, ulairi@jps.net Subject: RE: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D617A4@n1002smx.nt.schwab.com>
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Forgive my not knowing: Beos is as free as freebsd? where can I download a copy from? -- Andreas Pleschutznig Sr. Unix System Admin E-mail: Andreas.Pleschutznig@Schwab.com Phone: (415) 636 0493 Cell: (415) 850 7996 Brick: 260 Pager: http://www.nextel.com/paging/indivpage.html Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. > -----Original Message----- > From: Clem.Dye@wdr.com [mailto:Clem.Dye@wdr.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 9:05 AM > To: dknapp@luciamar.k12.ca.us; paul@geeky1.ebtech.net > Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; ulairi@jps.net > Subject: RE: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD > > > 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 <CONTROL-G> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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