> 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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