Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:19:28 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001025151928.A29563@home.com> In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CCD@exchange.panasonicfa.com>; from AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:39:20AM -0500 References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CCD@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:39:20AM -0500, Zaitsau, Andrei wrote: > > > Guys, I did NOT mean to slam Linux. I just wrote about my own experience > with it, just my opinion, that's it. I am thankful to Linux, any experience > even good and bad is still experience, it's a process of learning. At least > I learned how to partition hard drive, how to mount filesystem. And learned > very basic commands. I did not mean to say that you were slamming Linux when I made my comment. > May be dozens of my unsuccessful attempts to install Linux, helped me to > install FreeBSD successfully. In my opinion recent distributions of Linux > just making learning a little bit harder. I took a look at RedHat 7.0 > distribution, and for my surprise I did not find anywhere inetd & > inetd.conf. They replaced it by xinetd. If by modifying inetd.conf I can > secure y computer somehow by disabling services, I did not find how to do > it in Redhat 7.0, I am sure there is the way. But it would be much nicer to > have inetd and inetd.conf (even man pages are missing). But as always > FreeBSD has it. Red Hat does suck. I started with Red Hat and quickly switched to SuSE. I think that Red Hat tries to hard to be different, and ends up shooting itself in the foot. > Doug, I would not aim Microsoft also. This is business. And nothing evil. > Personally I do not like Microsoft products, they are unstable. But no one > makes you to use them. Bill Gates did not come to people with automatic gun > and tell them: "Hey Folk, buy Microsoft Products, or I will shoot you !". > It's people who made Microsoft gigantic corporation. No one makes you to buy > products, if you don't like it- do not buy it and do not use it. Easy as > 1,2,3. Try buying a new computer without Windows. Granted it is a lot easier now then it once was, but still most off the shelf PCs come with Microsoft software. > Thanks. > Andrei. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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