Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:30:35 +0530 (IST) From: gagan_grewal@vsnl.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Selling FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.20030607213035.gagan_grewal@vsnl.net> In-Reply-To: <20030606221839.GO31266@thingy.apana.org.au>
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Hi Folks ! Paul Robinson (paul@iconoplex.co.uk) [030606 19:09]: > If they aren't enthusiastic, it's because it's not solving any problems for > them. The fact it works great as a high-traffic MX or HTTP server isn't > something most businesses need. As for desktop use, well, it does suck > compared to something like Mandrake for an average run-of-the-mill office > worker. Even Mandrake sucks a little bit compared to Windows XP these days. Well ... I was tempted to comment ! Have been using Linux for more than 4 years now. Tried almost all of the major distros. FULL SCORE to Debian ... nothing else comes even close. BUT, Debian is indeed a little difficult to install. But once you have faced the music ... Debian steals the show. And what do I think abt FreeBSD (started using it only 1 week ago) ? - FreeBSD is much much easier to install than Debian. - It is easier to add or remove packages in FreeBSD than Debian - Almost all other commercial Linux distros are sucky !!! - And in this last week, anything I did was to do websurfing looking out for FreeBSD resources ... Believe me ... (atleast) the web surfing speeds are VISIBLY FASTER than what I experience in RedHat/Netscape or Debian/Mozilla combo - And I stepped on this cute MUA called xfmail ... and am using it with a lot of comfort till I figure out how to configure Exim/fetchmail/mutt combo - Overall ... the FreeBSD experience has been good till now :) - And ofcourse, the best part ... less than 15 seconds run from boot to login ... thats just soooo nice :) Regards, Gagan. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: gagan_grewal@vsnl.net Date: 07-Jun-2003 Time: 08:58:37 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
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