Re: [TCLUG:8523] Cable Vs DSL

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >Basically, anyone who would set fire to a NeXT Cube is not balanced
> >psychologically and should be ignored or sedated. He's also a co-author
> >of *The Unix-Haters' Handbook* -- and a BSD developer. Go figure.
>
>         *The Unix-Haters' Handbook*  is actually a UNIX manual for
> UNIX-phobes. I've looked at it once, and it didn't seem too bad.

You might be thinking of *Unix for the Impatient*, which is a great book.
*Unix-Haters' Handbook* is a protracted rant about why Unix people are
'weenies' and why USENET is silly and why everyone should be using ITS or
MULTICS now. *Haters'* is in no way a manual -- there's no useful
information in it. :P

>         lets face it, when it comes to BSD v. Linux; the choice is fairly
> academic, above a certain level. Linux is much more 'mainstream', with all
> the advantages (and disadvantages) that entails; but the BSDs have their own
> good points.

I agree entirely.

>         I think there's a lot of people on this list who use both, but just
> don't mention it. :)

Right, like me.

>         I'll probably end up running Linux on that box; just because I'm a
> complete newbie to firewalls, and the Linux doco seems better (not to
> mention, I have to make it vaguely usable by whoever might come after me in
> this job; and it'll be easier for them if they only have to worry about the
> quirks of one OS). But given a bit more of my time, i'm sure OpenBSD would
> make a better firewall.

Yes, I'm going to set up OpenBSD on a server in a bit.


-- Chris

  Christopher Reid Palmer : www.innerfireworks.com