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Started by Phat Phreddy
Mon, 02 Jun 1997 00:00
Unix questions
Author: Phat Phreddy
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 00:00
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OK having decided to take the plunge and reduce the amount of my micro$uck products I would like to gather some info about the pitfalls of UNIX so any responce welcome I am currently running a home office computer used by 3 or 4 ppl so windoze will have to still be operational and 100 % stable (or as near to that as it ever gets) so I was considering using partition magic or similar to block off about 400 MB and set up a unix os my questions are which is the best unix style os ?? lunix etc any1 tried miniunix or Uwin (sounds like that would defeat the point tho) Am I likely to see significant speed increases in net usage ?? (I believed the biggest bottleneck would be the modem connection speed but a rabid unix advocate was saying that as most net servers are unix based and the s/w is more efficient I would see increases !!) I have heard that there is a very cheap 6 cd pack for about $25 that contains lunix plus 90% of the tools / apps I may want, any1 know who provides this as it would save on online time and frustration. Will my many small DOS apps be compatible in a unix enviroment ?? as part of the same question when you partition a hard disk will the os be blind to the separate (other) partition ? What are the favored / best email, newsreader and browser combinations for unix ??? any other hints / tips and related info also gladly welcomed I would appreciate it if responses could come by email, Thanks in advance -- Phat Phreddy phatp...@bigfoot.com
Re: Unix questions
Author: sc... Scott I. Remick
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:00
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On 2 Jun 1997 19:52:33 GMT, "Phat Phreddy" <phatp...@bigfoot.com> wrote: >OK having decided to take the plunge and reduce the amount of my micro$uck >products I would like to gather some info about the pitfalls of UNIX so any >responce welcome > >which is the best unix style os ?? lunix etc any1 tried miniunix or Uwin >(sounds like that would defeat the point tho) I would go with FreeBSD, without a question. http://www.freebsd.org ----------------------- Scott I. Remick mailto:sc...@computeralt.com Network Systems Administrator (802)388-7545 FAX:(802)388-3697 Computer Alternatives, Inc. http://www.computeralt.com God placed me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I'm never going to die.
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