Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:51:37 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.7: Re: Instead of freebsd. com, why not... Message-ID: <421430E9.80509@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B03@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <1613371449.20050216040529@wanadoo.fr> <42130481.8000406@nbritton.org> <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr>
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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. > >
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