From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 9 17:15:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C1316A476 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA61813C48D for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:15:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 81915 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2007 16:49:17 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=M1+PMjLL+YZENLPnr+aM6LaCPgKnExqXDxvqeWIsFljoGbbX0kenwG2qYBCZFsglpDeGvoe4qRpHeYwWL9L3hUhvpUzz6V8bITtoq54TTjn0RnwSPrEDLfoSJiG9StDwtnYcuBGEgXTz0nTDoUbGYpoLd2YfUXyXcZt/5pb/k0U= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.3?) (wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net@70.142.248.62 with plain) by smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2007 16:49:17 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: GW_FW7sVM1nK.A4vtMYORNeGBc32KlXvt4OLT3VOxTh6_lEdTQBz6XEIPkI1cD9VRicQ4E.p9GY3ngz3siLmHSgo6O.QmduSxtvWmVvacaCzLBcQd40ZX5I2v8yl8ur8wfSNpCrBNqhcCvc- Message-ID: <46BB458E.30408@sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:49:18 -0500 From: Robert C Wittig User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <080920071232.28864.46BB09770001C036000070C0220075033008099A0E0B0B0703D20D010D@comcast.net> <200708092234.52861.bastill@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200708092234.52861.bastill@adam.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Convince me, please! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:15:58 -0000 Brian Astill wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:02:55 pm Bob Middaugh wrote: >>> I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but >>> I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful >>> argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be. > The switch will not be particularly easy. You will have to learn UNIX. I started running Linux back in Spring, 2000, while I continued running Windows. In about 2003 I started learning FreeBSD because my web host was using that OS. Now, I am hosting my own web/mail server with OpenBSD, and have FreeBSD on a Desktop machine. I still do maintain a Windows 2000 machine for my graphics workstation, and to run my vintage DOS apps. Over the past seven years, I have become considerably less ignorant about computer, operating systems, networks, etc. This is, in my opinion, a very, very, very good thing... but easy??? Nope. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ .