From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 15:48:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10F1106566B for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-151.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-151.bluehost.com [67.222.39.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6827C8FC12 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:48:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 6746 invoked by uid 0); 20 Mar 2008 15:48:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy5.bluehost.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 2008 15:48:13 -0000 Received: from c-67-165-217-249.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.165.217.249] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JcN00-00067N-RE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:48:13 -0600 Received: by demeter.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:48:13 -0600 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:48:13 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: User Questions Message-ID: <20080320154812.GA26515@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: User Questions References: <000001c88a5c$82d01b40$887051c0$@com> <59945.203.127.42.92.1205999937.squirrel@www.superhero.nl> <47E21DD1.9000806@skoberne.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <47E21DD1.9000806@skoberne.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 67.165.217.249 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:48:20 -0000 On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:18:25AM +0100, Nejc Škoberne wrote: > >everything you run on windows can be run on Freebsd and more. > > Huh? AFAIK FreeBSD can not act as a domain controller for an Microsoft AD. > And this is something you would need in a company full of Windows boxen. You're thinking of it from the wrong direction. FreeBSD can serve the same role to other Unix and Linux boxen that MS Windows can to other MS Windows systems. > > And don't tell me I can throw away Windows and install FreeBSD on hundreds > of clients (with so varying hardware that even Windows has problems > sometimes). Why not? There's hardware on which FreeBSD will run and MS Windows will not, y'know. It goes both ways. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Isaac Asimov: "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."