From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 13 10:32:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1ED14E44 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 10:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA13768 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 10:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <373B0C90.1AC5485C@seattleu.edu> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:32:00 -0700 From: Eric Hodel Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FUD ... in massive proportions ... References: <14138.62089.249839.692489@hip186.ch.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Reynolds~ wrote: > > I'm sure alot of you saw this on /. ... > > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/nt4vLinux.asp > > WOW what a bunch of FUD ... I'd love to see how ftp.cdrom.com would hold up > if the same hardware was used with NT 4.0 ... -NOT- > > Sheeesh .... Does Linux not support NIS? "No centralized security - users must manually synchronize user accounts across servers" I like the statement 37% less expensive...26% less expensive...27% less expensive. Where do they come up with these numbers? "Extensive internal and external beta testing to ensure binary compatibility across services and applications." So THATS why it took me 4 hours to figure out how to get a dos program running on NT4 that worked out of the box on a 95 machine. OOOH GUI BASED TOOLS!! Just how does NT have "Broad language support inlcuding java" when it has no C compiler, primitive batch scripting, no java compiler, no perl... -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message