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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:22:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>
To:        Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   re: windows tech article?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104101022000.22427-100000@aphex.newgold.net>
In-Reply-To: <3AD319C0.7D273729@penix.org>

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I didn't know you were allowed to say "warez" on hackers@

/joseph

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Paul Halliday wrote:

> Taken from:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp
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> "FreeBSD, a UNIX-like system similar to the Linux operating system, was
> used to run the front-end Web servers that=20
> handled login, Microsoft Outlook=AE Express, and Web-based content
> delivery tasks"
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> =09Is it just me or is this statement completely incorrect? A "Unix-like
> system" I always thought It was UNIX. Similar to Linux? I always
> believed that Linux was well, anything but UNIX.=20
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> =09I also fail to see any similarities between FreeBSD and Linux.
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> Maybe they should have said: "FreeBSD, an advanced BSD UNIX operating
> system, which you should not confuse with the silly penguin warez
> available, was used to run the front-end Web servers that handled login,
> Microsoft Outlook=AE Express, and Web-based content delivery tasks. We
> decided that because we leech all the information that passes though
> these servers anyway, that we may as well use M$ Windows 2000 server, a
> patched yet still buggy version of Windows 3.1. Everyone expects
> Mircosoft products to be unstable and they pay us to be beta testers so
> why break the trend.
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> ;P
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> Paul Halliday
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> Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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