Subject: Re: Who is booting Alpha AXP 150 (aka Jensen)
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/27/2001 13:21:22
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:23:31PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2001.12.26 23:55 Duane Eddingfield wrote:
>
> > > SuSE? SuSE??? This @*)$^%@ on precious DEC Hardware? What a
> > disgusting thought. ;-)
> > Well now you see how desperate I am :) I could have them sitting
> > in the closet running nothing!
> OpenVMS? OK, OK, OK. Just a joke. ;-)
OVMS is a nice OS. And that is me, a Unix geek, saying so ;-)
Esp. the security model is much better. Unix all-or-nothing root
privs suck.
> Is'nt there a Tru64 hobbyist licence available?
Yes. But you need (I think) 5.0 T64 or earlier for Jensen.
> so many "better" distributions around like debian or RockLinux (my
> favorit). I have to deal with Susie at work and it is really disgusting
> for a UNIX geek.
>
> I hope this will not lead to just an other Linux-distri-war. ;-)
Duh..
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