Re: [Nolug] MEETING TIME AND LOCATION

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 04:41, Eddie Benson wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:00, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> > > It pains me to hold a mostly different personal opinion than that of a
> > > man who would quote the
> > > great Merle Haggard...oh, well to each his own.
> >
> > Do you mean my "opinion" regarding *BSD, or Berkley, or both?
> >
> > I really have no animosity towards *BSD, and even though I run Debian,
> > have no philosophical animosity towards the BSD license. It's just
> > bad luck that UCB was involved in that lawsuit with ATT right around
> > the time that Linux was born. That, and the appeal of the
> > semi-democratic appeal of the Linux development model.
> > If *BSD were to replace Windows or a proprietary Unix in a given
> > organization, I'd be just as happy as if it were Linux.
>
> laf...ok, can't we all get along? The fact that Linux IMHO has an actual
> chance of gaining some serious ground in 2003, is a marvelous thing.
> Where is this going to leave everyone? Hmmm...ok...how open is it TRULY
> going to stay. The corporate intitiys that are taking Linux there,
> RedHat, and probaby the only project that has the ability to compete with
> them on a corporate level, UnitedLinux, will surely become no better than
> MS in their drive for profits so where does that leave me.

Using Debian or Slackware or Gentoo.

> <GRIN> Right
> where I started with "UNIX LIKE" OS's...BSD of any sort. Don't get me
> wrong, I'm pulling for Linux over MS, but I can still remember choosing
> FreeBSD over Linux in 95 because Linux at that time didn't even bother to
> shadow passwords, and besides, anything you can run on Linux, I can run on
> FreeBSD.

Remember, in 1995, *BSD was ~17 years old, whereas Linux was 4.
Is there a Linux-compatibility layer in FreeBSD? I though I'd
heard of such.

And, unless there is that *exact* compatibility layer, you can't
run apps like Oracle[89], DB2, etc. Lastly, what kind of Java is
there for *BSD, and does Wine (and it's derivatives) run?

> > As for women in Berkley, I try not to think about them.
>
> I think of women from everywhere, continuously....

All those strident, left-of-Abby Hoffman Womens Studies "women"?
There's enough good looking women down here.

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