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5 May
2003
5 May
'03
17:42
While I can understand why one could be a little annoyed with the rather dismissive attitude that author has (IRT Linux in general), why fume? Why get all worked up about one author's laziness? If all the author did was copy-and-paste a circa mid-90's anti-Linux rant from a newsgroup or e-zine (as I suspect), and never bothered to do any serious research with any number of modern-day, easily installed distributions (Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat, etc), then shame on him. As far as scaring newbies away, that's just the way it goes. Anybody who relies on only a *single* source of infomation (e.g. Windows-centric sites like http://www.langa.com) is probably too lazy to bother with Linux anyway. Cheers, Todd