From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 01:48:54 2005 Return-Path: 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 5EFD316A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:48:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168E743D3F for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:48:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1107.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 757CF1C00084 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:48:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1107.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 558E11C00082 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:48:53 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050213014853350.558E11C00082@mwinf1107.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:48:53 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <992422833.20050213024853@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200502121359.53523.bulliver@badcomputer.org> References: <200502112313.28082.hindrich@worldchat.com> <200502121141.07311.bulliver@badcomputer.org> <1443267912.20050212215132@wanadoo.fr> <200502121359.53523.bulliver@badcomputer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:48:54 -0000 darren kirby writes: > That is just not right. Perhaps for Redhat, SuSe et al this may be the case, > but what do you expect? MS is their primary (only?) competition. Whatever happened to UNIX _servers_? > There are a million different reasons to run Linux, and a million > different types of people that run it. There are almost no reasons to run Linux instead of UNIX. > Now you seem to be implying that the only difference between any two > operating systems is what the GUI looks like. No, although sometimes that is actually the case. > So what's your solution, feed the Redmond beast? My solution is to remove emotion from the equation and simply install the best software for the job. On the desktop, that's Windows. > In my experience, the developers are the quiet ones that speak with their > software. There are all sorts of developers nowadays. The days when they were all quiet are long gone. > Again, I am not trolling, and I am not a Linux zealot. I run FreeBSD, > Linux, Solaris and any other free unix I can get my hand on. Why? > Because I think they're cool. All of them. Including Linux. I run operating systems to get work done. -- Anthony