From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 12:20:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05042 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04980 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29268; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:18:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199812162018.OAA29268@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? please give me ten reasons. In-Reply-To: <199812161940.LAA22594@law-f100.hotmail.com> from Albert Chen at "Dec 16, 98 11:40:25 am" To: chen6178@hotmail.com (Albert Chen) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:18:29 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Albert Chen said: > 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. Off the top of my head. 1) It's free. 2) It's faster (ie, less power hungry). It works fine on a 386. My home machine is a Cyrix P150 FBSD is fast Win98 is a dog. 3) It's stable. I can't tell you how many times I've had to reboot the 2 NTs on my desk, just today. 12? 4) It comes with a compiler. 5) There are 1000s of free apps for it. With source. 6) It's Unix 7) You can get actual support. Doug White is worth about 40 Microsoft engineers (at least). 8) It follows standards, instead of imposing "standards" 9) Runs Linux Apps 10) Runs SCO Apps How's that. -- Kids, just because I don't care doesn't mean I'm not listening. - Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message