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Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, or wait for the June release of Mac OS Tiger for Unix Geeks.

Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, or wait for the June release of Mac OS Tiger for Unix Geeks.

SitePoint is publishing "Firefox Secrets" this May which will include a CDROM bundled with Firefox, Thunderbird and dozens of extensions and themes which are mentioned in the book... More details at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0975240242/

Didn't they already find out that birds could talk?. This language stuff is already for the snakes...err, I mean birds.

I just finished reading Revolution in the Valley. One of my favorite quotes from the book is when Jobs confronts Bill about copying the Mac, and Bill says, "No, Steve, I think its more like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and you broke in to steal the TV set, and you found out I'd been there first, and you said. "Hey that's no fair! I wanted to steal the TV set!"

You can use the MacMetrics Metal theme I wrote to get an approximation of how things will be laid out under the MacL&F

Not long ago, there was a Slashdot review of a certain book, which included a chapter on CUPS that can be downloaded for free (can't beat that price!). It seems to demystify the entire process of administering CUPS.

Five cents, please...(that's about all my opinion is worth these days)

Not long ago, there was a Slashdot review of a certain book, which included a chapter on CUPS that can be downloaded for free (can't beat that price!). It seems to demystify the entire process of administering CUPS.

Five cents, please...(that's about all my opinion is worth these days)

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

users as innovators -- isn't this what
inspired stallman to invent open source?
he wanted to tweak a laser printer.

j

Wikipedia is great & the webapp that it runs on is fantastic. I would like to donate money to the developers (see my URL). I know that I can support Wikimedia Foundation, but was wondering if anyone knew how much of my donation would actually go to development.

Open Sources was a fantastic book, which is available for free from O'Reilly. I enjoyed it & bought a copy even after I read it on my PDA. I eagerly anticipate the second. Does anyone know when it will come out and if it will also be available for free?

While MediaWiki (and other projects) are a snap to setup, The Wiki Way offers an interesting perspective & some good advice.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Of course, even at 900 lpi, that's still far higher than the ~150 dpi you'll find on even the highest density LCD screens (such as in high-end laptops); ~75 dpi is more common for LCDs. Neither LCD type makes for comforable long term reading, which is why I have several dead tree versions of O'Reilly books, despite having several Multi-Book CDs from them and unlimited access to the Safari Library through work.

Of course, even at 900 lpi, that's still far higher than the ~150 dpi you'll find on even the highest density LCD screens (such as in high-end laptops); ~75 dpi is more common for LCDs. Neither LCD type makes for comforable long term reading, which is why I have several dead tree versions of O'Reilly books, despite having several Multi-Book CDs from them and unlimited access to the Safari Library through work.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'. -- Requiem for the FUD

I'd have just wanted access to my Safari Bookstore account. ;-)

There is also this O'Reilly book called Mind Hacks http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mindhks/

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

--
Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

O'reilly offers a few of their books under an open doc license: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

Sounds interesting. An "open-source" version of this would be a great article for Make magazine, alongside its one on Kite Aerial Photography.

Sounds interesting. An "open-source" version of this would be a great article for Make magazine, alongside its one on Kite Aerial Photography.

While in California, Raymond also managed to squeeze in a visit to VA Research, a Santa Clara-based company selling workstations with the GNU/Linux operating system preinstalled. Convened by Raymond, the meeting was small. The invite list included VA founder Larry Augustin, a few VA employees, and Christine Peterson [my emphasis], president of the Foresight Institute, a Silicon Valley think tank specializing in nanotechnology.

"The meeting's agenda boiled down to one item: how to take advantage of Netscape's decision so that other companies might follow suit?" Raymond doesn't recall the conversation that took place, but he does remember the first complaint addressed. Despite the best efforts of Stallman and other hackers to remind people that the word "free" in free software stood for freedom and not price, the message still wasn't getting through. Most business executives, upon hearing the term for the first time, interpreted the word as synonymous with "zero cost," tuning out any follow up messages in short order. Until hackers found a way to get past this cognitive dissonance, the free software movement faced an uphill climb, even after Netscape.

Peterson, whose organization had taken an active interest in advancing the free software cause, offered an alternative: open source. [my emphasis]

Looking back, Peterson says she came up with the open source term while discussing Netscape's decision with a friend in the public relations industry. She doesn't remember where she came upon the term or if she borrowed it from another field, but she does remember her friend disliking the term.

Here are the other Hibernate books I've read (or skimmed):

Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook
Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide (Addison Wesley))
Java Open Source Programming: with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate

But they all fall short of Hibernate in Action imho.

Make costs $35 a year. Use the $65 left to build a couple of projects.

