From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 10:41: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABC314E8D for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for chat@freebsd.org id 12DXNF-0001sa-00; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:41:01 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA35619 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:41:01 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:41:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-chat Subject: getting rid of windows... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am very close to getting rid of windows entirely, and i wanted to get some opinions. I have a laptop with a 4 gig drive, split evenly with FreeBSD. right now, FreeBSD takes up about 65% of the space. I don't know how quickly i would use that up, but it would be nice to have a little more elbow room. Here are my only reservations: Multimedia support: windows does a great job with .avis, mpegs, .wav files, and the like. I just can't seem to get FreeBSD to work as seamlessly. Development: i use djgpp and rhide for school programming assignments. They work really well together. Granted, i haven't explored the BSD options. And if i ever need to bring VC++ work home, i'll be stuck. Games. Enough said. On the other hand, i don't really use that many multimedia apps, or games, and i know BSD has excellent development tools, once i learn them. Is the extra 2 gigs of space worth it? P.S. I'm a poor college student right now, if i could afford a desktop machine with a 20 gig drive, i would have it :-) -=> jm <=- "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... Revel in your time!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message