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Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More

Posted by timothy on from the more-bsd-please dept.

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features a very interesting interview regarding FreeBSD 5 with the guy responsible for the very good (technically) FreeBSD VM among other things. Matt Dillon talks about everything: FreeBSD 5, Linux, .NET and much more. Additionally, OSNews also includes two mini interviews with the NetBSD and OpenBSD head developers."

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  1. Wow by Chris+Brewer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't know that there's such a following by Hollywood actors of alternative Operating Systems.

    Maybe the last big movie he was in should have been called "There's Something About BSD".

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  2. Bad Logic by recursiv · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just because one actor follows "alternative Operating Systems", you conclude that there is such a following?

    Way to generalize! Have a cookie.

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  3. Re:Interesting view... by chinton · · Score: 5, Funny
    I don't think that this is specific to Linux-hype at all, though. Look at most of the dead (or dying) .com companies. Most of those business plans read as follows:
    1. Provide a service free of charge.
    2. Profit!
  4. Re:Not all labelled Linux is actually Linux by Arandir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since you can run Windows applications on Linux using WINE, would it be proper to say that "Microsoft Word is a Linux application"?

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  5. Re:Excuse me? by Arandir · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even though his pet peeve might not be my pet peeve, it still peeves me off. There are many kinds of linuxisms, even though I mentioned only one.

    Li*nux*ism:
    Pronunciation: 'lee-nuks-izm'
    Function: noun
    Date: 1998
    : a theory holding that the community can know nothing but its own operating system and that its operating system is the only existent operating system. Compare with English "solipsism".

    p.s. You have a Linuxism in your post. Can you find it?

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  6. Re:VM in Linux and FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Translation: I can't defend any of this, since all I know was a bit of technical talk I didn't understand on a mailing list I lurk on.

    So instead of anything substantive, I'll give you my useless anecdotes about my preferred system's performance being more "enjoyable."

    And of course, any circumstance where anything outperforms my preferred system, I'll dismiss it out of hand.

    I used to miss comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, but slashdot's BSD section is an excellent substitute.