[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General

[Frank Pittel]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:34:01PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:42:07AM -0500, Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Oh, please...
> 
> Between the people who had never tried Linux, those who had only
> tried it years ago, and those trying something recent on a (re-)tired
> machine and comparing it to their brand new Vista box, there was more
> dis-information, mis-information and just plain un-information in
> this thread than I have seen in a long time.  It seems that everyone
> was just plain happy with that.  I should not have let facts get in
> the way of everyone's good time.

There's also been a lot of MS FUD about linux and why nobody should
even bother trying to use it because it's to hard.
 
> But, thanks for painting me as the bad guy.  Maybe next time I'll
> just let the list wallow in its orgy of misinformation and uninformed
> opinions.

I thought I was agreeing with you. I discovered linux ~15 years ago and
have been using it ever since.

Frank