Michael Lankton wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
There are those in the Linux community, who have an attitude problem. They're better than those who don't "understand" *NIX. I'm not accusing you of that Mike....
God, I hope not. There are too many people with far too much time and far too little to do, and apparently they have nothing better to do than judge someone, say, by the mail browser they use. I _am_not_ one of those types. I will use whatever I percieve to be the os that offers me the best combination of performance, stability, and quality applications. Frankly I don't care what os anyone else uses, I don't feel the need to reaffirm my choices by being on a bandwagon. I am prone to coming off as arrogant and terse. I hope I am more helpful here than I am a pain in the *ss. I participate in this forum because I had a difficult time when I first got into unix, and the only real help I found was in books and online documentation. I found the people I encountered on irc to not be very helpful, and when I knew enough that I was in the position of helping people on irc and on mailing lists, I did.
True, and most here are helpful, but this list is not the norm.
Linux DESERVES to be THE OS used by the masses, and as it is now, there's a very good chance that it can be. It's the ONLY STABLE OS that could be used by anyone, yet still be the same OS that many have enjoyed mucking around in.
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linux. On my home pc I triple boot linux-freebsd-win95, and in about 4 weeks I will be quadruple booting linux-freebsd-solaris-win95, and I am setting up a dedicated Openstep4.2-x86 box this fall with the leftovers from upgrading the hardware on my main rig. I am most certainly not the average user, and I think that there are more of US using linux than THEM.
At this point, I'd agree. However, I'm quite certain that there will be massive changes in the install and management of Linux in the near future to change much of this.
Someone I introduced to Linux recently made a very valid comment about the OS/2 community and the Linux community...in general. The former has always been ready and willing to help anyone. Often the Linux community just tells someone to read the * man page.
I detest arrogance in others, feel free to call me out if I ever start producing rtfm type responses. However, some of the questions are obviously due to people wanting to be told how to do something instead of reading the literature like everyone else had to. There are cases where rtfm responses are deserved, but the mature thing to do in those situations is to not respond at all. rtfm doesn't help anyone, and perhaps someone else will be patient enough to help the person. I used to flame like mad, hopefully I've grown up a little.
Hopefully, we all have. Unfortunately, this is NOT the case "elsewhere."
I do indeed feel that linux and all the other free unices have very healthy futures, perhaps not for the same reasons as you, but that doesn't invalidate either of our positions.
Quite right, Mike. As I said, NONE us will loose in all this, and have MUCH to gain. Regards, Fred -- - Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously - Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e