From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jun 26 11:40:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFCB837B8BC for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 47744 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2000 18:40:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 26 Jun 2000 18:40:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 4843 invoked by uid 211); 26 Jun 2000 18:40:21 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:10:21 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000627001021.B4789@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: David Johnson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <85256907.0054D783.00@Deimos.smed.com> <39541EE8.EBD5BDDF@newsguy.com> <20000624092439.A31497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <39579B45.9FAC1820@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39579B45.9FAC1820@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:04:53AM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test2 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Johnson said on Jun 26, 2000 at 11:04:53: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > Daniel C. Sobral said on Jun 24, 2000 at 11:37:28: > > > > > * Because it isn't as forgiving of errors as Windows. > > > > I keep seeing this one and also "it's not as easy to administer as > > Windows". Both of which are nonsense (imo). Any unix has so many > > inbuilt safeguards that it's *much* more forgiving of errors than > > windows -- > > ... > > I think you sidestepped the point. Windows will forgive you of your > error and blithly go right ahead and destroy itself. Yes, I suppose that's what I really meant. The difference is "do your bidding and forgive you the error" versus "stop you shooting yourself in the foot and forgive you the error". Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message