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USENIX Reports

Posted by michael on from the apropos-BSD dept.

bruce writes: "O'Reilly has just put up a page with conference reports from USENIX. The BSD BoF session sounds like it was pretty interesting, lots of info there." Yes, "*BSD is Dying" posts are up 75%, thank you very much.

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  1. Re:scariest thing by DGolden · · Score: 4

    It's already screwed up - C# itself might be "standardised", but without the full implementation of the .NET APIs it won't be very useful. And the forthcoming BSD-platform release will not include any client-side GUI support - MS is keeeping that bound to GDI on the windows platform, initially (they may be using Corel's wine-expertise to later bring client-side to BSD and thereby mac os x).

    Indeed, it may be speculated that MS _need_ the server-side .NET on BSD, because Win2000 sure isn't up to the amount of traffic MS's own .NET servers will be able to take :-) - chances are, they'll use BSD servers identifying themselves as win2000 (they've done it before...)

    So MS's plan seems to be Windows on the client, BSD on the server for real reliability, and Win2000 on the server for the real suckers...

    See the discussions on this article for more details.

    Remember, microsoft-man speak with forked tongue...

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  2. hard-core technical issues by QuantumG · · Score: 4

    To everyone behind censoring proxies: sux to be you.

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  3. Re:anti-bsd posts up 75% on slashdot!!!!! by szcx · · Score: 5
    This is something I've been pondering for a while. As a group, the *BSD folk seem to be happy to coexist with other systems while the majority of (vocal) Linux supporters are hell-bent on Linux World Domination and if you're not 100% on board the Destroy Microsoft bandwagon, then you are the enemy. The phrase "use the best tool for the job" in some peoples minds has been interpreted as "use the best tool for the job... so long as it's Linux".

    There are zealots everywhere -- hell, I know people who go absolutely rabid if you get coffee from Starbucks instead of Seattles Best -- but sometimes it just seems the Linux users could learn a thing or two about tolerance from their *BSD cousins.