Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:50:23 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'chen6178@hotmail.com'" <chen6178@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? please give me ten reasons. Message-ID: <084DD226F592D211988800A024AC583B02B776@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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>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. > >Regards, >Albert Hello Albert, I won't give you any more reasons, because by looking at the list you've probably already had about 100. But, maybe your advisor is keen on sticking with WinNT because that's all he knows. If you are new to unix (Im not saying you are), then FreeBSD (or any other unix) may not 'hold your hand' as much as WinNT. In my opinion, the only advantage that win95/98/NT has over FreeBSD is the quality of the 'office' software. (word, excel etc). We do have staroffice, which is very good, (and free for non-commercial use), but I don't think it has the edge over Micro$oft yet. It may do in the future though. Of course, this is irrelevant for a server machine. Do you know about the excellent Samba package? We use it exclusively here at work for all our file and print sharing (albeit running under SunOS). Have a look at <http://samba.anu.edu.au>. Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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