Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:39:20 -0500 From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Cc: "'DougB@gorean.org'" <DougB@gorean.org> Subject: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CCD@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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Guys, I did NOT mean to slam Linux. I just wrote about my own experience
with it, just my opinion, that's it. I am thankful to Linux, any experience
even good and bad is still experience, it's a process of learning. At least
I learned how to partition hard drive, how to mount filesystem. And learned
very basic commands.
May be dozens of my unsuccessful attempts to install Linux, helped me to
install FreeBSD successfully. In my opinion recent distributions of Linux
just making learning a little bit harder. I took a look at RedHat 7.0
distribution, and for my surprise I did not find anywhere inetd &
inetd.conf. They replaced it by xinetd. If by modifying inetd.conf I can
secure y computer somehow by disabling services, I did not find how to do
it in Redhat 7.0, I am sure there is the way. But it would be much nicer to
have inetd and inetd.conf (even man pages are missing). But as always
FreeBSD has it.
Doug, I would not aim Microsoft also. This is business. And nothing evil.
Personally I do not like Microsoft products, they are unstable. But no one
makes you to use them. Bill Gates did not come to people with automatic gun
and tell them: "Hey Folk, buy Microsoft Products, or I will shoot you !".
It's people who made Microsoft gigantic corporation. No one makes you to buy
products, if you don't like it- do not buy it and do not use it. Easy as
1,2,3.
Thanks.
Andrei.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Barton [mailto:DougB@gorean.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:54 PM
To: Victor R. Cardona
Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Victor R. Cardona wrote:
> It is good to here stories like this. I am a FreeBSD newbie, and so far
> am very impressed. I cannot slam Linux though. It got me started with
> UNIX.
That's an excellent attitude to have. Linux is not our
enemy. There are some (ok, IMO a lot) of things that we do better then
they do, and there are some things they do better than we do. If you need
an enemy, aim at microsoft. And not because they are closed source,
because the company itself is evil, and uses its market position to
unfairly supress competition and creativity.
Doug
--
"The dead cannot be seduced."
- Kai, "Lexx"
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