On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:36:21AM +0000, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
Where I work right now, we have bsd and debian on servers.
All user computers run debian or mandrake right now (and
we're going to move those to debian). We dont let them choose.
It is mandatory. We use bsd and some debian on servers, and
they will use free software on computers.
The main reason is not freedom or fighting proprietary
software. It is (1) getting work done and (2) when we got
unix-alike everywhere it makes our job as system admins
and network admins easier.
I curious (and not wanting to start a new flame war) about the decision
tree to put debain on the workstations instead of BSD everywhere. What
factors were involved? Where there logistical issues that debian sovled
better in this case than BSD? Is it OpenBSD or another?
Doug.
Oh, please. A lot of us here are quite agnostic. Personally i like OS's.
I run the following. OpenBSD for router, FreeBSD for webserver, Ubuntu
linux for desktop at home. Plan9 for desktop and VNC at work, Linux on
one box, FreeBSD on most of my servers Centos where the job has told me
to install it. Back to home i run inferno for os supporting editor Acme
Sac on occassion and Windows under Qemu when i must at work. My wife may
give me her WinXP license when she upgrades to Vista and i will use that
under Qemu just for the perverse thrill of running windows in an emu under
linux. I also like what the folks are doing with DragonFlyBSD, though i
do not run it any more now that my test boxes have all died. Oh, and the
laptop runs Plan9 and ubuntu.
Now, i will say thank you to all the coders that are here listening that
make my software experience possible ;-)
--- Marina Brown
