From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 5 19:47: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA80237B417 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:47:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from optusnet.com.au (golax4-127.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.147.127]) by mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g363l2l07132 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:47:02 +1000 Message-ID: <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 13:49:11 +1000 From: Ian Pulsford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ot] Other x86 OS's to play around with? References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Walter Hop wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've some spare Intel hardware around and I'd like to try out some > operating systems I've never used, for no particular purpose at all. > So far I've tried Solaris/x86, and although it was a horrible experience I > still have faith. I'd be interested in anything that isn't directly BSDish > or Linuxish... any ideas? I have that this company makes an OK OS, http://www.microsoft.com Apparently they have been having some problems with security, stability and performance. Hopefully though though these problems will be ironed out within a year or two. Check it out if you are into experimental operating systems. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message