From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 09:44:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB22937B401 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ac-net.at (secure.ac-net.at [212.24.125.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CA943FBD for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shammer@daemon.li) Received: from localhost (server.ac-net.at [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ac-net.at (AC-net Mailserver v1.3a) with ESMTP id BE9303F94 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:44:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from daemon.li (dsl-155-233.utaonline.at [62.218.155.233]) by mail.ac-net.at (AC-net Mailserver v1.3a) with SMTP id 7B4933F92 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7133 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 16:45:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO daemon.li) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 16:45:17 -0000 Received: (from shammer@localhost) by daemon.li (8.12.6/8.12.7/Submit) id h5LGjG0m007131 for advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:45:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from shammer) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:45:15 +0200 From: Josef El-Rayes To: advocacy@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030621164515.GA7088@daemon.li> References: <002201c33812$5b881e80$c601a8c0@starfly> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002201c33812$5b881e80$c601a8c0@starfly> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Reply-Path: j.el-rayes@daemon.li X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12 with AC-networks extensions Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.el-rayes@daemon.li List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:45:00 -0000 Peter wrote: > Found an interesting article on TechTV, seems to portray FreeBSD in a very > good light. Might be good for some promotional thing, to print out and > distribute. although i find this quite nice it seems to be a bit too much of pro-freebsd. it also needs some updating. linux has got a journaling filesystem, ext2 is not the choice anymore. commercial support is better for linux than for freebsd. i also think that linux has usually a better device driver support, or put it this way, a broader variety. so after some modifing, to make it more objective, this article would be very nice. but thats just my opinion. -josef -- www: http://www.daemon.li nic-hdl: JER1080312-NICAT FreeBSD PortMaintainer "Make World - Not War!"