> > I have discovered a fair amount of BSD advocacy > turned "anti-Linux". > Like Linux zealots, BSDers are not above snobbery. > I think both groups need to be open minded, we all have something we can learn from each other. Alas, the BSD licences would allow linux to 'borrow' or 'steal' good stuff from BSD, but the reverse would not be allowed by the GPL, without forcing it's 'virus' on BSD. (That in itself could be a root cause of anti-linux snobbery by BSD'ers). I guess linux still makes a better workstation os (though there are things in the BSD use of disks that linux could use) and BSD works well closer to the net's main plumbing.
I am thinking of getting some 'bsd cd's and exploring it for use as a firewall system to go between my future isdl (waiting for flashcom) connection and my home lan. I have two win95 boxes and a debian-slink box on the lan now. Guess cheapbyte's bsd sampler (netbsd, openbsd, freebsd) for $14 would be a good place to start. They don't offer the latest version of open or free (2.5 and 3.2), but guess that's close enough. I have a P100 with 32m ram and 2g disk available, have two dec 21041 based pci lan cards on order. Guess that's enough iron for the job. Once the software is installed I suppose the box can be headless and handless (no monitor or kb) and be administered over the internal lan via ssh or something. (So I can hide it in a closet). Thanks for any advise! Ken. ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com