LOL! Thanks for the funny thoughts before I go to bed :-). Wish I was that sharp at this time of night (for me anyway). Matt Wanting to get MCSE by tomorrow too. MCSE = Must Call Support Everyday On Saturday 03 March 2001 02:05, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Saturday 03 March 2001 04:43, scsijon wrote:
It means you only have to buy one pack rather than one for each machine type you want to use it on, and darned cheap at that. If all you only want it for is a straight system, just take the defaults.
scsijon
Jon,
Oh, you mean I can simply stick in a DVD that came out last month instead of 4 years ago, install the system and not mess with the kernel? Yeah, that's porbably true. Never lasted very long in my hands that way, but that's just me. I think we should all learn a lesson from Microsoft here. They set out to make an OS that was highly protable, easily modifiable, robust, secure, etc., etc. They've put in millions if not billions to accomplish this. How on earth can we expect a bunch of internet hackers to do this if *they* can't? I mean. let's get real, MS has retreated from every architecture other than the one they started on.
And multiple file systems? They've proven that maintaining compatability between 3 is impossible, how can we expect Linux to support, what is it 64, 100? We all need to get real here. What advantage is there to being able to run on everything from a cellphone to an IBM Mainframe wtih the same basic OS technology? I mean, who cares if you can write the same code and it ports painlessly to every hardware platform on the planet. Or that the kernel can accept a new driver or file system with virtually not modification?
I mean really, I'm going to go finish my MCSE training tomorrow, I'm done with linux. ;-)
Steve