SPAM: Score 3.7: Re: Instead of freebsd. com, why not...

[Nikolas Britton]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>Nikolas Britton writes:
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>>Care to extrapolate on your comment?
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>I've already done so, several times.
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No, you haven't or I didn't see it.

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>>You'll need X just to install Oracle on your server.
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>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?
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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?
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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.

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>>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.
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>I like lynx.  Simple and fast and secure.  And Google works very well
>with lynx.
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