Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:19:47 -0600 (CST) From: Lute Mullenix <lute@cableone.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Chris Fox <a-chrisf@exchange.microsoft.com>, "" <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>, "" <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <20021223104346.O64422-100000@agnes> In-Reply-To: <20021223154405.GC1622@gothmog.gr> References: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood> <20021223154405.GC1622@gothmog.gr>
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Well I would like to put a little different perspective on this whole thing. Unlike most people out there I didn't start my computer experience with Windows, or even DOS for that matter. I started it with a UNIX cloan called OS-9 that could be installed on Tandy's wonderful little CoCo computer. I was kind of excited when I first heard about Windows and couldn't wait to give it a spin. First crack was on 3.1 and while I liked WordPerfect for Windows, I found Windows it self to be a silly, and often stupid, and frustrating GUI set over what was a fairly usable if not multi-tasking OS. All this pointing and clicking to do what should have been a simple command line task. Oh and by the way, OS-9 was multi-tasking and had Windows some time before M$ hit the market with their bloated wonder. And it ran on a 2 MHz machine with 1/2 meg of ram. And yes it was usable, I used it for quite some time. Anyway this was the first machine I have ever had that had Windows installed on it at any point while I have owned the computer. When I bought it, it came with ME on it and I quickly used Unix tools to shrink the FAT partition to a realistic size and in no time had a triple boot system up and running. This was the first time I actually tried to "use" FreeBSD, but had been using Debian's Linux for a little over a year and was pretty happy with it. This was also a chance to use Windows on a daily basis. Well a few months down the road three things had happened. First FBSD had become my OS of choice. Still a couple of things I think Linux has over FBSD, but for me anyway FBSD is the over all winner. Second I had become totally fed up with Windows point-and-crash, and the moronic, run around way of doing things. Third I removed two things from my system, one was a line from my signature file, which made it necessary to edit another line. I will let you guess what the other one was, but here's a hint... There's now no FAT partitions on my hard drives. Lute ********************** Dual Boot: * FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE * Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 * ********************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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