From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 28 13:58: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E047337B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:58:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from piwebs.com (t-indiv5-88.athome.tue.nl [131.155.241.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02B9243E75 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 1209 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2002 21:57:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.105) (192.168.0.105) by 0 with SMTP; 28 Oct 2002 21:57:54 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen (by way of Arjan van Leeuwen ) Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux For Managers... Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:57:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210282257.53291.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The most important things are, I think: - Easier to manage (ports system, clear hierarchy, no different distros) - More open license (BSD license) - Build on years and years of BSD UNIX coding & knowledge - Lots of resources available on a central place (the handbook and other stuff on freebsd.org) Hope this helps, Arjan avleeuwen@piwebs.com On Monday 28 October 2002 22:11, Johnson David wrote: > A coworker and I are planning on replacing about 20 LynxOS lab workstations > with FreeBSD. We originally chose LynxOS because that's what our embedded > products use. But its getting too expensive to support it on workstation, > and they're difficult to maintain. > > I stepped up to the plate and set up a prototype workstation with FreeBSD, > with an identical look-and-feel to the other workstations (mwm, development > scripts, etc), and created a step-by-step guide to installation and > configuration. > > The sole purpose of these workstations is to connect to our embedded > products via cu. > > We are all set to go to roll out FreeBSD to the other lab workstations. But > some Linux advocate in the company is starting to raise a stink (even > though he is unwilling to help in the conversion and subsequent > maintenance). Now the manager in charge of the machines wants a report on > why FreeBSD was chosen instead of Linux. Sigh. > > So what good reasons translated into Manager-ese can I present? > > Thanks, > > David Johnson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message