[20:03] <mr_steve> anyone got any recommendations for a good netbook for school? Must be Ubuntu-compatible, of course.
[20:08] <tonyyarusso> I'm using an Asus Eee PC 1000 myself
[20:11] <mr_steve> I'll check that one out for sure then. Asus Eee pretty much started the whole netbook thing, didn't they?
[20:12] <tonyyarusso> Well, OLPC did, but Asus commercialized it.
[20:13] <mr_steve> True
[20:15] <mr_steve> I think I just need something with an excellent battery life, and large-enough SSD. And reasonably priced, since it's coming out of my student loan
[20:17] <mr_steve> Acer Aspire One looks pretty good too. Cheap enough. No SSD though.
[22:51] <Takyoji> Is there such a thing as distros for the BSD variants?
[22:52] <Leaf> more then NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSD, etc. ?
[22:53] <Takyoji> Yea
[22:53] <Takyoji> Like saying is there distros of OpenBSD or FreeBSD, etc
[22:54] <Takyoji> Or is the code difference between BSD variants not that big?
[22:55] <Leaf> I don't know.. sorry
[22:56] <Takyoji> Because to my understanding is that in the Linux world, the only thing that varies between distros is what software the Linux kernel is shipped with (and what minor version branch of Linux).
[22:57] <Takyoji> Whereas BSD variants seem to be different modifications of the original BSD kernel, rather than different software packages shipped with it's kernel.
[22:58] <Takyoji> After all, I'd like to poke around with OpenBSD, considering that it would accomodate my fashionable tinfoil hat.
[22:58] <Takyoji> with the features of BSD jails and so on..
[23:00] <Takyoji> which Linux currently doesn't have
[23:00] <Takyoji> of being able to have a sandboxed X11 application
[23:01] <Takyoji> applications*
[23:22] <tonyyarusso> Takyoji, mr_steve: Could one of you please make sure that the web site has a prominent link to the mailing list with a heading along the lines of "Contact Us" some time tonight?
[23:23] <tonyyarusso> Takyoji: Your answer btw is yes.  To start with, OpenBSD is a fork of NetBSD, and they all share a common root, so you could say that even the big three are distros of the same thing.  Beyond that, there are also things like DragonflyBSD, which is aimed at clustering, and Freesbie, which is a FreeBSD Live CD.
[23:24] <tonyyarusso> Takyoji: also, when making your generalizations, remember the existence of Debian/kFreeBSD :P
[23:24]  * tonyyarusso runs to class
[23:36] <mr_steve> tonyyarusso: added a "Contact Us" heading to the main page, with a mailing list link.