From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 23 20:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7864C37BB1C for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 38186 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2000 03:54:47 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 24 Jun 2000 03:54:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 31574 invoked by uid 211); 24 Jun 2000 03:54:39 -0000 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:24:39 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Joe.Warner@smed.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000624092439.A31497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Joe.Warner@smed.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <85256907.0054D783.00@Deimos.smed.com> <39541EE8.EBD5BDDF@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39541EE8.EBD5BDDF@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:37:28AM +0900 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel C. Sobral said on Jun 24, 2000 at 11:37:28: > * Because it isn't as forgiving of errors as Windows. I keep seeing this one and also "it's not as easy to administer as Windows". Both of which are nonsense (imo). Any unix has so many inbuilt safeguards that it's *much* more forgiving of errors than windows -- with windows any user can easily screw up the whole machine. And as for administration, how many people have an unmaintained windows machine running for weeks, let alone months or years? The way you use windows is to run it as for as long as it works, and then reinstall. With that approach any OS is easy to administer. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message