[102940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG laptops (was Re: Customer-facing ACLs)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Sun Mar 9 15:55:01 2008
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <47D43A8F.5050801@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:49:49 -0400
Cc: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, William Norton <bill.norton@gmail.com>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
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So the overwhelming question for me is why? Is it simply the fact
that the native *nix underpinnings are where most users (within the
aforementioned demographic) spend most of their time anyway?
That's what did it for me - repeated attempts to get FreeBSD to run
stable on the Inspiron I had at the time.
Note: The question isn't what's better, the question is what got all
us router and systems jockeys so interested in the first place.
If this is too OT (or has the potential to become so), feel free to
kill it.
On 9-Mar-08, at 3:29 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> i am moving to a macbook pro, or trying to, from a freebsd/winxp. but
> why did they have to 'add value' by mucking with freebsd and
> breaking my
> fingers? and whoever thought the mac screen was good never used my
> alienware 1920x1024.
>
> at the ipv4 econ meet on tasman last week, macs were in extreme
> majority.
>
> randy
