Libranet Special Price for SxS List (was Re: Libranet fonts ?)

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:58 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
> If you want a real "buy", I think lindows now is free. This
> is never a good sign, but lindows is a debian distro,
> so the usual debian things work. Even if lindows were
> to go belly up, you would still have a workable debian
> system. They want to you subscribe to the warehouse,
> which offers free software for free and a discount on some
> proprietary software. The main advantage of the warehouse
> is its search engine.
>
> It is a full fledged version of linux, just specially
> engineered to make is as convenient as windows, that is,
> there is no security out of the box save for their default
> firewall. You won't find a more convenient desktop version
> than this.
>
> So for free it can't be beat, IMHO. They just came out
> with a special laptop edition as well as an updated version
> for desktops.
>
> I wouldn't use if for a firewall, but, there are those
> who say that BSD, not linux, is the proper choice for a
> firewall anyway, so, to each his own.
>
> Joel

The various Debian distros that have gone under usually left instructions for 
migrating back to "vanilla" Debian, with various levels of success.  Since 
I've heard that Libranet  is 100% compatible with Debian, I'm sure their path 
will be less painful than that of Xandros, should the need arise.

Since I can't do much of what I want in Windows, "as convenient as windows" is 
setting the bar too low for my needs.   ;-)

As for *BSD's, I love my FreeBSD box.  It serves my database needs well, the 
system and ports are easy to install/update ('portupgrade -arR' upgrades all 
ports.), and learning ipfw was fairly painless.  That said, Linux has better 
java and multimedia support; and many Symantec apps now support the ext3 
filesystem.

My employer's IS department still wants me to move my database server from 
FreeBSD to Linux.  I've agreed to do so whenever IS officially supports 
Linux.  I'm going to request an AMD64 server in next year's budget.  (Is 
postgresql ready to make full use of 64bit OS's?)  I'm hoping that 
associating the move to Linux (SUSE?) with a new server will gain some 
support from the CIO.

Best regards,

Andrew Gould