Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD... Message-ID: <604255.75125.qm@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080320154812.GA26515@demeter.hydra>
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It's been my experience that finding drivers for hardware created for open source operating systems by developers within the communities is quite easy, while such community doesn't exist for windows and you are 100% reliant on the vendor to supply working drivers. If they supply crap drivers, go out of business and stop providing any, etc, you are simply out of luck, while with an open source model it is likely that someone will have kept development going if the vendor ever even did produce drivers for those systems. There's very little in the way of modern hardware that isn't supported by FreeBSD. The one time I ever ran into unsupported hardware, a quick update of -STABLE brought the necessary support in the driver. The fact is that political BS aside, for 90% of workers, FreeBSD/KDE/openoffice/firefox will meet their needs just as well as windows, and in fact if you start with something like PC-BSD --- Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:18:25AM +0100, Nejc > Å koberne 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." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
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