Unix

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Tue May 7 06:27:38 2002

 On Tues, 7 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
>
> > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
>
> I used HPUX in the interim, and, of course a half-dozen dialects of Unix at
> the POP. The place my confidence in the thing falls apart is in the
> documentation. There is a Linux Documentation Project that seems to lag about
> 5 generations behind the "current" versions (not the betas).
>

Absolutely! Man pages for the GNU stuff sucks. The updates aren't
documented completely in the man pages and they want to replace nice
simple man pages with texinfo.

Which is why I'm running FreeBSD instead. The man pages are accurate
and the FreeBSD handbook is great. The fact is Linux has more eye-candy
and such, but if you're looking for commercial-Unix-like documentation
and stability the BSD varients are a lot more professional feeling.

And I'm a Linux sysadmin almost full time at work... at home it's
FreeBSD i4got.pechter.dyndns.org 4.6-PRERELEASE.

I've got the system auto-upgrading from source code weekly fixing any bugs
without any intervention from me. The security is pretty good.

For example someone in Australia may have tried to rattle the door yesterday,
or was a victim of the dynamic ip address change fun...:

May 6 07:49:31 i4got inetd[7541]: refused connection from janush.lnk.telstra.net, service ftpd (tcp)
May 6 07:49:31 i4got inetd[7541]: refused connection from janush.lnk.telstra.net, service ftpd (tcp)

And FreeBSD runs almost all the Linux i386 stuff unmodified and they're
adding SVR4 and Solarisx86 as well.

Bill
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 06:27:38 BST