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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!xara.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!136.142.185.26!newsfeed.pitt.edu!news.pgh.net!panda From: andrew thius <athius@envirolink.org> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 29 Mar 1997 18:24:58 GMT Organization: U of Iowa Panda System Lines: 48 Message-ID: <859659793-6-9882@manatee.envirolink.org> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> Reply-To: athius@envirolink.org NNTP-Posting-Host: envirolink.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19524 comp.os.linux.misc:166974 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38001 In note <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu>, behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes: >Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: > >: > Those willing to give up functionality for ease of use >: > loose both and deserve neither. > >: What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? > >I'm assuming you mean off-the-shelf, as opposed to buying first your OS >and then buying millions of incompatible add-on products which usually >don't seem to fit the bill anyway. Here's a short list, by no means >exhaustive: > >1. Allow remote command-shell logins. >2. Completely interact with programs running remotely (this includes > windowing applications.) >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.) >4. The need to buy everyone a Pentium-200 with 32 MB of RAM disappears. >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. >7. Stay up for REALLY long periods of time and not be any worse for it. >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. > >and finally, the MOST important, > >9. Adherence to OPEN (yes, OPEN, not locked up in some > multi-thousand-dollar MSDN subscription) standards. 10. not have to reboot when you change anything in networking in the control panel... cant even change my freaking ip without rebooting >I'm positive many more people can come up with many more examples. In >fact, I'd like to see them. > >-- >Matt Behrens <behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu> | NOTICE: Unsolicited commercial > http://www2.gvsu.edu/~behrensm/ | advertisements sent to these >Zigg Computer Services <zigg@iserv.net> | addresses are subject to a $500 > http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/ | fee, pursuant to US Code Title > Custom PC's - Consulting - Web Design | 47, Sec. 227(b)(3)(C).