From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 12:14:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04275 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04264 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA24555; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:11:55 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:12:05 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Albert Chen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? please give me ten reasons. In-Reply-To: <199812161940.LAA22594@law-f100.hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Albert Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currenlty using FreeBSD. My advisor prefers WinNT, > I telled him to try FreeBSD, but he asked me: > "Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? give me ten reasons > and I will try it?" I don't know how to answer, > would anyone tell me, thanks. * More stable (the only time it goes down is when you want it to). The above is the most important reason for many, many people; but here are a few others. * Runs faster. * Less resource hungry - handles a higher load *MUCH* better than NT. * Better tech support. (this list!) * The Base O/S Costs less. * Comes with sources. * Lots of free software-resources off the 'Net Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message