The last round of Ubuntu weirdness had been explained. Random failure from drive's on board controller. Installing on HP 17" laptop because I found a new 750 GB drone I forgot I even had.
@matigo Because your client no work from /bin/sh? Working on BSD box with no X11
Some light reading will arrive on Wednesday..
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition) [amazon.com]
@jextxadore I have an acquaintance in California who evangelizes Emacs. I can't bring myself to use it after switching to VIM in 2000. :)
@hybotics They are moving away from the very concepts that make Unix appealing to begin with. I'm not interested in following them there.
@streakmachine I was recently asked to make one for a customer that was compatible with the one they have been running on a DOS machine.
This was answered with, "No thank you".
@hybotics I've moved almost all of my stuff over to it. There are a few things I haven't yet. I still run a RHEL 6 server at the house and at the office for various things. These will eventually be phased completely out.
*nix for life!
Not whatever Linux is slowly mutating into
The way FreeBSD has said, "Eh, whatever. No problem", to everything I've thrown at it so far makes me smile.