Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:58:55 -0700 From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: pirat@prime.oaep.go.th Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Where to get Windows Internet stuff/ More on Windows & BSD Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980615175855.007f0250@mx.serv.net> In-Reply-To: <19980615153541.A1607@oaep.go.th> References: <3.0.5.32.19980614002726.007fa8c0@mx.serv.net> <3.0.5.32.19980613224241.007ecb30@mx.serv.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980614135505.23112A-100000@parwati.oaep.go.t h> <3.0.5.32.19980614002726.007fa8c0@mx.serv.net>
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Go to http://www.tucows.com and http://www.shareware.com. Some are free, some are shareware, some are commercial demos. But there is so much software available for Windows (both client and server in the Internet category), you couldn't test all of it in a lifetime. That's why my 'main' machine is still a Windows machine. Some in the list don't understand it and think it makes more sense to put BSD on the more powerful machine, and relegate Windows to the back burner. But to me, ultimately software and application availability and the ability to get productive quickly is more important than the configurability/power of the OS that software runs under. Also, driver availability and hardware support are *very* important to me, and on my main machine, most of my hardware would be unsupported. Thirdly, I'm a programmer, and I might want to make money at it sometime. There's very little money in FreeBSD programming (except maybe very narrow, specialized areas) and quite a bit more in Windows programming. So I stay with Windows as my main OS, and BSD as a secondary (but growing in usefulness as I learn it). You gotta admit, dedicating one gig of HD space to it on a 2 gig HD with the rest for Win95 and Win NT to share as software testbed platforms is pretty reasonable (mail tells me I have plenty of free space left everywhere... now I wish I had made /var smaller (I made it 80 megs for some reason and a lot of that is gonna go to waste). Anyway, for anyone who wants to know, here's how I divided up the 1 gig I dedicated to BSD: / - 40 megs /var - 80 megs (Why did I do this??) /usr - 820 megs swap - 60 megs (machine has 32 megs RAM) - sounds reasonable to everyone? Any suggestions on how to better divide the disk up should I ever decide to re-install again (most likely I will be, closer and closer to perfection every time) let me know via Email at fewtch@serv.net and/or the mailing list - thanks. At 03:35 PM 6/15/98 +0700, you wrote: >those stuff that make 95 a file server and telnet server, where do you get >them, are they free ? and so on > >plase reply to newbies as well -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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