[K12OSN] OT

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

That's one reason why I no longer live in Seattle; too politically 
correct for me.  MAN does indeed stand for Metropolitan Area Network and 
has for many, many years.

And yes, GNU/Linux does rock, as does Free Software in general.  
GNU/Linux's cousin, NetBSD, set the new LAN speed record--not on the 
experimental Internet2, but on the production "Internet1"--a few months 
ago, using the new TenGig-E NICs on both ends.  I'm fairly sure that 
GNU/Linux could do something similar with a few sysadmin tuning tweaks.  
Try replicating that kind of scalability with Windows.

If this isn't an excellent case for the technical merits of Free 
Software, then perhaps I don't know what is.

  http://www.itweek.co.uk/news/1156035

--TP

Ken Meyer wrote:

>Don't snicker.  When Seattle Wireless (www.seattlewireless.NET) announced
>that it intended to build a MAN (Met Area Net, yes?), there was at least one
>serious, formal protest of the name.
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>Ken Meyer
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>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
>Behalf Of Shawn Powers
>Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 1:54 PM
>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
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>Subject: Re: [K12OSN]
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>troy banther wrote:
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>>Man Linux is kick @$$.
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>Can I hear an AMEN... ;)
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>Not to be sexist, I'm sure Woman Linux is kick @$$ too.  :D
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>hehehe
>-Shawn
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