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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.sprynet.com!not-for-mail From: lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:55:02 GMT Organization: Sprynet News Service Lines: 35 Message-ID: <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hd68-223.compuserve.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19505 comp.os.linux.misc:166923 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37975 >1. Allow remote command-shell logins. >2. Completely interact with programs running remotely (this includes > windowing applications.) But all these are too slow to be useful if ur on a 14.4 or 28.8. >3. Heavy-duty security, ESPECIALLY in the realm of keeping users out of > other users' stuff. (NT does have fair security, to be completely > fair -- but I'd still trust my stuff to UNIX any day.) That is nice. >4. The need to buy everyone a Pentium-200 with 32 MB of RAM disappears. That's one of the main reasons I have linux along w/ win95. >5. Need a certain functionality? Chances are it's already there on the > Internet, for FREE. 95/NT users are lucky to get something in a > time-limited demo. Most modern UNIXes come with this stuff > preinstalled. >6. Free development tools come standard and are updated for free. I know. Like gcc. But dos has djgpp, which is the same thing, just ported. >7. Stay up for REALLY long periods of time and not be any worse for it. So can NT. >8. People running UNIX aren't at the mercy of Microsoft. Chances are if > something needs to be changed with the O/S, some independent programmer > will do it. WinNT an 95 aren't at ms's mercy. And if u want to change the OS, you can. What's there to stop you?