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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Subject:   Re: Suggestion
Message-ID:  <201203111123.54809.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120311035326.GC23967@hemlock.hydra>
References:  <BAY171-W64121B6717CA5192AF5C7A88540@phx.gbl> <201203102331.33701.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <20120311035326.GC23967@hemlock.hydra>

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Hi,

I think that your irony detectors got damaged while reading my post. I am sorry for this.

On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:53:26 Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:31:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote:
> > > 
> > > ALL of Windows' problems are precisely based on poor design... just to
> > > name a few:
> 
> > > - apps re-write system libs at will
> > 
> > Isn't this another masterpiece FreeBSD is far off achieving?
> 
> I'm not aware of any cases where installing or firing up an editor, web
> server, or mail user agent alters base system libraries.  I think you are
> mistaken.
> 
Isn't this a cool feature?
> 
> > 
> > > - no lib versioning
> > 
> > I think that you are wrong here. It a long time ago but I think I
> > remember they put a version number into the library name.
> 
> I read "no lib versioning" as meaning "we don't get the same support for
> being able to use multiple versions of a library for different purposes,"
> but maybe I'm mistaken.

How can you say this?
> 
> > > - no filesystem-based security
> > 
> > FAT rules!
> 
> Uh . . . what?

It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ...
> 
> > > - default network protocols are insecure
> > 
> > Windows has meanwhile default network protocols? I think, I have to do
> > some catching up.
> 
> I suspect this was a reference to things like SMB/CIFS and other common
> networking protocols and toolsets on MS Windows systems.

Is this all in there by default?

Erich



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