Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:17:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some questions re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000626091412.16722A-100000@spectre.honk.org> In-Reply-To: <20000624092439.A31497@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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- M - On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Daniel C. Sobral said on Jun 24, 2000 at 11:37:28: > > > * Because it isn't as forgiving of errors as Windows. > > I keep seeing this one and also "it's not as easy to administer as > Windows". Both of which are nonsense (imo). Any unix has so many > inbuilt safeguards that it's *much* more forgiving of errors than > windows -- with windows any user can easily screw up the whole > machine. And as for administration, how many people have an > unmaintained windows machine running for weeks, let alone months or > years? The way you use windows is to run it as for as long as it > works, and then reinstall. With that approach any OS is easy to > administer. I agree. I recently took a 3-day crash course in Windows 2000 administration, and I have to say that it's *scary*. If you don't plan properly, it's possible to sabotage your entire enterprise unknowingly, with one small design error. At least Unix gives you the flexibility to correct your mistakes down the road. M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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