At the Milwaukee No Fluff Just Stuff conference, I was invovled in a lunchtime conversation with Justin and [Pragmatic] Dave Thomas about this subject, just days after Justin completed the Ruby code.

The concensus at that point: it probably wasn't a difference in *execution* speed, but smarter data retreval strategies used by Rails persistance layer. While Hibernate has excellent support for lazy loading, both developers thought that Rails was being *lazier*.

Justin's new numbers also point to faster caching in RoR's persistance layer: while both applications performed about equally without pre-cached data, RoR performed 20x better than the Java stack with cached data [both versions using similar caching strategies].

As for those questioning Justin's java skills: he's one of the best programmer's I've had the privilege to know, one of the best speaker's I've listend to, and is freaking hilarious to boot. He's the co-author of O'Reily's Better, Faster, Lighter Java, and he regularly speaks on advanced Hibernate, Spring, and a bunch of other Java topics.

He also points out a *significant* decrease in Lines of Code[Java:3293 RoR:1164] and Lines of Configuration [Java:1161 RoR:113]. While not an accurate gauge of effort, it is another point in Ruby's favor.

Last point for Ruby: Every single *top notch* Java programmer I know is at least playing with Ruby and RoR, with a large percentage [>50%] transitioning to Ruby as a first choice for new project work.

Don't call it a toy until you've played with it. There's some pretty convincing evidence that Ruby/RoR can beat Java for development effort, and now we're seeing it can beat it for performance, too.

How about these people?

ILM, Rackspace, United Space Alliance to name a few.

How about these people?

ILM, Rackspace, United Space Alliance to name a few.

Steve, care to produce some specifics about where Spam Kings departs from the historical record? The book is carefully documented/footnoted and is based entirely on fact (court documents, spam samples, chat logs, newsgroup postings, website archives, interviews, etc.). If you really care about getting this bit of Internet history right, you'll submit something to O'Reilly's errata page. Otherwise, your posting just sounds like sour grapes.

Note that the author of Spam Kings runs a blog too.

I was going to make some snide remark of why another spam blog needs to be created when the author of the book this guy is telling us about already has a blog up and running... but I run a spam blog too (anti-spam that is) - so I guess I'd be a bit of a hypocrite there :)

That was me with the list of files to look through for setting up Firefox.

Also, I am going to have to get that book, sounds like the information in there would keep me busy for quite a while. I know the Knoppix Hacks book did!

Author did a nice job on this review. I will probably pick this book up. Here's a link to O'Reilly's official site for the book. NerdBooks.com has is carrying at 50% off.

Sorry for the slightly offtopic comment, but i have to post this.
O'reilly have a book called Don't click on the blue E! that's a kind of migration guide from IE to Firefox for disenchanted Internet Explorer users.

I just love the title of it. Frankly, how many Firefox users trying to get thir sister/mother/grandma to use Firefox (mostly because they're sick of being called to remove spywares/viruses induced by IE) have actually use that phrase?

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

If you really think you have a better idea, figure out the details, write up an outline and propose it to Make yourself. Make is written almost entirely by freelancers IIRC.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
W hat's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

And you call yourself a nerd? Two-minute penalty.

...use 'Mastering Regular Expressions . It's a good book on the topic as well.

I'm not sure I understand what your quibble is - do you dislike the fact that he uses non-capturing groups, or the fact that he disposes of them at certain points?

Another issue is a slight error in searching for letters. In a number of expressions, Nathan uses [A-z] to capture all letters. Unfortunately, the special characters [, \, ], ^, _, and ` occur between upper-case Z and lower-case a, making it match too much. Either [[:alpha:]] or [A-Za-z] should have been used.

This seems like a relatively novice mistake, and I'm surprised it would show up in a book on regular expressions.

Despite these quibbles, Regular Expression Recipes does provide a useful compendium of solutions for common problems developers face. Presenting the information in a cookbook fashion, along with ensuring that those using something other than Perl don't have to sweat translating the expressions to their target language, makes this a handy book to have. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

It's nice that he covers five environments for regular expressions. I'm sure everyone has heard of Mastering Regular Expressions, published by O'Reilly. The Perl Cookbook also does a good job at solving common problems with Regular expressions.

This is just my opinion, but I think what the world needs is a book on Regular Expression Design Patterns.

I'm not sure I understand what your quibble is - do you dislike the fact that he uses non-capturing groups, or the fact that he disposes of them at certain points?

Another issue is a slight error in searching for letters. In a number of expressions, Nathan uses [A-z] to capture all letters. Unfortunately, the special characters [, \, ], ^, _, and ` occur between upper-case Z and lower-case a, making it match too much. Either [[:alpha:]] or [A-Za-z] should have been used.

This seems like a relatively novice mistake, and I'm surprised it would show up in a book on regular expressions.

