Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:01:41 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Message-ID: <000a01bffbfb$b1fc2c80$1adf7ad1@beefstew> References: <000b01bff0cb$f90fe8e0$57e17ad1@beefstew> <39749BDA.8E6A214B@acuson.com> <00a101bffbf9$f88f42b0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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SCO has the rep. of being the best documented - is this true? ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>; leegold <goldtech@worldpost.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view > I have a bunch of FreeBSD gateway boxes running > around the city and they have proved extremely reliable > and certainly more efficient than the few WinNT / Win2000 > ones .... however the problems I experience trying to figure > out every change to the system have me seriously thinking > of moving to SCO which at least comes with a proper > manual (ie with ALL the information one needs readily > available) From my experience, the lack of quickly available > config information is a major reason why many enterprise level > business stick with commercial O/S'es ... OK I know there are > places like Walnut Creek etc, but what about the countless > others who can't afford the problems associated with a product > with incomplete docs. > > As for the GUI stuff, few enterprise level businesses will accept > anything as poxy as KDE or Gnome (what bright spark had the > idea of putting that ugly great paw icon there) If I don't make the > move to SCO I'll be looking seriously at the CDE stuff for FreeBSD, > two things I certainly won't use are KDE & Gnome ... who needs to > be associated with the linux lunatic fringe !!!!! > > > > 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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