From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 16:14:58 2003 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 2B63716A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mrout1.yahoo.com (mrout1.yahoo.com [216.145.54.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7D643FE1 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steffl@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com (woodpecker.corp.yahoo.com [207.126.234.69]) h92NEOrO094678 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F7CB150.8030507@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:14:24 -0700 From: Erik Steffl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031002220418.LUAL1821.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <20031002220418.LUAL1821.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:14:58 -0000 Robert G. Waycott wrote: ... > undeniably human character, a inexplicably spectral quality of > being 'alive,' that is far more apt to aid a user solve a problem > or resolve a conflict or learn something new than sending a not to > Redhat, use FreeBSD. Whoa, that turned a bit proselytic. Sorry. religion... prety much all the unix & unix-like systems are more or less same - some are somewhat better for particular purposes. if you need fairly heavy hw you'd probably be better of using e.g. solaris. etc... my point is that evangelizing one of these systems over another is somewhat missing the point of unix - interoperability, portability etc. e.g. at this point my favourite system is debian linux - but that doesn't mean I am not quite happy using freebsd at work... (or solaris at previous work... or even sco unix and interactive unix back in times when there was no linux or free bsd systems (at least I didn't know of any)... or ultrix). it's all the same. one can support more processors, one has better driver support, one has extra good security record etc. and it changes as these systems evolve... erik