From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 6:34:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45CC337B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.noc.u-net.net (pooh.noc.u-net.net [195.102.252.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C83043E72 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmcgarvey@vianetworks.co.uk) Received: from pooh.noc.u-net.net ([195.102.252.112] helo=there) by pooh.noc.u-net.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17k2xj-0009Rm-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:34:23 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter McGarvey Reply-To: pmcgarvey@vianetworks.co.uk Organization: VIA NETdotWORKS To: Ken McGlothlen Subject: Re: Information on FREEBSD Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:34:22 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20020828083349.64224.qmail@web14205.mail.yahoo.com> <86vg5vs2z2.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <86vg5vs2z2.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: X-Scanner: EQUS c1713b57e90f1e098d512d17f64f9f82 (Personal POOH - SMTP Gateway) X-EXIM-FILTER: PASS-s02 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ken McGlothlen [Wednesday 28 August 2002 11:16 am] > Haresh Sawlani writes: > | Dear Sir/Madam, > | > | I am Haresh Sawlani. I am student from the University of Southern > | Queensland, Australia. I am currently writing up an article on > | Unix-based "open source" operating systems as an alternative to > | Windows-based systems. > | > | As such, I am hoping and would truly appreciate any information that > | you could provide me with on the history, technical features of > | FreeBSD as well as any advantages it may have over other Unix-based > | and Windows-based operating systems. > > I hope you'll pardon me for saying this, but we frequently get requests > from students asking us, essentially, to do their homework for them. > This is always a little discouraging, and I'm afraid we've gotten a bit > jaded by these repeated requests. We haven't quite gotten to the point > of complete cynicism, but . . . well, you get the picture. > > On the plus side, all the information you require is already at our > website: > > http://freebsd.org/ > > I assume you got the questions@freebsd.org address from the website > anyway; I don't know why you couldn't have bought yourself to continue > reading the website to find the information you sought. (It's a process > we like to call "research.") > > Best of luck to you. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Fair's fair, the advantages of FreeBSD over other Unix-based and Windows-based operating systems are not readily documented. Yes, I know what some of them advantages are - because I use FreeBSD as well as Linux, Solaris and Irix. And of course it's self evident that a casio calculator is marginally more useable than Windows. But when I first started using FreeBSD I had not a clue as to what made it better than any other Unix - all the info I did find was mostly subjective and therefore unreliable. The only thing I had to go on was a contact who swore blind it was indeed the best OS ever; and who was willing to hold my hand as I found my path up the learning curve. If I'd found a Linux guru rather than a FreeBSD guru I'd be sitting here believing Linux was the best OS ever. Like all the other misguided fools in my office :) -- TTFN, FNORD Peter McGarvey System Administrator Network Operations, VIA Networks UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message