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[Richard Smedley]

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 17:53 +0000, Dylan Smith wrote:
> OpenBSD 3.6. I'm probably the only person in the island who has a 
> sparc64 machine as a router

Hello Dylan,

Not got any Sparcs here atm, but one of the kids has
an SGI Indy in his room (lovely monitor) which I must
convert from a useless paperweight to a fully-
functioning member of the Debian clan :-)

> Of course this is the Linux user group - but we should also be 
> embracing other Free operating systems -

Anything is better than the spam on this list :-(

>  the 'cross pollination' from 
> other open source systems is what makes OSS so strong. I've been 
> increasingly impressed by the quality of OpenBSD for instance as an 
> Internet server system and it works excellently alongside Linux 
> systems. What really shines about OpenBSD is 'pf' (the firewall) which 
> is superb, and gets better with each OpenBSD release.

I've missed the last couple of releases, but agree
it's good stuff. OpenBSD also makes a reasonable desktop,
but upgrading was a problem, iirc.

> How many people on the LUG are running on open source only at home or 
> at work, or just Windows-free? I have no Windows systems at home (but I 
> must admit to some proprietary software - I have an Apple PowerBook and 
> I love OS X - which is *BSD at its core of course. Best laptop I've 
> ever used).

I've run entirely Free Software at home for years
now (ever since my Psion3 went kaput). However I
have to obtain an MS OS next week in order to run
the software for my OU courses. I'm actually rather
angry about having to do this, but I'll try and regard
it as a learning opportunity :-/

 - Richard

btw anyone from IOM-LUG coming to any of these?
http://www.affs.org.uk/diary.html

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