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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!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:26:04 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19443 comp.os.linux.misc:166486 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37782 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. 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).