From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c06204090418117a4e7e2a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:11:50 -0700 From: Jack Johnson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200409030213.i832D9J17857@augusta.math.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: de150a86-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:30:45 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > > 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. > > By Linux, I meant RedHat, since that seems to be the one PHBs have > heard of., unfortunately. The main sysadmin pain is rpm rather than > ports > or pkgsrc system - Debian's apt being slightly less objectionable > (but who uses that)? At work, we use Debian "stable" exclusively for our Linux installs just because it seems to be the most sane/stable, but we're not chasing commercial software vendors and it's all server-side stuff, so no UI feature envy by users or anything of the sort. For the *BSDers in the crowd who might be forced to support Linux, I can't personally recommend it but this seems very promising: http://www.crux.nu/ Looks like BSD-style initscripts, ports, everything you'd expect except the kernel and GNU utils everywhere. Speaking of which, anyone using plan9ports on Darwin (sans Aqua)? My wife's iBook just went Tango Uniform (looks like the logic board issue, even though I *thought* the serial # is out of range) and now I'm hunting for HFS+ support.... -Jack