From: "Frank Vos" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:52:34 +0100 (CET)
Reply-To: "Frank Vos" <frankvos@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Netlabs

Hello Rick,
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:14:49 -0800 (PST), Rick R. wrote:

>I think that's highly appropriate.
>Not just because running an eCS/OS/2 group on
>none-OS/2 systems would make the whole thing the
>laughing stock of the Internet, but also because
>Windoze servers are known to intentionally mess up
>none-Windoze systems by introducing just enough
>none-standard overhead into protocols to make all hell
>breal loose.
They are not using a window server, but BSD.

>From the same newsletter:

Server:

After years of running the web server on OS/2 I decided to move to FreeBSD 
as a server OS for various reasons which I would like to explain because 
some people do not seem to understand that:

  - My daytime job is administrating servers, most servers I run are 
FreeBSD so I know this OS pretty well
  - netlabs.org provides mainly software for the desktop. I prefer to 
invest time in organizing netlabs.org itself than debugging issues on the 
server just because most of the software I run on the server are made for 
Unix (TRAC, Subversion, Apache...) and might not work on OS/2 that easy
  - I do much more on this server than just providing basic services like a 
little bit of PHP & MySQL. We use quite a bunch of software on this server, 
see http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/R2-d2 if you are interested in the 
details
  - FreeBSD works just fine on this dualcore AMD CPU and because the server 
is in Hamburg (Germany) and I live in Biel (Switzerland) I didn't feel like 
experimenting on new hardware
  - we simply have much more important things to discuss than the OS of 
netlabs.org. Talk about Voyager for example! :-)


Kind regards,
Frank