From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 22 18:13:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0CD37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow058o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5315643EE6 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx ([62.31.198.203]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:13:38 +0000 From: John Murphy To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD or Linux? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:13:38 +0000 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: <9mpc0vgc4gic7583f59uqg71l9ubsi58bl@4ax.com> References: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood> In-Reply-To: <0A0B36F65A314D4AB8D2CF1D1FD835F1014058EA@df-muttley.dogfood> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Chris Fox (Excell Data Corporation)" = 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