From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 14:12:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsd.alexe.org (cc381552-a.slbch1.occa.home.com [24.16.80.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F32237B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:12:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by bsd.alexe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fABMDxL41721 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:13:13 -0800 From: Alex Obradovic To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software on FreeBSD (Has FBSD4.4 grown up yet) Message-ID: <20011111141313.A41638@bsd.alexe.org> References: <3BEEA27F.C30FD33F@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:06:34AM -0500 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.alexe.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.4-RC (i386) X-Uptime: 1:54PM up 1 day, 47 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.06, 0.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > times. If you are comparing FBSD to Redhat, there is no comparison, redhat > is head and shoulders above FBSD when it comes to ease of use. Stick with > redhat. Is this really true? I never used Red Hat, but I am pretty happy with the ease of use of my FreeBSD. When you say 'ease of use' do you mean 'ease of setup'? I can hardly imagine that a RedHat with KDE would be any easier to use than FreeBSD with KDE. I read about Amazon switching to Red Hat to save 30% of their software costs. Couldn't they have done it with FreeBSD also? The end user of the system would not be doing the setup anyway, so the 'ease of setup' would affect the administrator only. I am just puzzled since I am still trying to find a business problem that I can NOT solve with one of the applications that come with FreeBSD. I am certainly not talking about games here. The statements such as the one above in my opinion can just hurt FreeBSD image, since if I came across this post while I was choosing a new OS, I probably would have considered the other OS instead of FreeBSD. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message