Despite these quibbles, Regular Expression Recipes does provide a useful compendium of solutions for common problems developers face. Presenting the information in a cookbook fashion, along with ensuring that those using something other than Perl don't have to sweat translating the expressions to their target language, makes this a handy book to have. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

It's nice that he covers five environments for regular expressions. I'm sure everyone has heard of Mastering Regular Expressions, published by O'Reilly. The Perl Cookbook also does a good job at solving common problems with Regular expressions.

This is just my opinion, but I think what the world needs is a book on Regular Expression Design Patterns.

To help fill in the basic gaps, go take a look at Building Wireless Community Networks, Wireless Hacks, as well as the larger city and national groups Seattle Wireless and NYC Wireless. Go to NYC Wireless for the tools and the user groups, go to Seattle Wireless to see if you want to add affiliate services.

Hills or a maze of skysrapers...each have line of sight problems. There are plenty of answers out there and it doesn't take high end equipment or experts to pull this off...though it does take time, tweaking, and a reasonable amount of planning.

To help fill in the basic gaps, go take a look at Building Wireless Community Networks, Wireless Hacks, as well as the larger city and national groups Seattle Wireless and NYC Wireless. Go to NYC Wireless for the tools and the user groups, go to Seattle Wireless to see if you want to add affiliate services.

Hills or a maze of skysrapers...each have line of sight problems. There are plenty of answers out there and it doesn't take high end equipment or experts to pull this off...though it does take time, tweaking, and a reasonable amount of planning.

They do not directly mention Trusted Computing, but it looks like every expert they cite is in fact a Trusted Computing advocate. Hell, David Spafford was the author of the fairly famous WHY_TCPA and TCPA_REBUTTAL papers. I have to do some more Googling, but I think pretty much the entire committee has Trusted Computing ties.

You might want to check your DNS entries as apparently you're using a different "google" than I am. For starters '"David Spafford" TCPA' returns 0 hits of Google. Secondly, it's Eugene Spafford that took part in, and is cited in the report. Googling for Eugene Spafford and TCPA gives a few hits, but nothing about him writing any papers on TCPA. Confused, I went to his homepage and looked up his list of publications. Lo and behold, not a single mention of TCPA in any of his numerous books, journal articles or conference papers. He did write "Practical UNIX security" available from O'Reilly.

I'm sure if you continue to completely make stuff up you can find all manner of other connections to trusted computing. On the other hand if you care to join the rest of us in reality you might find that the report really has nothing to do with TCPA at all.

Jedidiah.

Have you read the great debate? I don't think Linus would agree that the decision to use a monolithic kernel was driven by scarcity of development resources and time to market type thinking.

Not AFAIK, but apache is really easy to pick up. I learned enough to deploy Apache from the o'reilley book in about 4 or 5 working days - including trickier stuff like virtual hosting, getting mod_perl working, et al.

More generally, I guess all this cert stuff is mainly to do with motivation. Sometimes it helps you to focus if you've got some sort of framework to fit your learning into. Personally, I don't find I need that framework for techie learning, but I find it extremely useful when pursuing more academic studies. YMMV ;-)

Don't click on the blue e. Nuff sed.

Also, The Samba/LDAP How-To using Samba v. 3 by David Trask may be helpful to you as well.

Finally, while I have not reviewed this one it sounds like what you are searching for: LDAP System Administration from O'Reilly.

Happy authenticating!

The most common acronym attributed to it is "Practical Reporting And Extraction Language."

(You'll note that actually spells PEARL, a hint of its early name.)

Who needs Tom C., I'll just flame myself.

Actually it spells PRAEL. Duh, I got the wording twisted, it's obviously Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.

Also, I am wrong about the use of PERL on O'Reilly books. I am surprised to see the PERL in a Nutshell title from O'Reilly.

And as a twist on the theme, the pink camel book actually is called "Programming perl," with "perl" in all lowercase.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

--
Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

No disagreement about the value of MFC, but I would say that X Toolkit is comparable rather than better...

He thinks that people are advocating linux because of hte legend of linus as a robin-hood like figure against the evil forces of big corporations, while saying that its not really true, linux was developed using alot of ideas from unix, with the empethsis in the article being that unix-derivied OSes are more suporior then linux (and therefor windows)

His argument is that while everything beats windows, linux in particular is only known above other unices because it has the quasi-religious loyality.....i guess people can't argue again that fully, if microsoft decided to revive xenix and made it all open source and changed everything we know about them, would anyone trust them as leaders instead of linus?

Its ashame he didn't read http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/ap pa.html before, when linux started it was really meant to fill a void none of the other unix-like OSs were, and downplaying linux as offering no technical advantages over BSD and solarix is pretty insulting and biased