From: "Robert Comer" 

> I agree about the AS/400's for servers.  I used to car pool with a guy who
> used to rave about the System 38's (I think that's the right number).

Yep, the System 38 was the direct ancestor of the AS/400.  It's called an
i5 now, but it's still the same thing.  Very stable, very scalable, very
easy to admin, and easy to program.

- Bob Comer


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>
> OK, SUSE is the Linux I've been playing with as my desktop OS as well.
>
> I agree about the AS/400's for servers.  I used to car pool with a guy who
> used to rave about the System 38's (I think that's the right number).
>
>  /m
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:32:03 -0500, "Robert Comer"
> 
> wrote:
>
>>> For servers, I prefer FreeBSD over Linux.  :-)
>>
>>For real servers I prefer AS/400's, but they're to expensive for
home. 
>>
>>I'm not going to use SUSE on my server as a server OS, I'm going to use it
>>as a desktop...
>>
>>>
>>
>>In some things it is for me, but not everything.
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>
>>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>>>
>>> For servers, I prefer FreeBSD over Linux.  :-)
>>>
>>> For perimeter protection, I prefer OpenBSD.
>>>
>>>  /m
>>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:37:27 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Unfortunately I have to deal with it at work to stay compliant with
>>>>division
>>>>policy, but for home I already moved to OpenOffice 6 months
ago. (it's
>>>>cheaper...)
>>>>
>>>>I still use WinXP at home on a couple PC's, and they'll
stay for now as
>>>>well
>>>>as on my work PC and laptop. I still like Windows better
than any other
>>>>desktop OS, and WinXP is the one that works the best for me
right now.
>>>>(and
>>>>it's a good host for running my VPC and VMWare, and
development stuff.)
>>>>
>>>>I just wiped one of my home servers (Win2003) about 5 hours ago in
>>>>preparation for loading SUSE Linux.
>>>>
>>>>- Bob Comer
>>>>
>>>>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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>>>>>> > That's just plain unacceptable to me.  :(
>>>>>
>>>>> I also.  One of the several reasons why I refuse to
"upgrade" to any
>>>>> Microsoft
>>>>> product that possesses the Product DeActivation feature.
>>>>>
>>>>>  /m
>>>>>
>>> [trim]
>>
>

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