From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Dec 23 9:53:57 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 1B17D37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx20b.rmci.net (mx20b.rmci.net [205.162.184.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A060343EDE for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:53:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from massey@rmci.net) Received: (qmail 28450 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2002 17:53:53 -0000 Received: from dsl-ip-216-222-2-35.boi.rmci.net (HELO data) (216.222.2.35) by mx20.rmci.net with SMTP; 23 Dec 2002 17:53:53 -0000 From: "Mike" To: Subject: RE: BSD or Linux? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:23:45 -0700 Message-ID: <003a01c2aab0$6e0d8120$0500a8c0@data> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20021223104346.O64422-100000@agnes> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I started on a TRS-80 with a cassette tape. And like someone else mentioned this should move on over to the other list. But I have to add some;-) All OS's have a place. Some suck more than others. But I am required to know at least part of all of them to feed my family. Each feeds my family, some more than others. You guess which one I get more hours of support pay on;-) Get the point? Feed family means more than some petty crap. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Lute Mullenix Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:20 AM To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Chris Fox; jfm@blueyonder.co.uk; newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD or Linux? Well I would like to put a little different perspective on this whole thing. Unlike most people out there I didn't start my computer experience with Windows, or even DOS for that matter. I started it with a UNIX cloan called OS-9 that could be installed on Tandy's wonderful little CoCo computer. I was kind of excited when I first heard about Windows and couldn't wait to give it a spin. First crack was on 3.1 and while I liked WordPerfect for Windows, I found Windows it self to be a silly, and often stupid, and frustrating GUI set over what was a fairly usable if not multi-tasking OS. All this pointing and clicking to do what should have been a simple command line task. Oh and by the way, OS-9 was multi-tasking and had Windows some time before M$ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message