Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...
- From: mdh <mdh_lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:57:01 -0700 (PDT)
It's been my experience that finding drivers for
hardware created for open source operating systems by
developers within the communities is quite easy, while
such community doesn't exist for windows and you are
100% reliant on the vendor to supply working drivers.
If they supply crap drivers, go out of business and
stop providing any, etc, you are simply out of luck,
while with an open source model it is likely that
someone will have kept development going if the vendor
ever even did produce drivers for those systems.
There's very little in the way of modern hardware that
isn't supported by FreeBSD. The one time I ever ran
into unsupported hardware, a quick update of -STABLE
brought the necessary support in the driver.
The fact is that political BS aside, for 90% of
workers, FreeBSD/KDE/openoffice/firefox will meet
their needs just as well as windows, and in fact if
you start with something like PC-BSD
--- Chad Perrin <perrin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:18:25AM +0100, Nejchttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
Å koberne wrote:
Freebsd and more.everything you run on windows can be run on
controller for an Microsoft AD.
Huh? AFAIK FreeBSD can not act as a domain
And this is something you would need in a companyfull of Windows boxen.
You're thinking of it from the wrong direction.
FreeBSD can serve the same role to other Unix and
Linux boxen that MS
Windows can to other MS Windows systems.
install FreeBSD on hundreds
And don't tell me I can throw away Windows and
of clients (with so varying hardware that evenWindows has problems
sometimes).
Why not? There's hardware on which FreeBSD will run
and MS Windows will
not, y'know. It goes both ways.
--
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org
]
Isaac Asimov: "Part of the inhumanity of the
computer is that, once it is
completely programmed and working smoothly, it is
completely honest."
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