Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:21:32 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Jeandre du Toit <jeandre@itvs.co.za>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loving the FreeBSD Message-ID: <200308201021.32294.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <1061379040.1442.1.camel@Tarcil> References: <1061379040.1442.1.camel@Tarcil>
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On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:30 am, Jeandre du Toit wrote: > i would like you to keep you os of my front porch. if i see > windows in or near my house again there will be trouble. Hee hee! I just built myself a new computer, and Windows is one of the OSs that will run on it. My first experience with Windows XP leaves me less than thrilled. Formatting a 20Gig UFS2+Softupdates partition: less than five seconds. Versus. Formatting a 20Gig NTFS partition: ten minutes. Installing FreeBSD 5.1: about ten minutes, with zero reboots. Versus. Installing Windows XP: 52 minutes, plus two reboots (fewer reboots than with 98 though!). Security advisories: FreeBSD 5.1 none that affect my system. Versus. Windows XP + SP1 + about 40Megs of critical updates. I haven't even gotten around to the fixes for those two internet shattering worms that hit during the last two weeks. Setting up a DVD player in FreeBSD: install MPlayer and everything just works. Versus. Setting up a DVD player in Windows XP: Try Windows Media Player 9.0. Media Player crashes. Try "demo" version of WinDVD. Doesn't work. Still haven't gotten DVD playback to work under Windows yet. Yes, I need more technical savvy to use FreeBSD. But since I already have some small modicum of technical savvy, the choice for me is clear. The only thing keeping Windows around for me is a tiny handful of applications and the occasional game. David
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