Yeah but putty is not a replacement for a unix shell. At least for those like me who work only with Linux and sometimes other comercial Unix operating systems. Besides being a real PITA to setup tunnels and other features you can't pipe things through Putty.

While its possible to implement those on Windows through MSSFU/SUA (afaik not available for Windows 8 uh?) or Cygwin, its just too weird and alien to the underlying operating system.

Whoa! They've ported beadm to FreeBSD too? I feel stupid for not knowing it.

That tool is awesome. You can actually chose what version of the operating system you want to boot (from ZFS clones and snapshots) from the boot loader.

By the way its one of the few Unices that I operate nowadays that have crappy NFSv4 and Kerberos support.

And I'm not even talking about what they've did to their server operating system.

The saddest part is that there wasn't anything cool implemented on OS X since Snow Leopard. I'm talking about things like Grand Central Dispatch, Time Machine, ZFS (although it didn't worked out), OpenCL and whatnot. They just keep adding more and more Facebook and Twitter fagotry nowadays and it keeps getting worse like removing RSS from Safari.

Its all about using Facebook from Starbucks.

Weirdest thing is that SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop has the best Gnome configuration I've ever use.

I would kill to have some mod points to mod up this fellow AC who have read past the first book of Dune.

Dude... calm down. People who write "M$" may be childish or just repeating an overused joke but on the other side you are trying too hard.

Squid works fine with Kerberos and AD authentication. And since Vista and Windows 7 are a pain to setup Proxy authentication on Squid ntlm_auth most people should be using Kerberos or digest right now.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Authenticate/Kerberos

Do it! Report the results.

But I still have all my MobileMe services available on iCloud. My mail, my contacts and everything else are still there. All except idisk which I didn't used anyway and they've warned a year before closing it down. They also offer me free 25GB instead of 5GB of standard iCloud because of my old MobileMe account.

I've forgot to add this funny piece of information:

SuSE Linux Enterprise SP2 doesn't support ext4. It will mount ext4 volumes as read only in order to facilitate migration from ext4 to supported file systems including BTRFS.

https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/11-SP2/#fate-306585

http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes11/stor_posixvol_lx/?page=/documentation/oes11/stor_posixvol_lx/data/posixvol_new_oes11sp1.html

I think there is the possibility that they might be planning to replace NSS on Open Enterprise Server with BTRFS.

X over SSH is a real pain to use over internet. Not that I'm recommending Splashtop.

Have you checked freenx?

I know that a lot of people working on NASA doesn't use Windows.

And then there is this talk again about people replacing email with something.