Admin Job at Oxford University.

Jon Mercer jon.mercer at achean.com
Thu Apr 26 13:51:21 BST 2007


On Thu, April 26, 2007 12:07, James Clarke wrote:
> The only advantage I could find for running Ubuntu instead of FreeBSD was
> a
> reliable Flash plugin for Firefox. (If you happen to have a clue about how
> to do this in FreeBSD, i'd love to hear about it).

I wish, I wish, I wish!

>
> On 26/04/07, Jon Mercer <jon.mercer at achean.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, April 26, 2007 01:43, John Murphy wrote:
>> > Hi Joe
>> >
>> > The list has been quiet recently so I doubt if anyone noticed the down
>> > time.
>> > Except the occasional noise about the Manchester BSD UG "Thing" of
>> course
>> > :)
>> > Paul's most recent missive on the subject was a good read.
>> >
>> > If you're looking for a new ISP I recommend an enta.net reseller. Enta
>> > are,
>> > to some extent, an FreeBSD shop, and UKFSN (whom I've been with for
>> about
>> > a
>> > year now) donates its profits to fund OSS. In fact I first heard about
>> > Free
>> > BSD from enta's CTO when I used their dial-up service about ten years
>> ago!
>> >
>> > I've been messing with a certain Feisty Fawn on the desktop recently.
>> > My first experience of any Linux. It's good, in some ways, but I've
>> > already
>> > decided to blow it away and put Free back in its place. I won't go
>> into
>> > the
>> > reasons for doing so here, except to say has certainly made me
>> appreciate
>> > Free's documentation and man pages all the more.
>>
>> I'd be very interested to hear those reasons. Have been using Dapper,
>> Edgy
>> and now Feisty on the desktop and on the whole it works really well but
>> it's not FreeBSD and it's not so easy to configure. I also really miss
>> the
>> ports collection...
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> >
>> > --
>> > ATB, John.
>> >
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