Re: [cobalt-developers] OS-discussion

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"E.B. Dreger" wrote:

> Those of us who provide proper colo shield our customers from one
> another by using VLANs terminated on such a router/firewall.
> Will be bringing up another couple in the next week if certain
> software packages stabilize.

Okay Eddy, obviously I've got a lot to learn.  I'd love to keep picking
your brains on this; for example, any ideas where to get a good
reference book, or what terms to type in when I search the web?

Is it time to take this conversation offlist, or are other readers
interested in it as well?

> Remember, too, that JunOS is based on FreeBSD.

So you're saying Juniper has developed a commercial product based on my
needs <wry grin.?

> I was raised on Linux.  I think it has its place, but it's not my
> favorite.  There's more to life than Linux.

I'm a tool user as well, but I'm constrained by current knowledge, if I
don't know where to search to learn.  Learning is a pain at my advanced
age <smile>.

I've just decided to leave BSDi OS behind after about six years.  Got
two boxes never installed, ready to trash 'em if no one on the BSDi
mailing list writes me and wants 'em.  If you want to see a company
destroy an operating system, see what WindRiver did when they bought
BSDi.  Compared to them, Sun Cobalt are amateurs.

> > on it.  As to the corporate culture?  That remains to be seen
> > <smile>.
> 
> Or perhaps <frown>, as the case may be. ;-)

Aha, we've just discovered the perfect use for my "<wry grin>".

> > You can cut and paste to get "Jörg"; that's what I do
> 
> Text console with no mouse. :-)

So you've solved the email problem <smile>.  Having just looked at the
new NS6.2 email, which I really expected to be my salvation as I move on
to a linux-based desktop, I may soon join you.

> > <smile>.  Besides, he signs his posts "Jan" so my guess is
> > that's what he likes to be called <smile, again>.
> 
> D'oh!  I should have noticed...

No big deal... while I thought I'd remembered you as "Eddy", I had to
scroll down to make sure, when I started answering this post... I didn't
want to call you "E.B."; it sounds too formal for a forum <smile>.

Jeff (as my first wife used to say, call me anything, except late for
dinner <smile>)
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