On 2 Jul 00, at 18:51, Paul wrote:
> I missed something of this thread, it seems. MS did try to make the
> transition from Linux to Windows NT after they took over Hotmail, and they
> put in a LOT of effort and money. The problem that they faced, however,
Well, Hotmail never ran of Linux....IIRC, it used to run FreeBSD, and
it still runs FBSD. And it uses qmail and tries to be pretty secure.
IMHO, BSD clones are somewhat stabler than Linux systems, if only
Bill Joy came out from Sun and helped guide another release of the
Berkeley Unix, we people sure would have lots of advances - technical
and otherwise.
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