[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Thu Sep 16 11:03:08 CDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:47:33AM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " I didn't run NetBSD for some years after it was first released.
> " 
> " My first thought was "home!"

I have OpenBSD (related to NetBSD) to be a very "clean" OS in so many ways.

> " It was like going back to the first UNIX systems I had accounts on.
> 
> for me solaris 2.4 was like home; my first unix was sVr0.  i cut my
> admin teeth on r2 and r3.
> 
> " I like how it still have a simple base install that is a full UNIX
> " system, but still very simple like the old days.
> 
> true, that is a point against solaris.

Another point against solaris: they are dumping plain text files in
some of their configuration programs, and going with XML.

--Patrick



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