Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:28:25 -0400 From: Joseph Gargery <joseph_gargery@operamail.com> 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: <p04330106b783b488f327@[209.195.2.99]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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troll. i thought you promised to switch to linux. please leave. goodbye. >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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