From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 26 10:59:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04880 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04872 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:59:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from mustang (pm3g-5.pacificnet.net [207.171.35.54]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19486; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:57:58 -0800 (PST) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:57:39 -0800 (PST) From: Joey Garcia X-Sender: bear@mustang To: james huckle cc: "'FreeBSD Newbie Submission'" Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] In-Reply-To: <4B5AD1A1DC97D1118E720060976D80F40DDB@msx.xch.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, james huckle wrote: > Hi, > > I'm get a little sick of all this MS bashing. Sure, the product IMHO > usually sucks and is bug ridden but people buy it and people have to > support it. People like pretty windows to type into and will use these > products at the expense of resilience. > I have done some MS bashing in the past, pretty much just because I don't like monopolies. Don't think they're fair. But, (I maybe ignorant on the subject) I have not seen any drivers or support on FreeBSD for all the cool things that Windows 95/NT can support. Microsoft has support for USB, alot of video cards, TV cards, soundcards, etc. And it's easy as hell to install. I often think to myself, "Considering that most free unices doesn't support all the cool new things, how can I explain to a Windows user that Unix is better?" I came across this when trying to explain to a computer vendor that I didn't want or need the USB and the ATI All-In-Wonder-Pro because the OS that I run doesn't support it. He asked what I ran, and I said Linux. But then again, maybe there is support for all the kewl new harware and I just don't know it. *shrug* That's where I feel that I lie Ignorant...aww hell I'm ignorant on alot of things, every one usually is. I feel that ignorance is just an excuse, or reason, to learn what you don't know about. :) Peace, Bear > I work for an X400 service providor and have to use products from ALL > the major vendors, both client and server. Without doubt, MS product is > both the easiest to install and the most difficult to > configure/administer and remove. > > I don't think that it's a preqrequisite of using non-MS products to slag > MS stuff. Some MS stuff is OK (suprisingly) in the workgroup/office > enviroment and there is more choice of apps on MS OS. > > When the email/internet/networking hype/explosion dies down a little, > I'm sure that the extended protocols of some vendors will win other > others (see DRDOS/DOS, windows/OS2). > > Lets make the world a little more feature rich :) > > James =================================================== Joseph Garcia Downey, CA bear@pacificnet.net "Dont drink and drive, you might spill the beer." =================================================== > 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