From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 10:22:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EC916A4BF; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC52743FCB; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:3354 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19pWf8-00028E-5J; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:22:22 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:21:14 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-151.acuson.com ([157.226.46.151]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Q0N451BV; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:20:29 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Jeandre du Toit , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:21:32 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1061379040.1442.1.camel@Tarcil> In-Reply-To: <1061379040.1442.1.camel@Tarcil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308201021.32294.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19pWf8-00028E-5J*OCc1hJY/ZmI* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Loving the FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:22:29 -0000 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