From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S9Fne-000276-TM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:05:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C92E0E0943; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D403E09CF for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so6125224wer.40 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:04:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vxQk3TGh9cC+O5BpO/N+Qqwz9ChOMBaDysDjN7Xn8so=; b=OTE/rH2W4AXCXJ9BA/YcDl5qE2kWthbgeC++co52dZtCskPr5aaLuRmOmDRYao0aVT FbLOWYyr3z5thDGwG5/GMR+sDdn+FfbXgABLRLEo5AlLqGgg3c1R/1Zd1F0AvIaErmT4 SAtqGFI2/Gsu9SbXqsYXy32Zvud1mXkrDKhX+oylRHNDHtEVMaBIDx16cZBJaSzygEkg ZYysFgGkKFMxigR3NvDjFKTa1w/tKg7OKgRlAFoBe9H1rH1h96vUHLTTusWnvJic5LMI L0IZrzf60GWJO0DoT+/5iG97NkNw3KbvXrH2ukxmZ9WeQuqk2k9oWMQy/4D364+TV0Zv x1zw== Received: by 10.180.102.100 with SMTP id fn4mr12453128wib.1.1332075851291; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-69-205.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.69.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k7sm26762034wia.5.2012.03.18.06.04.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:03:14 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Message-ID: <20120318150314.272c2c27@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4F65B03A.8020406@gmail.com> References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <1799394.mohVsQjc44@localhost> <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se> <4189454.mV9j5rxc4s@localhost> <4F64F402.5020307@coolmail.se> <4F65B03A.8020406@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f4acdc7a-5be5-4360-a4e5-fef7debf633d X-Archives-Hash: 67b4e3803797e5f6fa280cd60497edf0 On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:51:54 -0500 Dale wrote: > I been thinking about that *BSD stuff lately. Hmmmmm, maybe I need to > do some research on this and give it a try. Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised. For single purpose servers, FreeBSD beats Linux hands down almost every time. I switched all the company servers I could over to FreeBSD (ftp, mail, web, auth - basically everything that isn't running Oracle, Sybase or some other proprietary software with license constraints). Suddenly, all manner of maintenance issues just went away. But I rather suspect that's more because they moved away from SLES than moving away from Linux :-) *BSD on the desktop is an altogether different story though. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com