From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 14:38: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFD837B404 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:37:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16fTkh-0005jM-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:37:47 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:35:49 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bill Schoolcraft Subject: Re: Presentation of UNIX to an ignorant crowd In-Reply-To: <3C7AB833.5060600@owt.com> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 At Mon, 25 Feb 2002 it looks like Kent Stewart composed: > > johann@broadpark.no wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I'm about to hold a lecture on UNIX to people who don't even have the faintest > > idea of what it's all about. > > > > The utter perimeter of their knowledge halts at performing government-related > > tasks in Windows 98. > > > > My job is to convince them that UNIX -- using Mandrake on workstations and > > FreeBSD on servers -- is the way to go. In other words teach them the truth, > > and make them convert. > > > I think you are ignoring the fact that FreeBSD works really well as a > workstation. You also have code control of the entire system, which > Linux does not have. You get a kernel here and mods there and end up > with a patched system. FreeBSD is a solution and stands alone. It > depends on Linux because many of the ports come from there. > I agree. I personally use FreeBSD all day along with Linux and Solaris-8 (sparc|intel) and that would be a close call on which one I'd choose for a display to newbies. Because of RedHat's and Mandrake's printer setup and modem setup I "might" lean the newbies that direction but then there is FreeBSD's /usr/ports which is the best thing since "sliced bread" in my eyes. You have a tough call there. Personally I run both but that would be too difficult to show the dual-boot install "BUT" showing up with two machines, one dual booted and one for installation would be nice. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 4 32098+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 5 68 514080 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 69 540 3791340 83 Linux /dev/hda4 * 541 1027 3911827+ a5 BSD/386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message