Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:11:18 -0800 From: "Chris Fox (Excell Data Corporation)" <a-chrisf@exchange.microsoft.com> To: <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>, <newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood>
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From: John Murphy [mailto:jfm@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 12:56 PM
To: newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD or Linux?
>Yup. I've never tried a Linux variant myself; sometimes tempted but...
I've just 'looked at' a friends win2k PC which was _very_ unstable.
Trying to get some low level access to it was a nightmare, as is trying
to explain to someone how to do any kind of configuration to a Microsoft
OS via email "Left click Start..."
Huh? Windows2000 unstable? I don't think I've ever heard that from
anyone except maybe some kiddie on slashdot. W2K is extremely stable
and is more so than most versions of Linux I've used. It's also a lot
easier to administer. Anyone who told you to "click" on something to
administer in Windows is someone who probably rides a bicycle with the
training wheels on it. I do Linux, BSD, and Windows and while I prefer
the unices for anything network-related, and while I don't gloss over
Windows' real weaknesses of MS' business practices, I won't sit back and
let this go unremarked: Windows is *way* easier to administer than any
version of UNIX, and that includes RedHat and Mandrake Linux.
The barriers to entry in Windows are trivial; the barriers to entry in
UNIX are quite high. Try getting anything done in BSD without knowing
some UNIX editor, and try learning that editor with any expectation that
anything else you know helps. It doesn't. It's deliberately
inscrutable and that does not help get more people using UNIX.
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