From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 3:59:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00FE037B442 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 03:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b181.otenet.gr [212.205.244.189]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fATBxQr17735; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:59:27 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fATBxOI75877; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:59:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:59:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011129115922.GA75539@hades.hell.gr> References: <15365.11290.211107.464324@guru.mired.org> <006101c17854$c6aa2570$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <01112817112006.13219@prime.vsservices.com> <016301c17888$c1be3cc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <016301c17888$c1be3cc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-11-29 04:48:41, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > Please point those parts of the Windows architecture that make is > > superior as a desktop system. > > See above. The lack of a multiuser environment is usually an advantage as well, Why? > > Again, outside of more applications, please tell me how MS Windows > > is a better desktop platform at the architectural level than > > FreeBSD. > > I already have, several times. But even if I had not, having more > applications is already _more than enough_ to make it a better > choice. "More applications" for what definition of "more" and "applications" ? > This is a very bad sign, as it means that the X server is not > secure. No wonder it crashes the system. For what definition of "secure"? It needs to do stuff to the system console, that the kernel of the OS does not know (or does not care about). This seems to be modular, but insecure? -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message