Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 07:48:46 -0500 From: Rick Morel <rmorel@morelr.com> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD and NT... Why????? Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970726124846.00924290@mail.morelr.com>
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Come on gang, let's not be MS or FreeBSD bashers or whatever. They're different. That's all. If you want to take a long trip, you take your LTD or Capri or whatever; if you want to haul some plywood you take your pickup. For round town driving, you may prefer the pickup and your spouse or SO the LTD, or vice versa. I'm a recent UNIX convert for a _SERVER_. If my very own, personal workstation had to run it, I'd get out of computing entirely (I'm using NT). My wife prefers Win 95 (she used to be a diehard DOS fan). This is _my_ decision and _her_ decision. You may think we're (insert cuss-words of your choice here) for feeling this way, and that's fine. I'm certainly not going to force or convince you to use NT, or DOS, or even UNIX -- please give me the same courtesy. Here at morelr.com, every service save two are running on FreeBSD. One is an NT web service strictly for running CGIs -- mainly for one user who does his with MS VB. The other is DNS. I'm fixin' to get ready (Southern for trying to find the time) to put BIND on the FreeBSD box. I may decide to stick with NT -- it certainly is easier and seems to work well. Let me add that my ISP is using BIND on NT (I'm also my ISP). I was running FTP on NT, but thanks to a bunch of folks on this list, it's now switched. At aisp.net (my ISP) we're running all NT except for the news server. I fought and fought for the last year, trying to get it to work right (using Netmanage News) with no luck. I finally _insisted_ to the new NT-loving owners (I'm an ex-owner and still Sys Admin) that we switch. Yes, Virginia, it's been up and running without a hitch for over a week. I suspect it's going to be in the same state in the future. Oh, it is _SOOOOOO_ nice! :-) kxkc.com (I'm C.E. there) is a very simple site. Web, email and FTP, all running on one NT box. Works well, they don't need or do anything fancy. Has one dial-in for connections from another office. No problems, needs to be rebooted about once a month.. when I think about it. So, really who cares? This list is for FreeBSD, to share info and help each other out. Isn't it? Why argue about which OS is best or which OS is garbage? Why even _mention_ NT? I'm on an NT list for that. Rick Morel * * * * * * * * * * * * **** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rick Morel * # # # ### ### * * Morel Research, Ltd. * # # # # # * * New Iberia, LA * # # # # * * * # # # # # * * http://www.morelr.com * # # # ### ### * * * * * rmorel@morelr.com * * * * Keep It Simple Stupid! * * * * * * * * * * * **** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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