From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 0:17:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA28A37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smaug.rhavenn.net (smaug.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1197943E65 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (33c3543a200fa1397adc24e3679a5566@ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by smaug.rhavenn.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g8G7ARCF010696 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:10:27 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Hudson Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:25:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <00f801c25bc7$714238a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209160557.g8G5vqL77543@tierzero.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <200209160557.g8G5vqL77543@tierzero.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209160225.17660.lists@rhavenn.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Even if I had installed it from a CD, it would have been up and runni= ng > > in a few minutes. A windowed desktop environment under UNIX could ta= ke > > hours or days to set up. > > Total unadulterated crap on both counts. Yup. Not including a X compile I can have a 4.6.2 box installed, compile=20 MySQL, Apache and PHP and serving pages in about 30 minutes. Same box, XP takes about 40 minutes to install and get me a login prompt.= Both=20 OS's require a good hour more of tweaking and fine tuning to make them=20 "secure" or as good as they're going to get in XP's case.=20 Henrik --=20 Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net Note: Beware of Dragons - Thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message