From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:13:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409030213.i832D9J17857@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:10:27 BST." <20040902091027.GC23610@lb.tenfour>
Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> writes:
> > Seriously, though, I can understand why they might not be in a hurry
> > to push something like Plan 9, but (a) if this is funding new development,
> > why not pick a technically superior platform? (b) why Linux? Why not
> > one of the BSD distributions? (c) Can't technology win just this once?
>
> Linux admins are two a penny?
At that level, are there really that many differences between Linux
and FreeBSD? I was a Unix sysadmin for a bunch of years, and I usually
found it easier to keep BSD running than Linux, but at the end of the
day there wasn't too much difference between them. Maybe I'm too old
school or something.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-03 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-01 14:48 boyd, rounin
2004-09-01 17:57 ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-01 17:59 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-01 20:39 ` Tim Newsham
2004-09-01 21:16 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-01 21:45 ` C H Forsyth
2004-09-02 3:24 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 3:31 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-02 4:24 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 5:15 ` Jeff Sickel
2004-09-02 5:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-09-02 6:24 ` Zigor Salvador
2004-09-03 2:10 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 19:27 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 20:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-02 22:44 ` Adrian Tritschler
2004-09-03 3:00 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-03 3:01 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 5:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-09-02 5:13 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-02 9:10 ` Dick Davies
2004-09-03 2:13 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2004-09-03 2:38 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-05 0:30 ` Dick Davies
2004-09-05 0:31 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-05 1:11 ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-05 2:50 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 14:26 ` ron minnich
2004-09-02 21:48 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-09-02 22:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-09-03 0:21 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-09-03 0:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-09-03 4:39 ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-03 2:53 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 9:40 Aharon Robbins
2004-09-02 9:44 ` Dick Davies
2004-09-02 10:11 ` lucio
2004-09-02 10:52 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-02 11:21 ` lucio
2004-09-02 18:32 ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-02 22:58 ` Adrian Tritschler
2004-09-02 15:11 ` Sam
2004-09-02 19:51 ` boyd, rounin
2004-09-02 22:06 ` geoff
2004-09-03 2:33 ` Dan Cross
2004-09-02 10:37 Aharon Robbins
2004-09-02 11:10 ` lucio
2004-09-02 18:54 ` dvd
2004-09-02 19:20 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-09-02 21:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-02 21:55 ` Boris Maryshev
2004-09-03 5:20 ` dvd
2004-09-03 6:22 ` lucio
2004-09-03 7:49 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-03 17:48 ` Jack Johnson
2004-09-03 17:52 ` ron minnich
2004-09-03 18:22 ` dvd
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409031316170.22793-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>
2004-09-03 19:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-09-03 21:11 ` dvd
2004-09-03 20:48 ` dvd
2004-09-03 20:52 ` ron minnich
2004-09-03 21:15 ` dvd
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