BSD Question's.

[Danial Thom]

--- rod person <rodperson at adelphia.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0800 (PST)
> Danial Thom <danial_thom at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I don't expect you to care, but saying you
> > "prefer FreeBSD" and saying "FreeBSD is
> better"
> > are different animals. I just wanted to know
> what
> > you could do with FreeBSD that you can't do
> with
> > Windows. I already know what I can do with
> > Windows that I can't do with FreeBSD.
> > 
> 
> I didn't see the first few emails in this
> thread so excuse me
> if you have answered this, but what can you do
> on Windows
> that you can't do on FreeBSD. Other than play
> the latest and
> greatest games. I'm just wondering.

Schwab Streetsmart
Accounting Software (CA)
Quicken
Photoshop 
Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDFs)

Those are the ones I use daily. Surely there are
some half-assed alternatives for some of these,
but if I have to use something inferior to use
FreeBSD then thats a point against it. 

Also, what you missed, was that I mentioned that
you can be relatively sure that any hardware will
have drivers for windows, while with FreeBSD
you're never quite sure. Its also nice when you
get a new printer or scanner to not have a 3 day
project to get it to work. 

The only point I made was that FreeBSD is focused
on server functions and that is justified by the
simple fact that it will never be as useful as
windows; if for no other reason than there simply
aren't the resources for FreeBSD to be a good
server and also a competitive desktop.

DT


		
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