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> dave wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 23:34:02 Christopher Sawtell
> > wrote:
> >> 2008/11/4 Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >>>> Funnily enough, the one time support would have been
> welcome (this >>>>
> >>> issue
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> took months to resolve) both Oracle NZ and RedHat
> were absolutely >>>> useless. Wandering through source
> code eventually highlighted the >>>>
> >>> issue
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> which was resolved quite effectively once the cause
> was found. >>>>
> >>> Yes,
> >>> I think that is my experience too.
> >>> If you are a reasonably knowledgeable sysadmin or
> whatever, any support >>> you want is going
> >>> to be for a relatively obscure problem which is
> unlikely to be >>> something a phone-support person is
> able to deal with. >>>
> >> You might also care to consider one of the *BSDs.
> >>
> >> FreeBSD is _very_ stable for server use.
> >>
> >
> > if so then OpenBSD would be even better wouldn't (I mean
> > it's the server version so to speak) FreeBSD is the
> > desktop version so to speak i mean. eg netbsd = network
> server, OpenBSD = web server, FreeBSD = desktop etc. >
> > I stand to be corrected on this tho.
> >
> > dave.
> >
> Similar code - different foci.
>
> PcBSD is the desktop version. Nice but I still prefer
thought this was another fork of FreeBSD by another group
who where trying to remove some of the complexity (read like
ubuntu or Linsipre did/do) of the installation/usage.
again i stand to be corrected.
> Linux. FreeBSD is the server version. I run this both at
> work and home for my servers.
> OpenBSD is the paranoically secure version. Never needed
> this.
>
> hth
> Brett.
