Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:31:04 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: If you think people use FreeBSD for server, you must've been outta school for long long time! Message-ID: <20010724201822.F89566-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241856460.19087-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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Yes, I have been out of school for a long long time. Therefore I
know that there's a lot more to the world than school junior. In
the real world where my income, my partners' income, and my
employees income depend on the reliablility of the service we
sell I need a reliable server OS and FreeBSD is it. Without
servers there are no network services. If you ever grow up and
go out into the real world you'll know what that means.
There are plenty of desktop OSs out there so pay the fiddler and
use one of them. Or, since you have the source, write your own
local mods to make FreeBSD do what you want, either way stop
being a troll.
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Today Sung Nae Cho wrote:
> As far as I know, at Virginia Tech, especially in Physics +
> mathematics department, most of us use either Linux, FreeSD, and other
> flavors of UNICES for non i386 machines. In we have Windows 2000
> installed for those computers that anyone can surf on internet for info.
> Everyone that I know of uses Linux or FreeBSD for his/her desktop use, not
> server use. Why do we prefer to use Linux/FreeBSD over Windows for
> desktop use? Well, all the C++/C/FORTRAN/LATEX.... /PDF, GHOSTSCRIPT
> converters are all free! For Windows, that would cost thousands of $$.
> Plus the simulations run faster on Linux and FreeBSD. Maybe 3 yrs ago,
> both Linux and FreeBSD were for servers only. Servers are easy to make!
> Now, Linux and FreeBSD are mainly used as a desktop for most people using
> it. How many server administrators do you think are in U.S. compared to
> the desktop UNIX users? Physics department has 2 server administrator
> (they use Redhat Linux) compared to 40 Graduate students, 38 faculties
> with 70% using either Linux or FreeBSD. If you keep tieing FreeBSD with
> server market, you're only hurting FreeBSD community. Desktop is the
> king! I sure don't use much of the server side of the FreeBSD on my
> machine. Who cares! However, I expect my FreeBSD to fly when I'm
> computing serious problems. If FreeBSD's going to ever survive in this
> world, it needs to compete with Linux, Windows, OS X in desktop market!
>
>
> Sung N. Cho
>
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