Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 10:44:17 -0700 From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A few questions Message-ID: <037001bf2559$e6027120$0307070a@shannon-s>
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From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: November 2, 1999 10:43 AM >> I am looking for an alternative to Windows, and am currently considering freeBSD and linux. The problem I'm having is finding the difference between linux and freeBSD. Is there any? If there is, what are they? > >Hmmm......, an "alternative" ? > >IMHO its rather impossible to dump Windoze completely. If you want to use >all the nicenst things that flow around in the net. It's strange... I used OS/2 for years then finally bit the bullet and installed Win95 when OSR2 (hmmm... OSR2 - OS/2? I never noticed that before) came out because that was about the time I needed a new printer and those new-fangled color bubble jets were getting cheap enough that I could afford them. With OS/2 I always had trouble finding drivers for new hardware, be it a video card, sound card, scanner, color printer, modem, video capture card, whatever. Now here I am, trying to minimize my exposure to Windows again but knowing that I'm facing the same problem. bummer. It's not the nice things flowing around the net that I want, it's the hardware support. oh well, sorry I've nothing to add here, Shannon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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