Why not picoBSD? http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ We had tremendous success while setting up firewalls in india with this. It's much easier to get a floppy through customs than an actual Cisco box (and you don't have to bribe anyone;-) ) We just mailed them the floppy: pre-configured with ipfw and squid and some instructions on how to boot from it, where to plug what net cable and how to create the squid cache on the HD.
staroffice (sun.com) or openoffice(openoffice.org). I *think* that openOffice is just an open source version of sun's product.
I've been using staroffice for a while now under FreeBSD (has been ported to pretty much every platform). it's so easy, even my wife can use it.
There is also a new version of staroffice out, haven't tried it yet.
Right on!... We went through the same operation at a previous employer. We were running RedHat but for some reason the netkit rpm changed the syntax for ping (WTF?). I got pissed because this broke BigBrother (monitoring software http://bb4.com) Around this same time we had to do 2 kernel patches in one week on all of our RedHat servers (I forget the details but they were both security related). At one point three of the four sysadmins said "FUCK IT... this crap would never happen with BSD". We upgraded and all was, frankly, great from then on.
So what? MS appropriated some public domain source code and used it in their OS. Isn't the BSD license great.... you could do it too! Sure, go ahead... D/L BSD and build your own firewall, resell it and make millions. don't you wish you could do that with the GPL?
the REAL source of my hair-trigger is all the *BSD is dying posts... is there a BOT or something posting that crap?... it's like the same message posted over and over again and it's really annoying.
I don't hate linux, I just like FreeBSD better. At least we have a choice, right?
WRONG!... FreeBSD was my first unix variant. ver 2.2.6 to be exact. I'm not l337... trust me on that one... just a part-time perl/web monkey.
I've used Linux and liked it but it simply was not as stable as FreeBSD as a server OS. We rolled redhat out a former employer (www.webhelp.com - feel free to DOS them). But for one reason or another every server eventually got reinstalled with FreeBSD.
We just got sick of bi-weekly kernel updates and bug fixes. Plus the ports collection kicks arse... much easier than rooting in rpmfind.net for dependancies!
How is XP anything like freebsd 4.5? Are you so blinded by the "superiority" of linux that you see all non-linux operating systems as the same "enemy"? Is that the joke... you?
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Why not picoBSD? http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ We had tremendous success while setting up firewalls in india with this. It's much easier to get a floppy through customs than an actual Cisco box (and you don't have to bribe anyone ;-) )
We just mailed them the floppy: pre-configured with ipfw and squid and some instructions on how to boot from it, where to plug what net cable and how to create the squid cache on the HD.
staroffice (sun.com) or openoffice(openoffice.org). I *think* that openOffice is just an open source version of sun's product.
I've been using staroffice for a while now under FreeBSD (has been ported to pretty much every platform). it's so easy, even my wife can use it.
There is also a new version of staroffice out, haven't tried it yet.
Right on!... We went through the same operation at a previous employer. We were running RedHat but for some reason the netkit rpm changed the syntax for ping (WTF?). I got pissed because this broke BigBrother (monitoring software http://bb4.com) Around this same time we had to do 2 kernel patches in one week on all of our RedHat servers (I forget the details but they were both security related). At one point three of the four sysadmins said "FUCK IT... this crap would never happen with BSD". We upgraded and all was, frankly, great from then on.
what the hell are you talking about? freebsd is still as open as it ever was. Jobs just "borrowed" it (along with jordan hubbard) for OSX.
So what? MS appropriated some public domain source code and used it in their OS. Isn't the BSD license great.... you could do it too! Sure, go ahead... D/L BSD and build your own firewall, resell it and make millions. don't you wish you could do that with the GPL?
$me != "having a cow"
I just don't appreciate my favorite OS being compared to or even mentioned in the same breath as XP.
yadda yadda yadda. wipe the foam from your mouth
the REAL source of my hair-trigger is all the *BSD is dying posts... is there a BOT or something posting that crap?... it's like the same message posted over and over again and it's really annoying.
I don't hate linux, I just like FreeBSD better. At least we have a choice, right?
WRONG!... FreeBSD was my first unix variant. ver 2.2.6 to be exact. I'm not l337... trust me on that one... just a part-time perl/web monkey.
I've used Linux and liked it but it simply was not as stable as FreeBSD as a server OS. We rolled redhat out a former employer (www.webhelp.com - feel free to DOS them). But for one reason or another every server eventually got reinstalled with FreeBSD.
We just got sick of bi-weekly kernel updates and bug fixes. Plus the ports collection kicks arse... much easier than rooting in rpmfind.net for dependancies!
How is XP anything like freebsd 4.5? Are you so blinded by the "superiority" of linux that you see all non-linux operating systems as the same "enemy"? Is that the joke... you?
Thanks for the facts Jordan!
and for those of us in the TC metro.... visi.com is hands down the best alternative!!!! CHeck them out! Mike Horwath (visi's sysadmin) is Jesus.
It's so liddle!