Hi Siju,
It was very informative of you telling all this to us. Actually, i am not
that deeply involved in this. But now i was able to understand lots of things
which you said. Will definitely be doing more research on these topics soon.
Its really good to know that you have experience on so many platforms.
Warm Regards,
S.Sreekanth
--- On Sat, 25/9/10, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Siju George <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Libre
> To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, 25 September, 2010, 12:59 PM
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM,
> sreekanth sasikanth
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:>
> > I believe you are a BSD user Siju? :)
> >
>
> Not a BSD only BSD user :-)
> I use what is best for a purpose thats it!
>
> At home I switch between OpenBSD and Arch Linux.
> OpenBSD is quite cool because I can easily create the SSH
> VPN from
> home to the OpenBSD firewall at office.
>
> Archlinux satisfies my firefox streaming flash needs :-)
> I came to know of archlinux from the Linux4u magazine which
> i purchase
> once in a while. I like it because of the rolling release
> mainly.
>
> At offfice I use a lot of things. Need to take care of 4
> companies
> with a wide vareity of needs so we use.
>
> Windows XP/2003/2008 and corresponding software MS
> software
>
> Mac OS X - no other way to test things in safari decently
> for developers :-).
> In the begining days eMac was one of the ApacheMySQLPHP
> servers
>
> OpenBSD for firewalls always. Also it did run several other
> regular
> stuff and was backup server for a long time.
> DragonFlyBSD for backup server needs now now
> FreeBSD when a co-admin is just switching over from Linux
> to BSD ;-)
> Debian for Linux Servers.
> These days I use Ubuntu too because some Cloud/Grid hosting
> guys don't
> provide a squeeze image but only lenny. lenny might have
> updates for
> just one more year after squeeze is released so in scuh
> cases I choose
> Ubuntu 10 LTS so i can easliy upfdate for the next 5 years
> ;-)
>
> Generally when i work in a company the transition goes
> from
>
> MS Windows/Redhat > Debian > BSD
>
> But BSD is not a solution for everything. Neither is
> Linux.
> Then we need to consider others who co-administer with us
> so in such
> cases we use Linux and then when hadcore .net guys come we
> use Bill's
> heavy Billed stuff :-)
>
> Even on Windows XP I try to use free software as far as
> possible.
> Like introduce users to
> filezilla/eclipase/firefox/thunderbird and
> stuff to users.
>
> So working in a multi-platform environment in differrent
> companies
> with differrent requirements I am forced to make a lot
> choices which i
> would not have made if all things were under my control.
>
> But I do love BSD/Linux more than MS Windows I have to adit
> that :-)
> And I love Free as in no cash to be paid more than free as
> in you can
> have the source code but you need to pay if you wnt to use
> it :-) May
> be typical of mallus ;-)
>
>
> "Well, once again thank you for Updating me on this. I
> dream of a day
> when Indian Institutes will also make such a processor for
> our
> country...with completely Free-Hardware :).. Which i am
> unsure whether
> will happen in our life time :D..he he he"
>
> I think it will happen in our life time :-)
>
> cheers
>
> --Siju
>
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