From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 1 0:27:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bootes.ebtech.net (bootes.ebtech.net [142.250.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904E3155DD for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@geeky1.ebtech.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bootes.ebtech.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id CAA27591; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:45:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (paul@localhost) by geeky1.ebtech.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id CAA11959; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:47:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:47:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson To: Ulairi Cc: Newbies Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000801bec38e$b26b4760$29c4edd0@ulairi> 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 Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Ulairi wrote: > NT is about 7 years old. Give it time, > perhaps it'll grow up a tad. > And it's already a huge kludge. The problem is that Microsoft won't admit to itself that UNIX is, in fact, the pinnacle of operating system interface design. It is powerful, easily learned(contrary to popular opinion), stable, and effective. UNIX has been going through 28 years of massaging by knowledgeable programmers and sys admins - guess who specifies the OS features at MS? The marketroids, that's who. Whereas UNIX's(including FreeBSD and Linux) development has been driven by those that use it, NT is driven by suits that couldn't tell the difference between a hard drive and a baseball bat.(Even if they where simultaneously pummelled with both, har har) As I said in comp.os.linux.misc recently, Win2000 will most likely wind up like a fat, slow epileptic elephant shot full of crack cocaine and trying to waltz during an earthquake. One can only get a program so messed up before a complete rewrite is necessary, and for windows that rewrite has been about a decade overdue. TTYL! --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "Ask not for whom the tolls." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message