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#! rnews 2812 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 31 Jul 1995 07:37:37 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corp Lines: 51 Message-ID: <3vi181$j4u@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3us0rg$7ph@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3usrgl$9uk@felix.junction.net> <3utfha$3ll@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <id.LFWL1.LL3@nmti.com> <3vgo2b$6vk@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozyd13-p3.ozy.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:3vgo2b$6vk@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) wrote: >Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote: >: In article <3utfha$3ll@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, >: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: ..blast of NT. I cannot argue either way I do not know enough about NT in everyday use or sysadmin details. From a kernel point of view NT is certainly better documented than any UNIX I have everr worked on. However I think you have missed the point: it is not me who said this, the US government has declared that NT is an Open System therfore putting NT in direct competition with UNIX. As to whether sysadmin's jobs will be more difficult I have no opinion. The fact is that two very large goverment/military groups have already stated that they will change from UNIX to NT. Like it or not the "perception" is that the average computer user will find NT easier to use than UNIX. Perhaps also the increased sysadmin time was offset against the time required by the more numerous "average user" to come to grips with UNIX versus the more familiar NT. A second reason would have to be the relatively inexpensive apps and development tools for NT versus the ridiculous cost of similar UNIX tools even if available. Again this was not a deabate as to which OS is better but rather what should be done to FreeBSD to make it better. It seems that GUIs are popular (understatement intended!) Question is should FreeBSD adopt a GUI development strategy and if so based on what technology ? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dr Jon Jenkins Location: Digital Equipment Corporation NaC Voice/Fax: 61-7-55-75-0151/100 Burnett Place, Research Park, Inet: jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com Bond University, Gold Coast Close Proximity: "HEY YOU !!!" QLD, AUSTRALIA 4229 "Daddy, what's outside the Universe?" (My 5 year old.....) -----------------------------------------------------------------------