On Thursday 06 January 2005 6:47 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
I've been with Linux since it first appeared for ftp and I've seen it improve to the point where vastly more people can successfully
Jeff - Who doesn't use MS products but still has bunch of OS/2 boxes.
It's difficult at times to convince others. My neighbour distrusts using firefox though IE causes him so much grief with malware, I got the impression that if I had made the attempt to dowload it, I'd have no fingers left. You can bring out a knoppix CD, but they are then suspicious that something foreign and dangerous will land on their hard drive. If you succeed in demoing knoppix, forever after that, Linux will be blamed for any subsequent problems. I can see more widespread use when people at work are forced to use Linux. There are also those who have Linux installed, but keep it a secret until you tell them you run only Linux. Sun hasn't helped either, gnome on Solaris SPARC is a joke and takes away functionality - unless it's smartened up for the final release, it'll give a tarnished impression that could rub off on Linux if the persons are Solaris aware and know next to nothing about Linux. We used OS/2 in our (Amdahl/Fujitsu) mainframe consoles/HMC's and it also was the OS driving the IBM HMC (Hardware Management Console), but they were porting the new HMC to Linux as development of OS/2 stopped. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====
Hi Sid, I love an optimist! PeterB -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --