From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 11 08:01:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FC216A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:01:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BEC43D1D for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:01:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.chello.nl [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3AF80F8; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92576-04; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.2.110]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F4680EB; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40F0F3B8.3060009@wcborstel.nl> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:00:56 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Stevens References: <200407110034.i6B0Ymi06584@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.domain.tld cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 08:01:06 -0000 Kevin Stevens wrote: > > [snip] > In an ISP of any size, the CS reps will be almost totally divorced > from the infrastructure team. What OS' they support for customers has > very little to do with what they run on the backside. > > KeS True there. They only support Bill's software and a Mac just because it are the two most used OS'. (You can't say that from Linux because every distribution is different and has different paths and such) For example, here in the Netherlands we have several ISPs where the service desk employees simply have a list in fromt of them with questions, but know nothing about computers at all. You can't expect of them to figure out how to get your connection up and running with all those Linux distributions, or BSD projects. Would be rather a PITA if one has an HP-UX, AIX or ALPHA machine serving as an internet gateway, don't you think? Anyway, my ISP (Demon, for the Dutch folks on the list) is running FreeBSD (at least, their webservers. Not really sure about the rest), and they don't give support on FreeBSD either. They only support Windows and Mac as well. Which makes sense to me though. They have skilled folks on their service desk, but still you can't expect of them to know various of *NIX flavors. So it got a little bit long, but at least you have my two cents. Cheers, Jorn > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > . >