Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:23:59 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Mikael Claesson" <miclaes@hotmail.com>, <FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Switching from Linux Message-ID: <00b001c090bd$d12a4180$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <F96lWjOgZ8G00udy4ja00012543@hotmail.com>
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As far as I can tell, virtually every application of significance works in FreeBSD, with considerably improved reliability. The documentation is infinitely more intelligible than linux equivalents although its still dreadful compared with the Sun & the SCO offerings. I guess the main attraction however is the reliability. Its often claimed that FreeBSD is the most stable server platform of the lot ... the fact that a number of the busiest sites on the net run FreeBSD certainly seems to confirm this. We used to have a bunch of RedHat & Debian servers but the downtime was definitely reduced by changing to FreeBSD. Personally I can't imagine using FreeBSD for workstations though ... the GUI offerings are virtually the same as linux .... extremely poxy ... and getting halfway usable color printing from "common or garden variety" bubblej!!et printers is still akin to witchcraft. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikael Claesson" <miclaes@hotmail.com> To: <FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:02 PM Subject: Switching from Linux > I've been using Linux as a desktop system for some time now, but I'm getting > interested in BSD. What you should have is a big fat link on your front page > that reads "Using Linux? Wanna switch?" and a nice section on the > differences a resular user would need to know. > > Me, I'd like to know if I can still use Gnome, XMMS, Mozilla and all the > other things I've gotten used to. I'd never switch if I'd have to give any > of them up. > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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