From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 25 13:54:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8613C16A41F for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA71F43D45 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:54:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:54:29 +0100 id 0003982D.43AEA495.00006716 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:54:29 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20051225135429.GA26359@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20051224172453.0f080843@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> <20051224225721.17983.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051224225721.17983.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: Re: BSD Question's. 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: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:54:31 -0000 On 24 Dec Danial Thom wrote: > Schwab Streetsmart > Accounting Software (CA) > Quicken > Photoshop > Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs) > > Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are > some half-assed alternatives for some of these, > but if I have to use something inferior to use > FreeBSD then thats a point against it. NO. It's not a point against the OS. It merely demonstrates why lots of people stay with windows. NOT because the OS is better, but its support by *third party soft-hardware* is better. Windows itself (the OS) is worse than FreeBSD (imho). Those 3th party people are responsable for the leading role of microsoft. Not MS itself. I'm convinced (though not proven yet) that the software you mentioned above will run on FreeBSD (if ported natively to the OS) at least as good, but I guess even better, then it does on windows. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve