From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 2:15:56 2002 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 0222A37B40A for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF4C441E8 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 01:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g8E8JQB18037 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:19:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00f801c25bc7$714238a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209132037.40608.bts@babbleon.org> <00e201c25b88$9c7af960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209132054.56504.bts@babbleon.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:19:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian writes: > But that's not a fair comparison of the O/S. It's the comparison that a normal user makes, and that's what counts. > What you are saying here is "Windows XP cam > pre-installed; FreeBSD did not." Even if I had installed it from a CD, it would have been up and running in a few minutes. A windowed desktop environment under UNIX could take hours or days to set up. > My experience when I have had to actually > *install* Windows has frequently been worse > than my experience installing FreeBSD. Maybe, but since FreeBSD is a server once installed, and Windows is a desktop environment, it doesn't matter. > The *best* semantics for these were implemented > by AmigaDOS. Maybe, but AmigaDOS is effectively dead. BLACKER has good security, too, but nobody runs it on the desktop. > Many programs lots of people use don't work, > but other programs that perform the same tasks > as well if not better frequently do. But those aren't the programs that people use, as you admit yourself, and so it doesn't matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message