I posted some time ago asking for opinions on freeshell.org's service. Well, the subject says it all really. I paid the $36 donation for ARPA membership, and I'm very pleased. They don't actually run Linux - they tried it but moved to Alphas for stability. They do have about 22000 users, so that's understandable I think. As they say, consumer grade hardware just isn't up to that. They provide PHP/Perl/CGI facilities, 100MB each for mail/web/home and SSH/SCP/SFTP. So I'm happy. Alexis -- "You got what everyone gets. A lifetime." - Death (Sandman by Neil Gaiman) Windows didn't get as bad as it is overnight; it took over 10 years of careful development.
Alexis Lee <memehack@btopenworld.com> wrote:
They don't actually run Linux - they tried it but moved to Alphas for stability. They do have about 22000 users, so that's understandable I think. As they say, consumer grade hardware just isn't up to that.
Nothing stops them running the Linux kernel on non-consumer grade hardware. So, freeshell is not free as in price or freedom then? Shame.
on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:01:55PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Alexis Lee <memehack@btopenworld.com> wrote:
They don't actually run Linux - they tried it but moved to Alphas for stability. They do have about 22000 users, so that's understandable I think. As they say, consumer grade hardware just isn't up to that.
Nothing stops them running the Linux kernel on non-consumer grade hardware. So, freeshell is not free as in price or freedom then? Shame.
Actually, it seems to be NetBSD. I guess it's got better non-x86 support and perhaps raidframe (software raid) is used too.
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