From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 10:45:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8558116A4BF; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ukpost.com (ns0.ukpost.com [217.158.120.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2285C43F85; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rama@ukfsn.org) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (pop3.ukfsn.org [217.158.120.143]) by mail.ukpost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3758C1F802C; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:42:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from ukfsn.org (unknown [81.5.144.97]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D38CE6A85; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:39:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3F43B393.3010609@ukfsn.org> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:44:51 +0100 From: Ramanan Selvaratnam User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David References: <1061379040.1442.1.camel@Tarcil> <200308201021.32294.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200308201021.32294.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loving the FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rama@ukfsn.org List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:45:04 -0000 Johnson David wrote: >On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:30 am, Jeandre du Toit wrote: > > > >> i would like you to keep you os of my front porch. if i see >>windows in or near my house again there will be trouble. >> >> > >Hee hee! > >I just built myself a new computer, and Windows is one of the OSs that >will run on it. My first experience with Windows XP leaves me less than >thrilled. > >Formatting a 20Gig UFS2+Softupdates partition: less than five seconds. >Versus. Formatting a 20Gig NTFS partition: ten minutes. > >Installing FreeBSD 5.1: about ten minutes, with zero reboots. Versus. > To be fair and clear -- With a GUI 'desktop' environment and all in ten minutes? >Installing Windows XP: 52 minutes, plus two reboots (fewer reboots than >with 98 though!). > >Security advisories: FreeBSD 5.1 none that affect my system. Versus. >Windows XP + SP1 + about 40Megs of critical updates. I haven't even >gotten around to the fixes for those two internet shattering worms that >hit during the last two weeks. > >Setting up a DVD player in FreeBSD: install MPlayer and everything just >works. Versus. Setting up a DVD player in Windows XP: Try Windows Media >Player 9.0. Media Player crashes. Try "demo" version of WinDVD. Doesn't >work. Still haven't gotten DVD playback to work under Windows yet. > >Yes, I need more technical savvy to use FreeBSD. But since I already >have some small modicum of technical savvy, the choice for me is clear. >The only thing keeping Windows around for me is a tiny handful of >applications and the occasional game. > Important -- you missed the important comparision about the system respecting the user's freedoms. Less important -- Never run MS-Windows (if you have to) without Anti-Virus/Worm software (from Microsoft recommended vendors) if connecting to the internet :-) Regards, Ramanan