Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:32:21 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <01c801c292ba$13c22c60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <10525754683.20021123004206@dds.nl> <014901c29297$74dc8040$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDF1CEF.B800AC55@mindspring.com>
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Terry writes: > Both of which take you away from the configuration > of the system as it is shipped from the vendor. Just changing the name of the server does that. > If you have to do a heck of a lot of work, that > kind of makes it a dubious benefit to have the > OS preinstalled on the hardware, which is the main > argument in favor of Windows. Server operating systems are not usually preinstalled; and security is usually easy to obtain for client operating systems, since it is normally sufficient to block most types of incoming traffic. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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