Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #677

From:	"madodel" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Netlabs
Date:	Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:10:12 -0500
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

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. Just to clarify, from what I have read netlabs is not running windows, but is running FreeBSD. The change was mostly because Adrian is already admin for several BSD machines and it makes his life easier to have them all the same. See http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.netlabs.org for confirmation. I also think it is silly to require someone to use a specific platform especially when they are deriving no livelyhood from their service, but that is just my opinion. I prefer OS/2-eComStation myself, and that is my primary, almost exclusive systems here for the past 14 years, but I also have Macs now for video processing, and even installed Linux on a couple machines to look at it. That said, the two organizations I have been associated with, VOICE and Warpstock both continue to be hosted on OS/2 machines. But that has not always been the case depending on the site they were hosting things on. I'm sure if someone offered netlabs substantial ongoing, committed support to host it on an OS/2 machine Adrian might reconsider. But the fact is he is providing a free service to the OS/2-eCS user community and he has to take into account what is a most efficient way to do it. Mark (I have no connection to netlabs other than a user of the many free products they serve, I'm just setting the record straight.) -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2007 - Where?, http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938

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