From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 21:35:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7208F37B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D22243E6A for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thanatos@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 68678 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 04:35:32 -0000 Received: from 1-0-401.adsl.vcnet.com (HELO vcnet.com) (209.239.236.203) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 04:35:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3D7EC7FA.7030402@vcnet.com> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:35:06 -0700 From: Thanatos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Bomar Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 > I have been using FreeBSD as my primary development platform for just over two years now. Basically, here are my reasons ( not in any order ) ... ( basically all my expirence of late is on FreeBSD or various versions of windows ) 1. I am responsible for all perl code to display content to users on our website. We use Apache, FreeBSD, mod_perl, Mason and MySQL. I am also responsible for two business system, both running the same setup except for mod_perl. All together I have 5 virutal servers running. Running FreeBSD allows me to to work on any system at any time. If I was running a windows os I would not be able to work unless I was connected to the home office, which is not always possible. I dont run Linux as our architecture is FreeBSD and I want to mirror it exactly. 2. Stability 3. Speed 4. I don't have to reboot whenever I do something .... ( You have booted your machine, you must reboot cause I like you watch you screem ) 5. Various other reason that include stuff like .. try coping a bunch of stuff on windows and pull the ethernet cable for a couple of seconds, the system will generally crash ( especially on win98 ) .. coping anything on windows is _generally_ slow .. only have one desktop ( have 8 on my freebsd box ) .. windows is slow on silly things, like opening up explorer to find files .. share a drive on win2k and it automatically makes it world readable + writable .. security issues .. virus issues .. the list goes on and on. About the only thing that I use windows for is gaming as *nix os's just don't compare because no-one writes _real_ 3D accelerated code for the video cards. ( Don't take that personally anyone!, I've tried, never got Mesa 3D to work ) I used to use Macs a bunch but not since Mac OS 8.6. Hope that gives you some insight. Thanatos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message