-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Woodard [mailto:schreck@telocity.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:11 PM To: SLE Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE CTO and President Steps Down If you live and breath sys admin, then of course it's easy. If it's the 7th of 10 (time consuming) hats you wear, Linux can be very hard to use. I still "break" things and then have a really hard time getting it to work again. Lib this, permission that, missing this, on and on. Yeah, I love the power, but for me it's an extended hobby/passion of love thing. Like I said, others in my shoes would never go through the learning curve and would opt for a Mac server, or a Windows server. -------------------------------------- One of the things I like most about Linux is that you *can* fix something if you've made a cockup. On windows I've suffered irretrievable Registry corruption and missing or incompatible DLLs thanks to the anarchic way that software is installed (with 3rd party software overwriting key system DLLs). It's always shocking when I hear experienced computing colleagues casually mention how they've just reinstalled a brand new system because they loaded the wrong drivers for their printer or digital camera. I have a friend who is a corporate 'expert' on Windows and managed 4 reinstalls of W2K in the first week as he tried to sort out the various driver issues on his new system! When I tried to suggest that it was indicative of how inferior Windows is he became extremely annoyed (although he hasn't got much hair left to tear out after all his windows troubles). Tim Harrell