From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 22 22:32:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F3C37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A6543E88 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gAN6WL984862 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:32:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01c801c292ba$13c22c60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Advocacy" References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> <04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <10525754683.20021123004206@dds.nl> <014901c29297$74dc8040$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDF1CEF.B800AC55@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:32:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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