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I'm a complete newbie with Linux and was thinking of using something
like FreeBSD or Mandrake for an Internet server ? but whats the best
alternative for K9 and Proxomitron under Linux?

Thanks for any replies.
 
Lee Marsh said:
I'm a complete newbie with Linux and was thinking of using something
like FreeBSD or Mandrake for an Internet server ? but whats the best
alternative for K9 and Proxomitron under Linux?
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FreeBSD ain't Linux.
FreeBSD another Free (as in speech) operating system.


Hub
 
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FreeBSD ain't Linux.
FreeBSD another Free (as in speech) operating system.
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Are you drunk?

I guess not, otherwise you would have remembered "free as in beer".
 
Darrien said:
Are you drunk?

I guess not, otherwise you would have remembered "free as in beer".
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Nope. FreeBSD is Free (as in speech) software.


Hub
 
Darrien said:
Free as in speech, but *not* as in beer?

Are you sure you aren't thinking of OpenBSD?
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Free, Net and Open BSD are all under the same BSD licence.


Hub
 
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FreeBSD ain't Linux.
FreeBSD another Free (as in speech) operating system.
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Are you drunk?

I guess not, otherwise you would have remembered "free as in beer".
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No, he meant free speech as in the U.S.

FreeBSD is a Unix derivative, not a version of Linux.
 
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FreeBSD ain't Linux.
FreeBSD another Free (as in speech) operating system.
Click to expand...

Are you drunk?

I guess not, otherwise you would have remembered "free as in beer".
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No, he meant free speech as in the U.S.

FreeBSD is a Unix derivative, not a version of Linux.
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I am well aware of that.

I asked only because I most often see Linicks refered to as "Free as in
speech, free as in beer".
 
| FreeBSD is a Unix derivative, not a version of Linux

Isn't Linux a Unix derivative ????
 
I can only see a Windows version of POPfile for download,
do you have to somehow compile the source to make it work on Linux?.
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<http://popfile.sourceforge.net/manual/installing.html>

Cross-Platform Version

Get Perl <http://www.perl.com/> running on your machine, then
download the POPFile Perlzip from the POPFile Home Page, and
extract it to a directory of your choice. On Windows platforms,
launch with the command perl popfile.pl.

Btw, thanks for switching to standard quote indicators. Now I can get
rid of a line in my score file. :)
 
Thanks Tone, I can only see a Windows version of POPfile for
download, do you have to somehow compile the source to make it
work on Linux?.
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It's a script. You don't have to compile anything. Just extract and go.
It does say so in the installation instructions.

Tone
 
| FreeBSD is a Unix derivative, not a version of Linux

Isn't Linux a Unix derivative ????
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I think it's more like a Unix-compatible OS. At any rate, Linux and
FreeBSD are like siblings, not parent/child.
 
I think it's more like a Unix-compatible OS. At any rate, Linux and
FreeBSD are like siblings, not parent/child.
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More like second cousins.

Linicks is a clone of Minix, Minix is a clone of Unix.

*BSD has descended directly from the original Unix code.
 
FreeBSD is a Unix derivative,
not a version of Linux
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| I think it's more like a Unix-compatible OS.
| At any rate, Linux and FreeBSD are like siblings,
| not parent/child.

Cousin tlshell ....

That's closer to the way I think of it as well,
with Unix as a parent of FreeBSD, Linux, and
a whole raft of other Unices with Multics as
the grand-parent of them all ....

http://www.multicians.org
 
Darrien said:
More like second cousins.

Linicks is a clone of Minix, Minix is a clone of Unix.
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Wrong.
Linux is a POSIX compatible operating system that look a lot like a
UNIX system. But, beside some point of design, it borrows nothing from
UNIX.
*BSD has descended directly from the original Unix code.
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BSD ans SystemV both have the same origins.


Hub
 
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