Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:48:26 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: JAMES ARMSTRONG <JRARM@CENTURYINTER.NET> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd Message-ID: <36ACE6AA.E4F7A2BD@seattleu.edu> References: <36AADFED.8E9C07D6@CENTURYINTER.NET>
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JAMES ARMSTRONG wrote: > > HELLO TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN, I SEEN ADS ON WEB ABOUT YOUR PRO FREEBSD > OR XFREE86 OR LINUX, I AM INTRESTED IN TRYING > YOUR PROGRAM TO SEE IF I LIKE IT. > BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DOWNLOAD, I HAVE A IBM COMPATABLE, PENTIUM 166 > MHZ, WITH MMX, ATI 3DFX VIDEO CARD > RUNS ON RAGE PRO TURBO DRV, A SOUND BLASTER PRO DELUXE 16 AWE 32. > I RUN WIN 95 FULL VER, I PLAY GAMES, QUAKE2, SIN, HALF LIFE, UNREAL. > NOW IF YOUR PROG WILL DO WHAT I WANT, TELL ME THE NAME VER > AND WHERE I CAN DOWNLOAD IT. Please, no caps. FreeBSD is a BSD derived UNIX operating system. It is very powerful, very stable, and has real multitasking (just like Linux.) FreeBSD (and Linux) do not come out of the box with your familiar Windows-ish GUI. Instead you need to get Xfree86, or a similar X server (FreeBSD and Linux both come with it, you need to set it up.) Currently Quake, QuakeWorld, and Quake2 have been ported to Linux for your gameplaying pleasure. FreeBSD has an excellent Linux emulator that will also run these games. As for the other, you can try to get them to run with WINE, the Windows Emulator. I myself run FreeBSD for Word Processing, E-Mail, and other stuff that isn't supposed to crash due to the Microsoft-induced "chaos factor" (random GPFs, etc.) and run my games under Windows 95 when I don't really care if they crash (usually due to (I think) excessive heat from my SLI Voodoo2s. NOTE: nothing is my system is clocked above the rated speeds.) For playing games, I would stick to Windows 95, but FreeBSD and Linux are a chalenge to learn, and fun to boot. If computers are a hobby for you, I would spare a Gig to install FreeBSD or Linux (or both) and play around with them. Excellent information on FreeBSD can be found at www.freebsd.org, and Linux's homepage is www.linux.org, but I've never had any experience with Linux. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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