From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 14:40:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A253106564A for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BF58FC0A for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2RkX-00083N-I0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:17 +0000 Received: from p54b27573.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.178.117.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:17 +0000 Received: from usselmann.m by p54b27573.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Manfred Usselmann Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0100 Organization: ICG IT Consulting GmbH Lines: 41 Message-ID: <20081118154009.2e3be393.usselmann.m@icg-online.de> References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <20081118121634.S84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118123147.GA96005@ei.bzerk.org> <94136a2c0811180444n51cae14bg70654bc7b93445f8@mail.gmail.com> <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54b27573.dip.t-dialin.net In-Reply-To: <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Sender: news Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:23 -0000 On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> usage or need. > > > > You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be > > here > > is someone that simply use unix an expert? > > no. > > > > By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are > > and i will repeat it because it's true. it's every other unix > replacement. > > as linux tries for many years to be windows replacement - it's both > low end unix and low end windows replacement, "windows for poor". This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. Compared e.g. with the old OS/2 desktop, which was really powerful, flexible (and object oriented). How disappointed I was when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have read even the user interface of Mac OS X is much better that Windows although they have a much smaller market share. Anyhow, of course you can fully replace Windows with a unix(-like) system and a suitable desktop enviroment (e.g. KDE, Gnome, XFCE). It depends on your specific requirements and if applications exist which do what you need. But saying that GUI's under Unix are per se inferior is just spreading FUD. Leave that to MS. ;-) Just a small example, how limited Windows really is: Even today it is not possible to configure the standard interface of Windows XP (Luna) in any other color than blue, olive green and silver. LOL. The only advantage Windows has is that many people are used to it. -- Manfred Usselmann