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A BSD For Your PHB

Posted by michael on from the XYZPDQ dept.

Kelly McNeill writes "The reaction one gets when attempting to get a manager in a corporate environment to consider an alternate operating system can sometimes be likened to a typical dilbert comic strip. Joseph Mallett contributed the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which suggests that if you present the case properly, your pointy haired boss will make the right decision when choosing a Unix operating system to run the business."

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  1. Troll & Flamebait - Mod down by zyche · · Score: 0, Troll

    What the hell are you talking about?

  2. This is great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Use BSD instead of Linux for no apparent reason. Use OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD because your stupid boss doesn't want something "free". Thanks -- what a helpful article!

  3. Re:OpenBSD Desktop? Icky Poo. by Twylite · · Score: 1, Troll

    *thumbs up* I haven't played with OpenBSD in about a year, but back then I found it unfriendly to install and encountered some hardware incompatibilities. I've always found FreeBSD to be thoroughly stable and reliable as a server OS.

    As a firewall may I recommend MonoWall. It is a single CD (around 6Mb) BSD-based firewall/NAT solution with web-based administration, and is absolutely brilliant.

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    i-name =twylite [http://public.xdi.org/=twylite], see idcommons.net