Flame war threads, and threads that become repetitive are always terminated. Everybody knows that. Other than that, there is no reason for this thread to become a Windows vs Linux vs FreeBSD thread at all. So don't try.
kpedersen said:*I tried Mac OS X for a few weeks but realized that as soon as a new Mac OS X comes out, Apple and the rest of the world completely stops supporting the previous version making it useless for anyone other than children.
ckester said:Yeah, I got burned by that too. I bought one of the first Mac Mini's because I wanted to see what they were able to do with Unix under the hood. But now they've abandoned support for PowerPC CPU's and forced me to decide between buying an Intel Mac or switching to another OS altogether. More and more software for the Apple is for Snow Leopard only and won't run on my old machine.
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The only Mac app I'll sincerely miss is OmniOutliner. There simply isn't anything in the Unix free software world that compares.
ckester said:So guess what, I've been buying little Intel Atom boards and putting FreeBSD on them.
kpedersen said:Hmm that is very interesting. Do they come with required things like vga out etc? Or do I need to be a hardware hacker to get most use out of them?
Could you please post some links of the places you get your hardware from?
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zspider said:I took it on a vacation and it worked 100% of the time.
kpedersen said:Lol, that is a sure test for a robust operating system, because normally *EVERYTHING* breaks on holiday
ckester said:...even the BMW vs Mercedes question is objectively answerable...
Even with suid unset X must run as root. It just gets root privileges by some other means...zspider said:kinda sad in NETW class in college the professor was going on about how Windows Server was more secure than Linux because the gui will crash the server if someone tries to mess with it...:stud. But I seem to remember on FreeBSD you can choose to compile xorg without the suid bit so it does not run as root Windows Server was alright but id rather have *BSD/UNIX any day.
aragon said:Even with suid unset X must run as root. It just gets root privileges by some other means...
As for your professor's argument, you should tell him that unlike windows, Linux/Unix doesn't need (and shouldn't have) a GUI to be a fully functional server.