From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 19:28:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E719B37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rochester.rr.com (roc-66-24-71-185.rochester.rr.com [66.24.71.185]) by mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f0U3OUw20815 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:24:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A7634C0.757735B0@rochester.rr.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:28:00 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux (some venting) References: <20010122065047.29559.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> <3A763468.E1D8F9A@rochester.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve M wrote: > > > What I mean by "Microsoft tint" is prefaced by......... > > If no one minds I'll chime in with an opinion, since it seems to me this discussion is verging slightly off it's > intended path. Also I'll play a little devils advocate here as well. I dont have 'programming' experience in > either of the OS'. I just do perl scripting at work on Sun OS but here is what I've gathered from my > 'experience' with the various OS'. > > The *nix OS' lack sufficient documentation for the average user. I'm a little above the average user so I've > been able to stumble along getting a Linux box to run. At work I have a Linux box and found it has just as > much frustrating moments as my WNT. For example one time I was composing an email on my Linux > box in Netscape via my email provider. I hear the disk grinding along when all of a sudden my browser > goes MIA. WTF!!. I never bothered to figure it out because I was just so disgusted with it. BTW the > Linux is RedHat. > > Windows is the most trouble free for my minor uses of PCing, surfing the net and putting together these > emails. But for development stuff that I do at work and would like to do at home I wouldnt dream of > Windows in any form. It is waaay too much of a resource hog with too many fluffy add on's for my tastes. > > My frustration with OS doesnt end there, FBSD has proven to have it's draw back's as well. Namely my > current lack of sucess in getting my internet connection up and running, along with my Xwin looking weird > and me not being able to play my music CD in Xwin (something about permissions). But the Xwindows > will have to wait until I can connect to my internet. > > So what keeps me coming back for more?, well I can actually see where it is I'm going wrong with Linux > or FBSD and I can 'get under the hood' to fix it. Sometimes it is necessary due to lack of proper > documentation....atleast we have these lists. Or maybe it's the false hope that this provides...... > > I'm not a geek nor do I profess to be one, I just dont have the time to putz around with a minor thing as > compared to MS's way of doing something. > > But I dislike MS for their business practices if anything, they totally insist on doing things in such a way > that is to pretend there is no other way besides their way. > > Thanks for letting me vent and I hope I've got this stupid email formatted in a readable form. > > FWIW, > Steve M > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Having started playing around with computers in the early 80's with CPM then with CROMIX (CPM) with unix like commands Then to Linux for a couple of years 93-94 then to NetBSD on a VAX box then to FreeBSD for the last 4 or 5 years. I can say that the thing I hate about Linux is configuration its difficult without using a gui i.e.; knowing which file under /etc/sysconfig /etc/rc /etc/rc0.d Whatever to edit !! With FreeBSD for all the basic stuff you just edit one file .. /etc/rc.conf very simple IN fact almost every configuration file that would need to be edited will be in /etc and/or /usr/local/etc. As far as Windows I don't really know much about it I have tried learning it but its not very intitutive(as far as setting up). Unfortunately I am forced to use it because I need to use special software when I service Large Screen TV's at work. I am a Tv repairman by trade. Mostly I work with computers at home as a hobby. Dave Just my 2 cents worth regarding OS comparisons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message