[geeks] are *BSD (and Linux) people "unhelpful"?

[Kurt Huhn]

> > irix over solaris? wow. talk about your insecure recommendatons ;)
> 
> Maybe I assume everyone will know how to handle default unpassworded
> accounts. Other than the overhyped, way late cert advisory on lp I can't

For workstations, Irix is a *wonderful* OS, it gets even better if you
can get the SGI freeware stuff on there.  Very geared toward the way I
think anyhow. XFS is a very nice FS, and the virtual volumes stuff is
very nice in the abscence of hardwar RAID.

> > i can see the fbsd over linux part but a lot of employers refuse to work
> > with an unsupported o/s on unguaranteed equipment.
> 
> What is support? Ever read the RedHat contract? They garantee you a
> login: prompt and not much else. Your kind of in that boat with anything
> unless you have a real, real expensive, contract.
> 

support?  we don't need no steenking support!  That's why you hire
sysadmins...

-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com