[PLUG] PLUG and BSD?

[drew wymore]

You won't offend any windows users on this list. In fact I think you'd be
hard pressed to _find_ many day to day windows users here heh. There is a
BSD group as well but they're a small bunch and not nearly as well organized
as the linux folken.

Drew-

On 10/20/06, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I get the impression from looking over the web
> site that PLUG also has members up on or
> interested in the BSD troika, and other *nix
> flavors as well?
>
> That would be great in my book, since we use both
> Penguins and Devils around here.
>
> The small PHP/MySQL shop we will be moving to
> Portland in a couple of weeks uses Debian Sarge
> running Fluxbox WM for workstations, but I've been
> using FreeBSD on servers for years and have
> carried that on through, even though I have no
> complaints whatsoever about Linux servers.
>
> Just figured I could keep up on BSD too, and we're
> currently migrating our two 1U MBX jobbies to
> FreeBSD 6.1.
>
> Workstation-wise, we also keep a Windows machine
> on the network, mostly for checking PHP apps out
> on IE, but I've not installed Samba or anything
> that allows it to mount the servers, just thinking
> if it's all loaded up with viruses maybe that will
> slow them down a bit from spreading around.
>
> To paraphrase Bart Simpson, "Why would anyone want
> to touch a Windows box? Everybody knows that's
> where cooties come from!"
>
> (Cite the original Bart quote and I'll buy you a
> beer when I get to Portland.)
>
> PS. Just in case I've already annoyed some Windows
> users, no harm meant. I know it has its place. I
> was just joshing.
> --
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 61 W Broadway
> Butte, Montana 59701
> 406-782-2240
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