From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 25 02:01:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 DF19816A41F for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:01:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606B943D5A for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:01:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBP20rx4017152; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:00:53 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, danial_thom@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:01:28 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051224225721.17983.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051224225721.17983.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512241801.28350.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: rod person Subject: Re: BSD Question's. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:01:34 -0000 On Saturday 24 December 2005 02:57 pm, Danial Thom wrote: > --- rod person wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) > > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > I don't expect you to care, but saying you > > > "prefer FreeBSD" and saying "FreeBSD is > > > > better" > > > > > are different animals. I just wanted to know > > > > what > > > > > you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do > > > > with > > > > > Windows. I already know what I can do with > > > Windows that I can't do with FreeBSD. > > > > I didn't see the first few emails in this > > thread so excuse me > > if you have answered this, but what can you do > > on Windows > > that you can't do on FreeBSD. Other than play > > the latest and > > greatest games. I'm just wondering. > > Schwab Streetsmart > Accounting Software (CA) > Quicken > Photoshop > Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) There are a couple of others. I use Adobe GoLive and haven't found an=20 equivalent. I could do some of the stuff better with a text editor but=20 when I use GoLive, the whole update would be finished before I was=20 hardly started using a text editor on FreeBSD. There is also the problem that some sites are designed to work with=20 Internet Explorer. You can try to visit with firefox but that doesn't=20 always work even with firefox on XP. We are still running flash-6 and 7=20 is in the works but I think that they have already announced that it=20 has security problems. The fixed multimedia products are always=20 released on Windows and it takes a while for them to get arount to the=20 other OSes. You only have to look at the people recently with problems=20 getting plugins to work on FreeBSD. You won't have any problem getting=20 them to run on XP. They probably wouldn't work properly on Linux=20 either. Now, I wouldn't use Outlook Express unless I was still working and the=20 company demanded it. I am happy using kmail and thunderbird. But I=20 forward some to my internal XP account because the graphics don't work=20 properly with my setup. =46or a while, I was updating FreeBSD to add security fixes as much as I=20 did my Windows 2K server. Both normally run for months without being=20 rebooted. The OSes usually overlap and as long as I have choices available, I=20 won't have to force a project onto an OS when it is really simple to=20 add it to the one other OSes. That is the advantage of a heterogeneous=20 computing environment. Projects just automagically move onto the OS=20 where it is easiest to work on them. Kent =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA "Nunca te acostar=E1s sin saber una cosa m=E1s" http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html