Ramiro Aceves writes: > How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes?
Most companies that write operating systems don't do a very good job of it on the first few tries. The older Mac OS (the one that preceded Mac OS X) was of the same generation as 16-bit Windows 3.x, and had the same defects. That doesn't mean that Apple was "untrustworthy," only that it couldn't afford to build a new OS from scratch. Today, most operating systems are a net loss financially. You have to depend on the peripheral effects of the OS to make up for the loss of creating it. > My girlfriend has got WinXP professional (is it sopoessed to be NT > base, is not it?) and from time to time she calls to me horrified to > say that she has a new problem with her machine: viruses, spyware, > malware, things that suddenly stop working, etc. I start trembling > each time it happens. :-/ You need to change girlfriends, not operating systems. If she would stop clicking on e-mail attachments, reading HTML e-mail, visiting questionable sites, and so on, she would not have problems with viruses, spyware, or anything else. These things do not ship with the OS. > We have to live with that. No, we don't. Some of us just skip the GUI and run more stable and secure systems in consequence. Servers don't need GUIs. > Linux and FreeBSD do it perfectly, as it have the same software > collection. Good. > If the Winbugs were well designed that should not happen. Exactly the same thing was happening long before Microsoft ever existed. > For me Linux/FreeBSD works, why should I use Windows? You should use whatever works. But for most people, the things they wish to do require Windows. > Windows is not free, I have to pay money and I do not have the source > code. That's true for most of the world's software. Writing it all off because it's not free and you can't look at source is an extreme and unnecessary sacrifice in most environments. > Why should I pay for software that it is a like a "black box", > when I can use great free OSes? Because it does what you require? > I can not afford paying a license for every piece of software I use. Some licenses are really cheap. I believe the record for low cost in my case was $5 for a shareware product. > How can I use the GIMP, xcircuit, pcb without a GUI ? Well, you can just use _equivalents_, just as people suggest to me when I point out the necessity of Windows. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
