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Re: Okay, that's too much now!

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On Sep 6, 2015, at 1:56 AM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:

> FreeBSD is not too bad. But you will notice that it has a
> much smaller tester community than GNU/Linux. The focus is
> on big iron, not on personal computers.

Servers, Internet domains -- medium iron. That's why I tried so hard to learn how to make Debian work, back in the day.

> There is a project named PC-BSD which tries to make it more
> desktoply:
>  http://wiki.pcbsd.org
>  http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Turn_FreeBSD_into_PC-BSD%C2%AE

Saw that. The download failed at a bit over a G. And the FreeBSD compile of XFCE failed in Thunar. There seems to be significant trouble in BSD-land. Debian's apt always works flawlessly for me -- it just puts the bits over there so Postfix can listen for SMTP.

> For myself it would not be a good choice, because ISO 9660
> mounting cannot handle files >= 4 GiB or multi-session
> added above 4 GiB.

I don't do movies. I'm just an old text oriented server guy. So that wouldn't be a prob here. As long as it runs reliably, several thousand times, to do a few megs.

But I do need a GUI, for those lovely terminal emulators that scroll back a thousand lines and use a legible type face. That's still a long way from 4G, though, but Gnome's working on that.

> But where to find tape hardware,

> anyway ?

Amazon? They have several. 

-- 
Glenn English

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Okay, that's too much now! Erik Lauritsen <eriklauritsen@yandex.com> - 2015-09-06 02:50 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-09-06 03:10 +0200
    Re: Okay, that's too much now! Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk> - 2015-09-06 11:40 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-09-06 03:10 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 03:50 +0200
    Re: Okay, that's too much now! Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-09-06 04:50 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 06:40 +0200
        Re: Okay, that's too much now! Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-09-06 17:20 +0200
          Re: Okay, that's too much now! Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 17:50 +0200
            Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 20:10 +0200
              Re: Okay, that's too much now! Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 20:20 +0200
                Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 20:30 +0200
                Re: Okay, that's too much now! Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 22:40 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 07:30 +0200
        Re: Okay, that's too much now! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-09-06 10:00 +0200
          Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 11:20 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-09-06 09:40 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> - 2015-09-06 16:00 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-09-08 16:10 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2015-09-07 13:00 +0200

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