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From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: JAVA and FreeBSD 2.1
Date: 9 Mar 1997 23:56:05 +0100
Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
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In article <33155672.0@finesse.isdn.uni-konstanz.de>,
Pascal Gienger <Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
>James L Fox <jlfox+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>
>: Could someone give me a pep talk to convince me that I should keep
>: arguing to run FreeBSD vs NT! or Solaris on our new P6's?  :-)
>: The NT supporters offer eXeed or Xappeal on NT as a window to the
>: centralized Solaris machines available at this site.
>
>That is a very idiot argument for NT. Given the apalling performance of
>Windows-based X-Servers like eXceed you can also use FreeBSD and XFree to
>"open a window on centralized Solaris machines".... For less bucks and
>with more speed.

There is no real issue here! You should run BOTH NT and FreeBSD.
Since FreeBSD is *FREE* you don'nt need to loos any mony there.

All it cost you is an extra disk - and disk is no "big" investment
today! Nice is it not?

GH

>Pascal
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