From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 09:24:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21818 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21801 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA09820; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:19:28 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA19433; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:31:23 +0200 Message-Id: <199609141631.SAA19433@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:31:23 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (freebsd-questions) Subject: Re: dos vs unix In-Reply-To: <323A3CAA.11F8@alaska.net>; from hmmm on Sep 13, 1996 22:03:38 -0700 References: <323A3CAA.11F8@alaska.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.42 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hmmm writes: > i work surrounded by people with tons of dough > (un-civil "servants") that hate me for jumping > "off the edge of the cliff" and "doing my own thing" > with FreeBSD as opposed to NTeverywherehere. is there > any ammo out there that i can shoot back with? Look everyone straight into their eyes and ask them if they payed for the license - every seat. FreeBSD costs nothing - near to ;-) There were some NFS performance benchmarks some time ago (Network Computing Mag.). Sun Expert (Aug. 96 issue) had a positive mentioning on FreeBSD having the world's best TCP/IP stack. (some such) Runs MBONE tools, has Multicast routing. Runs Linux binaries, multimedia applications. As other Unices, can be maintained remotely via login which NT still cannot as of today. You have to go and sit at every NT machine to administer it. Runs a networked graphics system, named X Windows. The plethora of free software available from around on the globe. Has a wonderful ports collection giving you the most popular of those software packages at your fingertips anmd lets you install it upon kind of push-of-a-button. Can act as a Fileserver to a bunch of networked Win PCs via SAMBA thus making NT server obsolete (not quite when thinking of the unholy NT domain concept). Major sites (e.g. Walnut Creek - cdrom.com) are running ftp servers for around 1200 simultaneous users. FreeBSD is a very good and stable Web Server platform (Apache server). > > preferably a brief, concise, mind-blowing doc! Perhaps Bill Gates bank account excerpt :-) -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de