Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-07-02 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:06:21 -0800 Charlie Kester wrote: > No, it's more than the GPL licensing, although that's bad enough. > > GNU software is often bloated. Way too many commandline switches > (using an overly verbose syntax). Feature creep everywhere, not > just on the commandline. > > It

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-07-02 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:53:53 -0600 Jamie wrote: > o Dot Com > > During the 90's there was much talk about "linux > technology" on the financial news networks by people who didn't > understand it. > > There are a lot of people who have no idea what UNIX is, or > even what an operatin

CFP for Surge Scalability Conference 2010

2010-07-02 Thread Jason Dixon
A quick reminder that there's one week left to submit your abstract for this year's Surge Scalability Conference. The event is taking place on Sept 30 and Oct 1, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. Surge focuses on case studies that address production failures and the re-engineering efforts that led to victor