From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 18:53: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts17.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD7437B405 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from prayforwind.com ([199.243.128.11]) by tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011120025300.UUUD16532.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@prayforwind.com>; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:53:00 -0500 Received: (from gtabug@localhost) by prayforwind.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAK32hD00299; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:02:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gtabug) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:02:43 -0500 From: Steve Brown To: Chip Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:31:24PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're tired of Windows crashing you sure can! Or you can have Windows on 1 drive or partition and FreeBSD on the other (Like I must, my wife must use MS Office). And unfortunately, MS has the best browser out there (IE5.5) which runs only on windows, another reason you may want to keep a Windows partition around. Cheers, Steve On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:31:24PM -0800, Chip wrote: > On Monday 19 November 2001 17:26, Dennis Logan wrote: > > Hi, > > Can i use this operating system instead of win98 on my pc? > > dennis > > Absolutely! I made the change a couple years ago. It's been a great > learning experience. That's the key - you have to have the attitude > that you're going into this to learn something new, not just point and > click your way around and never really know whats going on. > > Visit http://www.freebsd.org and others and learn as much as possible > before diving in, then you'll be able to make the right decistion, whether > or not FBSD is for you. > > -- > Chip W. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message