Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 03:51:13 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <017a01c2929b$2ff2c260$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <008501c2917a$ac643080$0a00000a_atkielski.com@ns.sol.net> <200211221502.gAMF2a6a089963@catflap.bishopston.net> <20021122234047.GB60785@wantadilla.lemis.com> <014201c29296$f9cc4a20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021123023624.GA97416@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos writes: > The contortions through which you had to go > to quote the above text (and then manually > rewrap it to such a short line width), are really > not necesary when you use better tools than > Outlook Express for mail. I don't see how that it relevant to the discussion. > This probably seem irrelevant at first ... Yes, see above. > ... but if you read it in context of what Greg > has pointed out above, you'll notice that a > point is made. No point is made, except that you have a personal preference for some e-mail program other than Outlook Express. There are thousands of e-mail programs available, so you have your choice. I still don't see the connection to the discussion at hand, however. > Doing exactly the same thing (write a page of text > with lines shorter than 70 characters) is a ton of > work in Outlook, and a pair of keypresses away in > a Unix tool. E-mail is composed and sent with e-mail client programs, not operating systems. > You are not following your own suggestion. Why > are you presenting only the weaknesses (or at > least, a rough outline of the weaknesses) of these > two environments and never mention any of their > strengths? Perhaps you haven't read all of my posts. I've consistently praised UNIX where its strengths reside, namely, as a server. > Then one that needs to compare Windows to UNIX > would have to do a comparison of a great number > of operating systems. It would be a good idea, if practical. > Are you suggesting that you know everything about > all of them when you are implying that Unix is not > good as a desktopo and Windows is not good > as a server? No, I'm _stating_ that I have no emotional investment in the use of any operating system, and I simply use the best OS for the job. On my three computers, I run Windows NT, Windows XP Home Edition, and FreeBSD UNIX. The XP machine is purely a destkop. The NT machine is much more a desktop than a server, although I have a few services running on it as well. The UNIX machine is exclusively a server. My router appears to run a stripped version of UNIX--or something UNIX-like--as well, but I'm not exactly sure what it is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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