Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:50:26 -0500 From: "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com> To: "John Bleichert" <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <007301c25b88$b9083d40$32040101@hume> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209112012550.1224-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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Alright, my turn.. I started out as a DOS 6.2 user. I got pretty proficient in basic DOS use but then Windows 3.11 was released, my parents bought their first pentium machine and I was hooked. It just seemed sooo much easier to use than DOS. Then Win 95 was released and at that point we had just upgraded the family machine. Wow. Then my brother was given a machine with win95osr2 and things got steadily better. he decided to upgrade to win98..bad idea. at that point my interest in computers went from purely play to actually wanting to understand them. and, win98se crashed way too much. i got sick of the win family after win nt 4 and switched to redhat...long story shorter..i got sick of redhat, moved to freebsd, and have been sold on the freebsd family ever since. I think, as someone who is not specifically trained in one or the other OS, that it is purely left to interest as to what OS gets used or doesn't get used. I still use Windows 2000 as my main workhorse, but will forever use freebsd for security and routing. It comes down to support and application availability as well...there just are not the same amount of apps available to the bsd or *nix families as are available to windows. So, what it comes down to is: Use whatever you are most comfortable with, no matter what anyone else tells you. Just my 0.99 --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bleichert" <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:47:54 +0300 > > From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> > > To: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org> > > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's > > > > On 2002-09-10 23:53, Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org> wrote: > > > I am writeing a paper on the diffrences of various Operating > > > Systems. Mainly I am looking at Windows and Unix and Unix-Like > > > operating systems, and Windows and Mac OS X. > > > > > > I am looking to gather information on how and why people choose an > > > OS. I am also looking to gather information on why other OS's were > > > not choosen. > > > <snip> > > > > Nobody can start listing differences, and include them all :-( > > > > At least, not without some help from you. You can probably find many > > people willing to help you, if you start browsing the web sites of > > those operating systems that you are interested in comparing, and then > > build a questionnaire of some sort, that people can use to provide > > answers to the specific parts of the various systems in question. > > > > I'm sorry if this isn't exactly quite helpful. > > > > - Giorgos > > > > To define an appropriate opsys for a given user, you need to define the > user first: > > * internet user (mail, www) > * gamer > * pro developer > * home hacker/hobbyist > * home office user > > or any combination of the above. *Then* choose an opsys for that user. > Hell, for the first type any inexpensive appliance will do - they don't > need the same box a hobbyist or developer does. For that reason (on such > an appliance) the opsys should be free, small and almost irrelevant as > long as it runs the www apps. On a standards-compliant internet, this is > possible. Maybe someday we'll have one. > > A hobbyist, however, will want muscular hardware and one (or more ;-) > flexible operating systems to run on it. > > To choose an opsys, you need to know the user's requirements. > > HTH - JB > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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