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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!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!ameritech.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!207.17.0.18!geni018.geninet.com!usenet From: jearl"help cancel SPAM"@box100.com (Jason Earl) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 22:40:01 GMT Organization: Global Entrepreneurs Network, Inc. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3342db5e.22897344@geni018.geninet.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.227.36.92 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19679 comp.os.linux.misc:167654 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38313 On Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:28:01 GMT, lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) wrote: I get a little bit tired of hearing all those claims by NT proponents that UNIX people are anti-establishment weirdos (hey, I am not weirdo), and then I read a post like this: >>There are also the problems associated with tying oneself down to >>one vendor. If Microsoft manages to kill everything else, do you >>think you'll be able to do anything on your computer without Bill >>Gate's stamp of approval? Hell no. Every time you use a Microsoft >>product, you are supporting a technological dictatorship. Sure, Microsoft is in it for the money, and sure they have some decidedly unfair business practices (like giving away Internet Explorer), but I don't think that paranoia (even if it IS justified <grin>) should be the primary consideration when choosing an Operating System. >Give me a break. I know microsoft is trying to dominate everything, >but so what? Their main OS, win95, is leaps and strides easy and more >compatible than any other os out there, and it costs about the same as >relatively cheap software (software from $50-100 is cheap; progs like >pagemaker are expensive [$900]). And for small networks NT isn't bad. >It's more stable than any other OS but Linux or freebsd (pc's, not >damn alphas or sgi onyx2's). It's more stable than OS/2, MacOS, win95, >etc. PC World even did tests, and NT was the only one that didn't >crash. And I doubt that many home users support more than 100 people >on a network or run an ISP. And NT is $200. That's not that bad >considering what u get. Face it boys, MS has made computing easier, >and that isn't exactly bad. I couldn't agree more. NT is "not bad" for small networks. I personally think you could save yourself some aggravation (and several hundred dollars) by using a Linux box or a FreeBSD machine for your server to the MS-Clients, but I would definitely agree that NT would "get the job done." Whenever you start thinking of Microsoft products as evil I think you need some free time away from your machine. It's not a holy war, it's networking. The good thing (if you like Linux or FreeBSD anyway) is that there is very little chance that Microsoft will ever come out with something so cool that development on the free UNIXes will quit. There are just too many people developing stuff for UNIX.