@ewwhite Generally there's a business reason to go with one or the other. For example, if being a fat neckbeard aspie piece of shit is essential to the bottom line, you'd go with gentoo.
I'm one of those who'd love to use FreeBSD for any *nix services at work, but it's just madness compared to the ease and stability of modern linux distributions like ubuntu LTS and CentOS (or RHEL)
the problem however is that ubuntu LTS is a PAIN to use if you run anything that faces the web.. they only update if there are security updates, and you can't sit at PHP 5.2 if your app needs php 5.3.. so you have to find some home made repo with no guarantee of security
vmware tools works fine on ubuntu really.. vmware even has official packages/repo for it
you could sit at FreeBSD 6.2, while the latest release was 8.0 and still use the exact same software repo (since it compiles instead of using precompiled)
@JeffFerland Sure it does. It's called one year of free micro instance usage. The trouble comes when a 5-year-old decides to get a job as a bike messenger and cruise around Manhattan with the training wheels on.
@ShaneMadden I actually think that Dell might be able to sell Blackberries to enterprises in the same way that it sells workstations and servers. I've talked to plenty of businesspeople who lament the loss of all-business phones with keyboards, without even getting started on the security angle. Imagine if they waved even a small feature wand and started selling Blackberries that would tether to Dell laptops for always-on internet access just like my iPhone tethers to my MBP.
@ShaneMadden Imagine if they released a version of BES that doesn't suck. (okay, now I'm really dreaming.)
@ShaneMadden The trick is understanding that, in terms of the overall smartphone market, it's a niche product and it's not supposed to be able to run Angry Birds.
I just solved a problem that I've been curious about for a while: how to get directly to my @gmail.com inbox when I'm also signed into Google Apps accounts @myteachingjob.edu and @myconsultingjob.com: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/25228/…
(It's a slightly unsatisfactory solution because it doesn't cover every hypothetical scenario, but at least I've solved my own problem and developed a better understanding of how multiple sign-in works.)