>   While OpenBSD and FreeBSD are their own OSes, you are most probably
> thinking about NetBSD.
> 
>   They may "feel like" linux, but they have nothing to do with Linux.
> They have their own kernel completely. Also they have many design principles
> (eg. related to security) Linux doesn't. Read more at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbsd

Yeah, but aren't they all just implementations of the POSIX standard 
which basically defines exactly how everything has to work anyway?

[On the other hand, I haven't actually tried any of the BSD derivatives 
first, hand...]

>   I know you aren't aware of many things. For example that Solaris has been
> a very viable alternative unix OS for the IBM PC for some years now (some
> claim it has even better out-of-the-box hardware support than many popular
> linux distros).

Interesting. I thought that Solaris only works on Sun hardware. [And, 
either way, that it's quite expensive].

>> There are zillions of web browsers, but only a few popular ones. [For 
>> reasons that escape me, Lynx is apparently quite popular. Judging by my 
>> web logs anyway...]
> 
>   Believe it or not, sometimes people must access the WWW without a
> fancy graphical user interface, eg. from a text terminal.

Interesting... You would think that's a pretty rare requirement.

You would also think that nobody doing this would be bothering to read 
*my* insignificant blog, but hey...

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