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 :) -- John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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