Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

Marian Hettwer mh at kernel32.de
Wed Mar 30 11:40:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:15:27 +0200, Marko Lerota <mlerota at claresco.hr>
wrote:
> Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> Am impressed - I didnt realise it was possible at all under amd64! I
>> ended up using 'gnash' which doesnt really do the job to be honest,
>> but it better than nothing. These days I find the best solution is
>> keeping a copy of Windows inside VirtualBox for those moments
>> when I need stuff that freeBSD can't do (primarily talking to HP iLo's
>> these days, since I can't make Java work in Firefox)
> 
> Now you reminded me how pissed I was as a sysadmin :-). I had to deal
> with IBM RSA's and Dell DRAC's. They all use Java. Use to hate everything
> that came with Java :-).

hehe. yeah, I had the very same impression, back in the days.
It's totally Off Topic, but with HP iLO go and use the serial console
via ssh.
Way better than the bloody java applet ;)

./Marian


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