Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 20:49:02 +0100 From: "Geir Eivind Mork" <gemork@online.no> To: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@freebsd.org>, "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com> Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <199706181850.UAA21225@online.no>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 97 11:29:16, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>>X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2
>>I'm a user of FreeBSD (a quite new one too),
>I have seen several OS/2 users using/switching to FreeBSD (I am one
>of them).
I have seen more switch to Linux, but both from Os/2 and Windows 95/NT.
>I can understand why (lack of IBM marketting), but I wonder how this
>migration compares to other OS.
I'm thinking of doing a research about that, asking a number of Linux and FreeBSD users about what they
went from, why and how they like their new os and if they use more than that os and how much they use
linux/freebsd. I moved cause I felt like trying something new, plus that I've always been attracted to unix.
>Does anyone has any guess on
>percentage of people coming to FreeBSD from other OS? (notice I said
>guess. I don't think it is possible to come up with any real numbers
To FreeBSD from other OS'es.. I guess 95% :) But after using FreeBSD for some days now, I can the basic, I
know more how to control the computer than I did in Os/2 and so on, all I need now is to get FTE for
FreeBSD. :)
>FreeBSD as in OS/2 are email software. I use PmMail and soon to get
>PMInews. From what I have heard the other email software for OS/2 are
>algo great.
MR/2 ICE, I have heard that too (They're also coming with a newsreader soon).. PMInews has some bugs,
but after a couple of fixes it'll be what PMMail is to Mail. I haven't seen a mail program like PMMail, and I
doubt I'll :) Two of the boxes I've got running here is using Os/2, the last one is running FreeBSD. I'll use
FreeBSD for WWW, FTP,NEWS, iRC etc, but I'll keep up with PMMail. It might be because two others use
PMMail. Well, If I find something real good on the BSD I might switch to it but.. PMMail is great.
But I was using 4os/2 as my primary shell in Os/2, how can I emulate it's features (except alias) in BSD (I use
the standar shell in BSD).. Like the TAB feature, the doskey-alike feature (browse previous commands) etc.
And btw; Can I use some sort of macro in the prompt ? Like I did in dos/4os? Like the famous $p$g? I haven't
figured out something like that from the man(uals)
_tDr_ (gemork@online.no)
... One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero,
they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
--Robert Firth
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