From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 05:51:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF9A16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:51:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1D943D31 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:51:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20050217055143i92004u371e>; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:51:43 +0000 Message-ID: <421430E9.80509@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:51:37 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B03@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <1613371449.20050216040529@wanadoo.fr> <42130481.8000406@nbritton.org> <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.7: Re: Instead of freebsd. com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:51:44 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Nikolas Britton writes: > > > >>Care to extrapolate on your comment? >> >> > >I've already done so, several times. > > No, you haven't or I didn't see it. > > >>You'll need X just to install Oracle on your server. >> >> > >Oracle? I thought the big deal with software like FreeBSD was that it >is open source, and free. And you want me to buy and install Oracle on >it? Or has Oracle been released to the free open-source world? > > One reason would be that it's required for the Compiere open source ERP/CRM software package. They are tring to port it to PostgreSQL and Sybase but those are a long way off because they need $20,000 to do it: http://www.compiere.org/ >What's wrong with something like MySQL? > > Umm where do I start... :-) I'm quite happy with PostgreSQL and can't use MySQL anyways because SQL-Ledger doesn't support MySQL because MySQL is lacking required features. > > >>Typically I install X (and nothing else, like; >>WM, desktop, gtk, qt, fonts, etc.) and links on my servers. This is >>because it's sometimes useful to do your googling (etc.) for why your >>server isn't working right at the server and for >>administering/installing web apps. text mode browsers just suck. >> >> > >I like lynx. Simple and fast and secure. And Google works very well >with lynx. > >