[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General

[mike delyea]

I'm a HUGE Linux fanboy :).  I started with Slackware in '97 and since then
I have tried all the major distros with each iteration, Redhat, Mandriva,
Slackware, Ubuntu, Knoppix etc.  Right now I have my main computer dual
booting PClinuxOS and XP and my iBook running Yellow Dog 5.  The major
reason I enjoy Linux so much (yes I know its GNU/Linux for all you pedants)
is because of the sense of adventure and experimentation and exploration and
awe (see Beryl) and community that is missing in the M$ world.  Its also the
reason I came back to the coco.  Finding the cocolist and Cloud-9 and
coco3.com has rejuvenated me and, strangely, excited me about computers
again.

On 5/3/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 03 May 2007, 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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >John
>
> I'll second that exasperated "Oh please" motion, John.  Anyone who came up
> thru the ranks of os9, more or less automaticaly migrated to the amiga
> when
> they needed more, just because it had a motorola brain & a familiar feel
> to
> the way it ran.  And when the amiga wore out, died, whathaveyou, the next
> step was to linux, first on an old x86 box of some sort, and eventually to
> much faster hardware.  I am on my 3rd generation linux box as the main box
> now, and its getting long in the tooth as its only an XP2800 Athlon,
> running
> at an actual 2GHZ, with a gig of ram & about 600GB of drives.  Which ATM
> is
> busy printing a 216 page document from the emc2 project in the background
> as
> I type.
>
> When I made the switch to linux in 1997, windows was not capable of using
> USB,
> its tcp stack was borrowed from BSD complete with its bugs, its
> multitasking
> consisted of putting the program you left to sleep till you callled it
> back
> again, whereas os9, amigados and linux were ALL fully
> multitasking.  Frankly,
> the thought of jumping in the shark pool and becoming a windows user
> never,
> ever crossed my mind.
>
> All of that seemed perfectly logical to me, and 10 years & at least 5
> machines
> later, 3 of which are running here right now, I've never regretted the
> path
> I've taken.
>
> I'm not trying to belittle the windows user all that much, it has gotten
> to be
> a fairly capable os of late, and can run for years of uptime if you never
> let
> it get anywhere near a network cable that is a straight connection to the
> network.
>
> But, so can a coco3 running nitros9.  The very design of that os in the
> level
> 2 configuration, where the app cannot even see the pages of memory the os
> lives in, protects it from an application crash 99.99% of the time, and
> not
> even linux can do that level of dependability in the face of poorly
> written
> aps that go all aglay for nothing more serious than the typu's I can make
> at
> 10 to the minute.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > >
> > > Wait. Don't you mean:
>
> Yes. Just ignore me when I show extreme signs of Alzheimers.
>
>         - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel
>
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