7 Feb
2018
7 Feb
'18
7:14 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Derek Fawcus wrote:
At the time a colleague and I had been considering
coughing up for the
BSDi distribution, but found Linux so played with it instead.
It would've been early Linux for me, but some personal issues stopped me
from actually doing it (all I had to do was to collect the box -- a 386 --
that someone else had done for me) otherwise I would've learned to loathe
Penguin/OS that much earlier :-)
As it was, $BOSS paid for my BSDi source licence, and when WinDriver
bought them out and suppressed it I went to FreeBSD instead (after a brief
tangle with some pompous OpenBSD jerks).
FreeBSD is still my main server (an ancient P4 at the moment, with a
massive 512MB of memory; it used to be a Celery w/ 128MB) with MacBook and
Debian clients. And I really must repair the keyboard on the EeePC 701
(running EeeBuntu) some day...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."