From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 13: 0:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F4014E87 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:00:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 62F7F199A; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:00:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:00:30 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: getting rid of windows... Message-ID: <20000126160030.B401@argon.blackdawn.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 06:41:01PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 06:41:01PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > 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: While you're on your way to getting rid of Windows, do yourself a favor and get rid of that lousy email client you're using, or at least fix its linewrapping settings. :-) > 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. Um, we have various MP3 players available. Same with .wav. Can't say anything about .avi's though. > 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. I do all my development on FreeBSD. Granted, they are only simple non-GUI C++ programs. I find VIM + g++ 2.95.2 a nice combination. > Games. Enough said. There are some nice games that are available to run on FreeBSD. You could try the Linux version of this or that (i.e., Descent, Doom, Quake 3 Arena, and so forth). I happen to like xkobo, xbill, and other simple games that are available in the ports collection. > 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 :-) Heh.. if you gave up games completely, you'd probably think FreeBSD was heaven. :-) I speak for myself only.. I've never used any of the audio/video players available under either OS, and I've only played a few games (compared to most people anyway). I find the development tools much more intuitive under FreeBSD than Windows. If you want a GUI development suite, there are several already available (kdevelop, qtez, and others come to mind). Do some research. If you want to use FreeBSD bad enough, you could pitch a hand in the porting job. ;-) -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message