From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 08:45:22 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 6624237B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.vsnl.net (smtp3.vsnl.net [203.200.235.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227DD43FB1 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gagan_grewal@vsnl.net) Received: from enigma.net ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp3.vsnl.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with SMTP id <0HG4005B7BF5MR@smtp3.vsnl.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:07:55 +0530 (IST) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:30:35 +0530 (IST) From: gagan_grewal@vsnl.net In-reply-to: <20030606221839.GO31266@thingy.apana.org.au> Sender: gagan@enigma.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Subject: Re: Selling FreeBSD 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: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 15:45:22 -0000 Hi Folks ! Paul Robinson (paul@iconoplex.co.uk) [030606 19:09]: > If they aren't enthusiastic, it's because it's not solving any problems for > them. The fact it works great as a high-traffic MX or HTTP server isn't > something most businesses need. As for desktop use, well, it does suck > compared to something like Mandrake for an average run-of-the-mill office > worker. Even Mandrake sucks a little bit compared to Windows XP these days. Well ... I was tempted to comment ! Have been using Linux for more than 4 years now. Tried almost all of the major distros. FULL SCORE to Debian ... nothing else comes even close. BUT, Debian is indeed a little difficult to install. But once you have faced the music ... Debian steals the show. And what do I think abt FreeBSD (started using it only 1 week ago) ? - FreeBSD is much much easier to install than Debian. - It is easier to add or remove packages in FreeBSD than Debian - Almost all other commercial Linux distros are sucky !!! - And in this last week, anything I did was to do websurfing looking out for FreeBSD resources ... Believe me ... (atleast) the web surfing speeds are VISIBLY FASTER than what I experience in RedHat/Netscape or Debian/Mozilla combo - And I stepped on this cute MUA called xfmail ... and am using it with a lot of comfort till I figure out how to configure Exim/fetchmail/mutt combo - Overall ... the FreeBSD experience has been good till now :) - And ofcourse, the best part ... less than 15 seconds run from boot to login ... thats just soooo nice :) Regards, Gagan. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: gagan_grewal@vsnl.net Date: 07-Jun-2003 Time: 08:58:37 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------