[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General

[Frank Pittel]

John,

It looks like this thread has been reduced to people repeating MS FUD.
I do agree that Linux isn't for everyone and I'm not forced to admit
it. At the same time windows isn't for everybody and in a grow number
of situations windows not only isn't the best choice it's not even
a viable choice.

At work I'm forced to use a windows XP machine and while there are
many aspects of windows that make me want to vomit I've found it to
be reasonably stable. I do have to admit that since it's a laptop I
turn it off at the end of the day and turn it on again at the
beginning of the day so I don't know how it will do running 24/7. For
most of my computing needs I use linux for other needs I use solaris,
OSX and for a growing number of applications my coco.

I can offer to extend this OS flame war by stating that if you want
a stable and reliable platform with maximum performance nothing
(including linux in it's wildest of dreams) can touch solaris.

Then again I spend a lot of time puttering with my coco. It's slow
and needs to be power cycled a lot but I still love it.

Frank


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:06:24AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:13:42AM -0400, Rob Rosenbrock wrote:
> > Congratulations! That was very rude!
>  
> It is rude to spout ignorant opinions essentially accusing those of
> us who choose linux of being some sort of geek-children.
> 
> > Uninformed? No. Even the most fanatical Linux websites would be
> > forced to admit that Linux isn't for everyone. There are many programs
> > that are offered Strictly as source code due to the many variations
> > of Linux and the libraries needed.
> 
> Your tone is insulting, implying that linux users are all fanatics.
> Have you considered that for many of us linux "just works" and Windows
> "just doesn't"?
> 
> Please cite an example of these programs "offered strictly as source".
> Try to make it one that actually has broad appeal.  No doubt there
> are apps available only as source, but only because they are either
> too new to have proved themselves useful or of too limited appeal to
> be worth packaging by the distros.
> 
> John
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