Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:13:38 +0000 From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <9mpc0vgc4gic7583f59uqg71l9ubsi58bl@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood> References: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood>
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"Chris Fox (Excell Data Corporation)" <a-chrisf@exchange.microsoft.com> = wrote: >Huh? Windows2000 unstable? I don't think I've ever heard that from >anyone except maybe some kiddie on slashdot. W2K is extremely stable >and is more so than most versions of Linux I've used. It's late and you mis-read what I said. Suffice to say it was a hardware problem which the amazing 2k survived. >It's also a lot easier to administer. I'd disagree but it largely depends on from where you're coming. >Anyone who told you to "click" on something to >administer in Windows is someone who probably rides a bicycle with the >training wheels on it. So you've never found yourself trying to explain to a novice MSwindows = user where to click? >Windows is *way* easier to administer than any >version of UNIX, and that includes RedHat and Mandrake Linux. Many would argue. >The barriers to entry in Windows are trivial; the barriers to entry in >UNIX are quite high. Try getting anything done in BSD without knowing >some UNIX editor, and try learning that editor with any expectation that >anything else you know helps. It doesn't. It's deliberately >inscrutable and that does not help get more people using UNIX. Absolutely Not deliberately inscrutable. How can it be when it's open = source? As for barriers, may you never have to try to recover someone's precious = files from a machine running windows 2k with what thankfully turned out to be = failing DDR memory. It was the abysmal recovery toolset on the install CD I was horrified by. Had I not found the fault I would probably have fitted a = FreeBSD HD next :) --=20 John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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