[TheForge] Re: LINUX?

Tue Apr 23 17:56:10 2002

 I must agree. I LOVE Linux or ANY Unix flavor. After being brainwashed by microbloXX I went back to that which computers were first run by unix. As every Linux user knows it isn't 100% ready for everyone who uses a computer but dog gone it it is STABLE and fast! As the movement graows so will us pengiheads.

Pastor Oso (Paul)
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:11:52  
 Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>Dave Brown wrote:
>
>> Tried it, hated it.
>
>Tried it, loved it, never looked back.  I still have a 486 with Win
>3.1 and DOS 5.0 for some graphics software and one game that I like but
>that's the end of my indenture to M$.
>
>> ... LINUX has it's good points (it does seem to process stuff
>> faster), it's not quite ready for prime time and the overwhelming
>> majority of Windows users.
>
>Regretably, that may be true.  I had the advantage of 10 years as a
>humble Unix user before jumping into the snakepit of admining my own
>Linux box(es).  But for me, everyting worked "out of the box" and I
>only hit problems when I moved to somewhat newer hardware and had to
>fuss with drivers for previously unsupported sound and video.
>
>On the other hand, I still haven't got the web cam going that my son
>gave me for my birthday in February.  But over the weekend Peggy got
>it going on her company XP laptop in about a hour and spent Sunday
>shooting weird-color video and stills of our grandkid.
>
>Linux is for you if, every time you encounter a M$ product, you fall
>into a fit of rage and begin to froth at the mouth.  Then it's worth
>the effort of getting out the intellectual pitons and climbing rope
>and scrabbling up the rockface of the learning curve.
>
>- Mike
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