[olug] linux defection

[Adam Lassek]

I've always been mildy curious about the *BSd family, I think it would
be a great idea to get to know them a little better. I'd rather stick
with Linux for front-end stuff, but I've always wanted to experiment
with FreeBSd or OpenBSD for a server.

puzzled wrote:
> 
>        Are Chris and I the only ones who have defected to BSD derivatives?
> 
>       I am still running linux for desktop but for a big guns ISP its just
> not getting the job done - I need things like cflow and RATools to work on
> our BGP setup and they just won't run under linux no matter how much
> coaxing I do. We've found the FreeBSD/OpenBSD ipv6 support to be
> *excellent* - everything on FBSD 4.0 seems to already support ipv6 ... the
> only thing on RedHat that is easy for ipv6 is getting support in kernel ...
> its a bug hunt after that to get the packages you need.
> 
>      I don't think there is enough activity in Omaha to justify a separate
> *BSD users group ... I'd like to propose that OLUG expand its charter to
> cover any *nix ... I know we already have a Solaris contingent so there is
> a precedent.
> 
>     So, lets see the rest of you *BSD users come out of the closet :-)
> 
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