From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 17:53:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16720 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ogurok.com (ogurok.com [208.212.72.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16708 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oleg@ogurok.com) Received: from localhost (oleg@localhost) by ogurok.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA02178; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:01:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from oleg@ogurok.com) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:01:15 -0500 (EST) From: Oleg Ogurok To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com cc: Albert Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? please give me ten reasons. In-Reply-To: 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 Hi. BRAVO. BTW, how about putting this e-mail into the FAQ list? Thank you. Oleg Ogurok oleg@ogurok.com http://www.ogurok.com On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Spike Gronim wrote: > 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. > > > 1. FreeBSD is more efficient, and therefore well suited to high load > server environments. > > 2. FreeBSD has free, good tech support, as opposed to having to buy tech > support from M$. > > 3. FreeBSD is open source, so that if their is a bug found in a program > distributed with it or somebody just wants to add some new feature to a > program, they can. This means bugs get fixed sooner. > > 4. Easily customized- differnt shells, different GUIs, re-compilable > kernel, easily altered network > > 5. Cheap- FreeBSD is free, you don't need to buy user licenses like you do > with some M$ porducts. > > 6. Comes with lots of useful, free, well made programs. The ports > collection has 1924 programs available on CD or from the Internet. All > free. I have on my hard drive free C development tools, not to mention > Perl, shell, tcl/tk, C++, lisp. I have networking tools- tcpdump, a > firewall, and tcp port wrappers. I have the X Windowing system, a > versatile and efficient base for my GUI. All these things would cost me > money from M$, and from my experience with M$ they wouldn't work as well. > > 7. More secure- I once broke in to a WinNT system by accident while > hitting random keys on the keyboard (this is true- I did this in front of > witnesses) > > 8. Great documentation- the system comes with manual pages for all the > programs that come with it, and if the docs aren't enough you can go read > the source to find what you need. > > 9. The system is verbose. With M$ operating systems, instead of telling > you what it is doing it is busy displaying a pretty splash screen. With > FreeBSD, the system will tell you everything it can about what is going > on- from why a program crashed to the memory address ranges it using to > access your video card. > > 10. FreeBSD has decades of development behind it. The FreeBSD project was > started in 1993, but BSD (the Berkeley Unix FreeBSD is based on) has been > in development since the very early eighties, and the original AT&T Unix > has been in development since the mid 1970's. > > Hope this convinces your advisor. > > > > > Regards, > > Albert > > > -Spike Gronim > sporkl@ix.netcom.com > > > The majority only rules those who let them. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message