The Linux Experiment

Quintin Riis webmaster at countrypure.net
Tue Jan 27 12:35:52 PST 2004


I agree. :(  BeOS, OS/2, there's lots of other stuff out there for IA-32.

		Quintin

Johnson David wrote:
> Chip Morton wrote:
> 
>> Not FreeBSD related, but an interesting read from the perspective of a 
>> veteran Windows user turned UNIX newbie.
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,113746,pg,1,00.asp
> 
> 
>  From the article:
> 
> "I didn't want a Macintosh--for one thing, I didn't want to move to a 
> new hardware platform. That left me just one other choice: Linux."
> 
> That a PC World editor only know of two operating systems for the x86 
> platform is shameful. I could understand the average Joe on the street 
> thinking that there's only Windows and Linux, but an editor of a major 
> computer magazine?
> 
> We really need to get the word out that FreeBSD exists. Before we can 
> get to the point of promoting its features, we need to promote its 
> existance!
> 
> David
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