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Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows

Posted by michael on from the painful-experiences dept.

uninet writes "Most people know what GNU/Linux is, but fewer know about BSD and fewer still have actually used one of the major BSD variants (other than the highly customized Mac OS X). Ed Hurst, a writer and a long time GNU/Linux user, decided to give FreeBSD a try. Will Ed join the ranks of happy FreeBSD users? Find out at OfB.biz." And our own Roblimo, Windows-free for five years, has spent a week learning Windows XP.

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  1. The two are not separate by iamacat · · Score: 1, Troll

    If MS wasn't an evil empire, I would be able to use Windows with a 3rd party office suite, 3rd party browser, 3rd party compilers and so forth. This will, in turn, make Microsoft work hard to make their own applications attractive.

    As it is the case, MS monopolistic practices ruined companies like Netscape and WordPerfect. True there is open source, but after a work day of programming I want pay some reasonable money for pre-debugged software rather than "contibuting".

    I am a happy Apple user and even with 1% market share we have multiple office suites and multiple unique browsers (Safari vs Opera vs OmniWeb vs iCab vs Camino). Miricles would happen with 20% market share.