Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 19:05:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org> Cc: cjclark@home.com, ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990703185853.370Q-100000@geeky1.ebtech.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907031110550.35392-100000@freedom.cybertouch.org>
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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Lanny Baron wrote: > > In addition to FreeBSD being rock solid, it has the right to claim that it > is a one distribution OS. Unlike linux which has several. > Multiple distributions is a good thing, IMHO. You can pick and choose which one you want, and how you want the system setup. You can't do that with FreeBSD. One thing that must be remembered about Windows, is that it's NOT a multi-user OS. Any support of multiple users is only very vague, and practically unenforceable. It's a kludge that microsoft added on when they started to realize that Windows wasn't just going to be a toy OS to run on the desktop. Unfortunately, it still is a toy, just like Microsoft's favourite language, Visual Basic. WinNT is only suitable for individual desktop machines that do not have multiple users and are in non-critical situations. At Cisco, the 10% or so of employees using Windows account for over 90% of the help desk calls. Not only is it a buggy OS, it encourages users to be dependant on tech support. Now, which is more expensive - a half-hour run through of Linux put together by one employee at $40/hr, or 15 people running a help desk at $30/hr for the rest of the company's life. TTYL! --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul Activating user acumen teleperception subsystem, please stand by... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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