Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:27:16 -0400 From: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com> To: sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu, 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: <LAW2-F26NjWOiy54DgI000077ec@hotmail.com>
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A sidenote: 1. Your tools are actually free on the Windows platform. Most of the developers do ports and you can run most Unix tools on Windows platforms. 2. FreeBSD was originally designed to be a SERVER NOS. You can use it for desktops/laptops but that was not its purpose of design (as a "desktop" operating system in relation to Windows 95/98/Me/NT/Pro). You will notice that Windows NT Server was designed for that but not the Win 9x line. I use FreeBSd as a dul server and desktop machine very nicely. 3. Reliability, stability, performance - I give FreeBSD as much reliability as a Solaris desktop/server in both areas of concept (desktop vs. server). Unix is not perfect and does crash if you are trying to use it as a desktop more than as server. I've had a Netscape session lock up my Solaris desktop pretty bad. I've seen Solaris servers stop working for strange reasons and disconnect from the network. I PAY for Solaris (grrr!) but FreeBSD is totally FREE and I get just as good as the support off this newsgroup than I do off of my PAID solaris support contract!!!! FreeBSD is actually a very nice FREE version of Unix which can be used as a professional business server like Solaris. I run FreeBSD for my home NOC and Solaris at work. You can have several thousand connections in which I would have to pay $1K-$10K for licenses and connections. No thanks. Thanks to FreeBSD, I almost have a penniless NOC. Ken _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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