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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!news.mdh.se!columba.udac.uu.se!du.se!news.kth.se!tybalt.admin.kth.se!merope.saaf.se!electra.saaf.se!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5fvf65$lh3@electra.saaf.se> References: <3300175B.4E89@cs.uiuc.edu> <330E297D.167EB0E7@quickweb.com> <5evqvu$j12@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <33155672.0@finesse.isdn.uni-konstanz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: electra.saaf.se Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36984 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 >-- >Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de |Prefix +49 7531|Fon 16074|Fax 20370 >-------------| http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1381/ |----+--------- >Rechenzentrum| Tolles Internet, Teil XVI: Gestern: "Entschuldiung daß ich >Uni Konstanz | in die falsche Group gepostet habe." Heute: "Halts Maul!" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Göran Hasse gh@raditex.se Tel: +46 8 7730148 Raditex AB http://www.raditex.se Fax: +46 8 7730902 Box 38 Minicall: 0740-167443 138 21 ÄLTA, SWEDEN