From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 4:42:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E57D37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D2643E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (jenny.twenty4help.se [62.20.102.59]) by maile.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8CBgX3M017419; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:42:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3D807D9D.1070104@401.cx> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:42:21 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Bomar Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's References: <20020911232728.GA24843@peitho.fxp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bob Bomar wrote: > I am writeing a paper on the diffrences of various > Operating Systems. Mainly I am looking at Windows > and Unix and Unix-Like operating systems, and Windows > and Mac OS X. > > I am looking to gather information on how and why people > choose an OS. I am also looking to gather information on > why other OS's were not choosen. > > Any opinions are appreciated. > > In my opinion, as a server, FreeBSD is a great choice. > It is fast, reliable, and very well built. But as a > desktop choice, it leaves a little to be desired. > Windows, IMHO will remain a main desktop choice for > a long while, but I do belive that alternative OS's > such as FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, and other will become > more and more popular. As I have been going through > a UNIX course at a local college, I have come to > appreciate Solaris. > > I appreciate any comments that any one has to offer. > > Thank You. > -- Bob > If its my choice, I let FreeBSD power my servers. For web- and mailservers, its outstanding. It does a very good job as a firewall, and using ipfw/natd or ipf/ipnat it sure keeps up with most of the firewall/nat combos out there, including the "hardware" firewall boxes that usually costs a small fortune. Arm it with samba and it can replace most of your NT/w2k boxes, and do the same tasks on cheaper hardware. I think the biggest reason FreeBSD makes such a great server is its ability to take a hell of a beating and still keep going. I've seen fbsd servers keep doing their job and respond in timely fashion, even while running under a load that would kill most os'es on the same hardware. For workstations however, I have to admit that I still run windows. W2k does everything I want my workstation to do, and its relatively stable. Usually, the first thing I do when I boot w2k is to open a few ssh connections to some fbsd machines, and I instantly have the easy of use of windows and the power of Unix at my fingertips. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message