[rescue] OK, step one of the purge in New Jersey...

[Ken Hansen]

Yup, I am sure everything I need is there (in Unix-land), but sheer momentum
kept me in the MS Camp until now... This Win XP 11-15% performance *penalty*
somehow pushed me to consider my options...

Thanks,

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derrick Daugherty" <derrick at blinky-lights.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] OK, step one of the purge in New Jersey...


> It's rumored that around Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:09:52PM -0500
> Ken Hansen <n2vip at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> >
> > I am heading towards an MS-less environment (I use so little MS software
as
> > it is, outside of work, that I think the effort to transition will be
> > slight...). Laptops may remain on Win98 for 802.11b networking...
>
> quick comment on this.  Most all chip sets are supported under freebsd
> and linux AFAIK.  I've borrowed several different cards at different
> times for various uses and applications and had no problem getting the
> kernel to use them.  I've been M$ free at home and work for about 5
> years now.  Never looked back :)  Everyone complains they can't play
> their dvds in unix, check out `mplayer` works like a champ.  I have
> _attack of the killer clowns_ in my drive right now :)



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