[600MRG] Help!

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 18 Oct 2018 at 8:58, Bill Cromwell wrote:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> I don't have Win10 issues here because I have been using Linux since
> right after Linux started AND exclusively (almost) for a long time. 

Ha! I got you beat on that one: the first version of Linux I ever used was ver.0.99!!! :-)

> This is NOT a taunt. With Linux, iOS, Android we have other things to
> distract and trip us. 

Boy! I've been working with Unix (specifically HPUX and FreeBSD) for a long time. I really 
like Unix-based operating systems, but I am not fond of Linux. For one thing, it has 
significant security holes. A long time ago, I found FreeBSD to be both faster and far more 
secure than Linux.

In fact, quite early on, I ran an e-mail server for our College on a PC which used FreeBSD 
for a number of years, until the U's own IT people instituted a university-wide e-mail system.

Yet Linux is used very, very extensively. It has a very extensive user base with tons of 
support for it.

> As you have pointed out, there are hints and plain language solutions
> to all of the problems in all of the variations of all the systems
> posted all over the internet. There are also helpful people on most
> mail reflectors too:) 

Yes. We have to know how to use our resources.

> I do have a Windows XP system (licensed) that runs in a virtual
> machine under control of Linux. I have iOS and Android machines here
> too. There is no panacea. Together we stand :) 

Yup.

My shack computer has three operating systems on it: 1) Win10, 2) WinXP-Pro, 3) TrueOS 
(a fork of FreeBSD) on three different hard-drives. For the present, I use Win10 primarily 
since there is so much common software for it.

BTW, and FYI, I was (among other things) an IT Professional at the University of Idaho for 
over 30 years. I first began to work with 'pooters in about 1970. I remember that at that time 
a 1K (!) of RAM cost $1500.00 and a "HUGE" 5 MB hard drive was $4995.00.

Later,

Ken W7EKB