From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 1:35:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E9C37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D67943E65 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 6540 invoked by uid 417); 12 Sep 2002 08:35:47 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 08:35:47 -0000 Received: from planb ([216.194.2.204]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:35:46 -0600 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:35:46 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Bob Bomar Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-Id: <20020912043546.75f33c80.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <20020911232728.GA24843@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20020911232728.GA24843@peitho.fxp.org> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:27:28 -0400 Bob Bomar wrote: > 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. I use FreeBSD as a desktop (am I the only one who does? :-) ), and find it quite useful, and more easy and elegant to administer than Linux. (Linux = easier to install, FreeBSD = easier to maintain.) In everything except running the latest commercial games FreeBSD is a win; it even offers more choices in certain Internet client apps (not to mention server applications) than Windows. GNOME and KDE are too slow and try to immitate Windows without offering real improvements however for a GUI. I prefer to use Windowmaker, a NeXT clone, which is fast, easy to configure, and beautiful. I guess it depends upon what your needs are. If your main tasks are using the internet, learning software development, and you love Unix then FreeBSD is a great choice. If you need to run the latest games and have an insecure and uninspired mess as your OS then Windows has a place. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message