From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
To: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Cc: 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: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:30:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D38ADFBA-FED2-11D8-A638-000D93696D52@hellooperator.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409030213.i832D9J17857@augusta.math.psu.edu>
On 3 Sep 2004, at 03:13, Dan Cross wrote:
> Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> writes:
>>>
>>> (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.
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)?
But as an earlier poster mentioned, that's a dollar of marketing for
you...
--
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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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
2004-09-03 2:38 ` George Michaelson
2004-09-05 0:30 ` Dick Davies [this message]
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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