[sf-lug] On a slight BSD tangent...

[acohen36]

Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> ... a short-lived small firm named Easy Software Products (which
> was mostly one guy, Michael Sweet) released CUPS (Common Unix Print 
> System[..]) as a fresh, from-scratch approach starting in 1999, and was 
> immediately and enthusiastically adopted by practically all Unixes 
> including Macintosh OS X (but not Free|Net|Open|DragonflyBSD, which
> stuck with lpd)... because it doesn't suck.

Speaking tangentially about *BSD's "which stuck with lpd", someone 
from Anchorage's AlaskaLUG put up an OffTopic posting earlier today 
entitled 'unbranded pfSense?'[1]. Apparently, both pfsense[2] and 
OPNsense[3] are FreeBSD-based specialist operating systems designed for 
firewalls and routers. San Jose, CA's Untangle NG Firewall option[4] OTOH 
is based upon Debian (GNU/)Linux.

Just a brief, mostly unrelated topic of passing interest here.
You may now return to your "regular" topic(s) of discussion :-)
-A

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References
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[1]https://lists.aklug.org/pipermail/aklug/2018-January/000340.html
[2]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pfsense
[3]https://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=opnsense
[4]https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=untangle
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