Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:59:45 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Manfred Usselmann" <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de> To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <200010252103.XAA43591@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de>
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Hi Andrei, On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:39:20 -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. >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. > 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. It is not that easy. Yes, they do force people to buy their products. Simple example: Try to buy a brand PC to install FreeBSD on it without paying for a Microsoft licence at the same time. Nearly impossible since all major hardware companies have been blackmailed by MS for years. They had to sign contracts which obliged them to buy a Windows licence for every PC they sell wether the customer wants it are not. They were threatened that otherwise they would be charged so much for Windows licenses that the company would soon be out of business. They use unfair business practices in other areas as well and do supress competition and creativity, Doug is right. They have been charged for this and the court decided against them. So it is at least official now. I would not go so far and say the Microsoft is evil, but a monopoly is very dangerous, because you no longer have the choice, because they can set the standards. Their proprietary standards of course. You have to take what they produce, good or bad. Innovation is no longer required. Manfred >Thanks. >Andrei. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Doug Barton [mailto:DougB@gorean.org] >Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:54 PM >To: Victor R. Cardona >Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD > > >On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Victor R. Cardona wrote: > >> It is good to here stories like this. I am a FreeBSD newbie, and so far >> am very impressed. I cannot slam Linux though. It got me started with >> UNIX. > > That's an excellent attitude to have. Linux is not our >enemy. There are some (ok, IMO a lot) of things that we do better then >they do, and there are some things they do better than we do. If you need >an enemy, aim at microsoft. And not because they are closed source, >because the company itself is evil, and uses its market position to >unfairly supress competition and creativity. > >Doug >-- > "The dead cannot be seduced." > - Kai, "Lexx" > > Do YOU Yahoo!? > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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