Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:54:49 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <200209130754.49828.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org>
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:53 pm, Bob Bomar wrote: | I am writeing a paper on the diffrences of various | Operating Systems. Mainly I am looking at Windows | and Unix and Unix-Like operating systems, and Windows | and Mac OS X. | | I am looking to gather information on how and why people | choose an OS. I am also looking to gather information on | why other OS's were not choosen. | | Any opinions are appreciated. | | In my opinion, as a server, FreeBSD is a great choice. | It is fast, reliable, and very well built. But as a | desktop choice, it leaves a little to be desired. | Windows, IMHO will remain a main desktop choice for | a long while, but I do belive that alternative OS's | such as FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, and other will become | more and more popular. As I have been going through | a UNIX course at a local college, I have come to | appreciate Solaris. | | I appreciate any comments that any one has to offer. I prefer FreeBSD as my desktop O/S, and I've never supported a server. Why? Well, it really comes down to personal prefernce. Berkeley Unix was the first "real" o/s I ever used, back in 1981. (Previously I'd used Dartmouth Basic and Waterloo's Widget O/S.) So it fits the way I'm used to working. Partly I really hate to repeat mundane and tedious tasks--I figure that's what the computer is for. Thus, I prefer to have everything easily controllable through a command line so that it can scripted. This philosophy carries over consistently; thus, I use "plan" as my calendar program because it allows command-line entering of appointments as well as doing them via a GUI. Partly I hate inexplicable crashes and the need to reboot every time I install something. Mostly I like a system that allows me to set up things just as like them and automate and customize my system until it's just the way that I want it. And Windows and Macintosh (at least until OS/X) simply don't offer that. FreeBSD does. Linux comes close, but I like FreeBSD better (especially the ports, packages, and kernel configuration method) than the Linux distributions I've used, and many of the Linux distributions have gotten too damned "user friendly", meaning that it's impossible the find the actual scripts that control the computer. Besides, FreeBSD offers the Linux emulation feature so I don't have to give up the wide variety of Linux software out there yet I can still get the benefits of FreeBSD. But Linux is the only other serious contender for me. (Actually, AmigaDOS is the other O/S I like and I understand that it runs on non-Amiga hardware now, but I'm also sure that the software availability for it would be far lower than for FreeBSD.) -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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