[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD in NY Times (Friday)

[Mikel King]

On Oct 24, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote:

>
>
> Tillman Hodgson wrote on Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:48 AM:
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>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:16:16PM -0400, Jim Brown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Didn't get a chance to write this yesterday, but FreeBSD was  
>>> mentioned
>>> in the Times on Friday, Oct, 21.
>>>
>>> Thomas Friedman's column 'Chinese Finding Their Voice' mentions how
>>> voices in China are now finding an expression through a website
>>> (Toodou.com) with podcasts and blogs.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, neat! I can't read it, but that's a failing on my end ;-)
>>
>>
>>>   "Almost  all of the software that runs Toodou.com is from free
>>>   open-source material on the Web: an Apache Web server; FreeBSD, a
>>>   free Unix operating system; MySQL, a free database system; and  
>>> PHP,
>>>   free programming lingo."
>>>
>>
>> This is one of my pet-peeves: LAMP, the acronym that was supposed to
>> describe this sort of thing, is horribly ill-suited to the task.
>>
>> L - Linux, or any of the 4 main BSDs, or OpenSolaris, or just about
>>     anything open source, really.
>> A - Apache, which luckily enough is usually the case (1.3 versus 2.0
>>     isn't addressed with "A" however).
>> M - MySQL. Or Postgres. Or flat-files, if they'll work in this  
>> case. Or
>>     SAPDB, SQLite, BerkeleyDB,  or any of the newer open source  
>> databases
>>     that are coming out.
>> P - PHP or Perl. Or Ruby-on-rails. Or any of about 10 bazillion other
>>     open source language options. Heck, Yahoo Stores was written in
>>     LISP (Paul Grahams writings are well worth the time to read).
>>
>> *sigh* :-)
>>
>
> I was frustrated too, but there is actually a name for it - AMP.  I  
> dropped
> the 'L' years ago for just this reason.
>
>
> ---
> Hans Zaunere / President / New York PHP
>    www.nyphp.org  /  www.nyphp.com
>

I was always fond of BAMP...;-) Luckily it doesn't quite work for  
Win32 cause WAMP just sounds too weak. Thank goodness the Trusted  
folks did jump on that band wagon either.