Slashdot Mirror


User: Dr+Looney

Dr+Looney's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3

  1. Re:First Unix/Xenix on Microsoft's Ancient History w/ Unix · · Score: 1

    Hi, I run the Unix Archive at www.tuhs.org. Would you care to let us read the tape and add it to the collection? It certainly is a historical release of Unix. Warren wkt@tuhs.org

  2. Industrial Action on Ask Slashdot: Does your Employer have an OSS Policy? · · Score: 1

    If employees can't utilize any OSS software, then
    find any use of OSS software by the organisation
    (either internally or externally) and disable it:
    Bind, sendmail, apache, squid etc.

    Bean counter: why did my email bounce?
    IT person: your mail would have been accepted
    by an OSS product, which we are not allowed
    to utilize.

    Bean counter: why can't I surf the web anymore?
    IT person: all of your hostname -> IP lookups
    were being served by an OSS product, which we
    are not allosed to utilize. Sorry.

    Wait 7 days. Policy will change.

  3. Re:Core question remains unanswered on A Tale of Two Systems, Linux, xBSD · · Score: 2

    The reason why BSD and Linux won't merge (nor the various different Linux distributions, nor the main flavours of BSD) is that people like to do things differently.

    It is sad that Linux if often portrayed as a ``wannabe'' Unix. It would be great if we could all stop bickering about FreeBSD vs. Linux, FreeBSD vs. NetBSD etc. and just get on with writing good code and making all the systems better.

    From a very happy FreeBSD user, who also teaches SysAdmin with both FreeBSD and RedHat Linux.