From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <200409030213.i832D9J17857@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <200409030213.i832D9J17857@augusta.math.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dick Davies Subject: Re: [9fans] UN to fund linux for the 3rd world Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:30:45 +0100 To: Dan Cross Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: de07871c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On 3 Sep 2004, at 03:13, Dan Cross wrote: > Dick Davies 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