Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:18:25 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@ix.netcom.com> To: Albert Chen <chen6178@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? please give me ten reasons. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216195223.399C-100000@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199812161940.LAA22594@law-f100.hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Albert Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currenlty using FreeBSD. My advisor prefers WinNT, > I telled him to try FreeBSD, but he asked me: > "Why FreeBSD is better than WinNT? give me ten reasons > and I will try it?" I don't know how to answer, > would anyone tell me, thanks. 1. FreeBSD is more efficient, and therefore well suited to high load server environments. 2. FreeBSD has free, good tech support, as opposed to having to buy tech support from M$. 3. FreeBSD is open source, so that if their is a bug found in a program distributed with it or somebody just wants to add some new feature to a program, they can. This means bugs get fixed sooner. 4. Easily customized- differnt shells, different GUIs, re-compilable kernel, easily altered network 5. Cheap- FreeBSD is free, you don't need to buy user licenses like you do with some M$ porducts. 6. Comes with lots of useful, free, well made programs. The ports collection has 1924 programs available on CD or from the Internet. All free. I have on my hard drive free C development tools, not to mention Perl, shell, tcl/tk, C++, lisp. I have networking tools- tcpdump, a firewall, and tcp port wrappers. I have the X Windowing system, a versatile and efficient base for my GUI. All these things would cost me money from M$, and from my experience with M$ they wouldn't work as well. 7. More secure- I once broke in to a WinNT system by accident while hitting random keys on the keyboard (this is true- I did this in front of witnesses) 8. Great documentation- the system comes with manual pages for all the programs that come with it, and if the docs aren't enough you can go read the source to find what you need. 9. The system is verbose. With M$ operating systems, instead of telling you what it is doing it is busy displaying a pretty splash screen. With FreeBSD, the system will tell you everything it can about what is going on- from why a program crashed to the memory address ranges it using to access your video card. 10. FreeBSD has decades of development behind it. The FreeBSD project was started in 1993, but BSD (the Berkeley Unix FreeBSD is based on) has been in development since the very early eighties, and the original AT&T Unix has been in development since the mid 1970's. Hope this convinces your advisor. > > Regards, > Albert -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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