From: Jamis Buck Date: 2004-08-31T02:30:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Web Hosts David Ross wrote: > - again? well take a look how stable the BSD base is > and how long its been around. Don't think time is > relavent? Well then if you don't think so you are not > very intelligent. David, you make some good points, but you also have a very nasty habit of coming across very offensively. Please try to be a little less aggressive in your proselyting--you win very few friends that way. Also, regarding "how long its been around:" some quick googling shows that FreeBSD "had its genesis in early 1993" (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html). Compare that to MS Windows, of which version 1.0 was released in November 1985 (http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm). Yet no one would even DARE to say that Windows was more secure than FreeBSD, even though it is some 8 years older. Age of the operating system is not necessarily a good indication of stability and security. > Want to be a little bitch about it? okay fine to the > smart asses who keep saying "BSD is dying". > http://www.linuxisforbitches.com I can tell this is a sensitive issue for you. That's fine--we've all got our hot buttons. But that's no reason to be offensive. > Wow, lets just be idiotic and install everything in > /usr wow! now its difficult to tell the system and > third party packages apart! wee linux is fun! See above. Someday I may try FreeBSD, but if your attitude is at all indicative of the *BSD community in general, I'm a little frightened to start asking questions... - Jamis -- Jamis Buck jgb3@email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."