From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 13 12:35:58 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 E769837B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0590A43E42 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 17078 invoked by uid 417); 13 Sep 2002 19:35:38 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 13 Sep 2002 19:35:38 -0000 Received: from planb ([216.194.2.204]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:35:36 -0600 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:35:45 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Brad Knowles Cc: bulldog@fxp.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-Id: <20020913153545.3e06ca31.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:43:44 +0200 Brad Knowles wrote: > > In my opinion, as a server, FreeBSD is a great choice. > > Yup. Even today, I would not use MacOS X as a server. > > > It is fast, reliable, and very well built. But as a > > desktop choice, it leaves a little to be desired. > > As do all *nix OSes, save possibly MacOS X. I use Windowmaker, a NeXTstep clone, under X Windows; so I get the NeXT interface we like without having to buy expensive Mac hardware. (Though if I earned more $$$ I think I'd get a Mac Powerbook laptop. :-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message