From: "Rick R." <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:06:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Netlabs
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I think is says A LOT if even the folks at Netlabs
think that OS/2 is not up to the job :-(


--- madodel <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
wrote:

> 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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