From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 22:57:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 67B5C16A423 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:57:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8F0543D64 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:57:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 17985 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Dec 2005 22:57:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=tljYmSw11mOZK1Zx012FOPXf3h/zAmmCds6PbedvbAcQVbiGHduO958p+/4IFCGymlRNZXL8BqiACGJJZMRlYhdP3yyJznhH9tl3DUPt+3wPaJHKhNOEECN7ms93fcreybOWQfC5HEdYFLCk5DLQQcFJdv2HOAxho8p4LVDSij0= ; Message-ID: <20051224225721.17983.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.46.186.215] by web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:57:21 PST Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:57:21 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom To: rod person , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051224172453.0f080843@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: danial_thom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: BSD Question's. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:57:23 -0000 --- rod person wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST) > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > I don't expect you to care, but saying you > > "prefer FreeBSD" and saying "FreeBSD is > better" > > are different animals. I just wanted to know > what > > you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do > with > > Windows. I already know what I can do with > > Windows that I can't do with FreeBSD. > > > > I didn't see the first few emails in this > thread so excuse me > if you have answered this, but what can you do > on Windows > that you can't do on FreeBSD. Other than play > the latest and > greatest games. I'm just wondering. Schwab Streetsmart Accounting Software (CA) Quicken Photoshop Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are some half-assed alternatives for some of these, but if I have to use something inferior to use FreeBSD then thats a point against it. Also, what you missed, was that I mentioned that you can be relatively sure that any hardware will have drivers for windows, while with FreeBSD you're never quite sure. Its also nice when you get a new printer or scanner to not have a 3 day project to get it to work. The only point I made was that FreeBSD is focused on server functions and that is justified by the simple fact that it will never be as useful as windows; if for no other reason than there simply aren't the resources for FreeBSD to be a good server and also a competitive desktop. DT __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com