Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:19:26 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <00f801c25bc7$714238a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020911035308.GA90385@peitho.fxp.org> <200209132037.40608.bts@babbleon.org> <00e201c25b88$9c7af960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200209132054.56504.bts@babbleon.org>
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Brian writes: > But that's not a fair comparison of the O/S. It's the comparison that a normal user makes, and that's what counts. > What you are saying here is "Windows XP cam > pre-installed; FreeBSD did not." Even if I had installed it from a CD, it would have been up and running in a few minutes. A windowed desktop environment under UNIX could take hours or days to set up. > My experience when I have had to actually > *install* Windows has frequently been worse > than my experience installing FreeBSD. Maybe, but since FreeBSD is a server once installed, and Windows is a desktop environment, it doesn't matter. > The *best* semantics for these were implemented > by AmigaDOS. Maybe, but AmigaDOS is effectively dead. BLACKER has good security, too, but nobody runs it on the desktop. > Many programs lots of people use don't work, > but other programs that perform the same tasks > as well if not better frequently do. But those aren't the programs that people use, as you admit yourself, and so it doesn't matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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