Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:41:06 -0400 From: Jake Roersma <jaker@alcatraz.triton.net> To: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: If you think people use FreeBSD for server, you must've been outta school for long long time! Message-ID: <20010725144106.A11245@alcatraz.triton.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>; from sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 19:09:12 -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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I am glad I am not going or ever went to Virgina tech because for a physics major or professor you are a blazing idiot.. Ever since you've joined this mailing list I've been disgusted with the nonsense you've been ranting about.. If you are not interested in using or aiding in the development of FreeBSD I suggest you LEAVE! -- Jake Roersma Network Engineer Triton Technologies Inc. On 2001.07.24 19:09 Sung Nae Cho wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I know, at Virginia Tech, especially in Physics + > mathematics department, most of us use either Linux, FreeSD, and other > flavors of UNICES for non i386 machines. In we have Windows 2000 > installed for those computers that anyone can surf on internet for info. > Everyone that I know of uses Linux or FreeBSD for his/her desktop use, > not > server use. Why do we prefer to use Linux/FreeBSD over Windows for > desktop use? Well, all the C++/C/FORTRAN/LATEX.... /PDF, GHOSTSCRIPT > converters are all free! For Windows, that would cost thousands of $$. > Plus the simulations run faster on Linux and FreeBSD. Maybe 3 yrs ago, > both Linux and FreeBSD were for servers only. Servers are easy to make! > Now, Linux and FreeBSD are mainly used as a desktop for most people using > it. How many server administrators do you think are in U.S. compared to > the desktop UNIX users? Physics department has 2 server administrator > (they use Redhat Linux) compared to 40 Graduate students, 38 faculties > with 70% using either Linux or FreeBSD. If you keep tieing FreeBSD with > server market, you're only hurting FreeBSD community. Desktop is the > king! I sure don't use much of the server side of the FreeBSD on my > machine. Who cares! However, I expect my FreeBSD to fly when I'm > computing serious problems. If FreeBSD's going to ever survive in this > world, it needs to compete with Linux, Windows, OS X in desktop market! > > > Sung N. Cho > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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