On Tuesday 12 June 2001 09:19 am, you wrote:
> The purpose of this flame-baiting post is to restore some balance of
> argument to this normally windows-bashing milieu.
>
> 3 months ago, I signed up for a long-awaited DSL connection.
> Of the modems available on the market, the Alcatel Speed Touch USB
> attracted me, especially since at the time I was fast running out of PCI
> slots, and couldn't justify the price of a router.
Go cry to Alcatel. If they told you it would work with Linux it's their fault.
You get what you pay for. You don't need to buy a separate router. The
Alacatel Speed Touch ethernet version works with any computer and operating
system with a standard ethernet card. I've used it with Linux, MacOS,
Windows3.11,NT,95, 98. If you have an extra desktop or laptop in the house,
you buy a cheap hub and use them all on the same cable. I bet you can't do
that with a USB cablemodem.
<snip>
>
> The fragmentation of development efforts and multiplicity of distros, along
> with the abysmal support of most hardware devices, may well keep Linux
> forever trapped in single-digit percentage market share.
>
> Fortunately Freenet, even though open-source, has not yet fallen prey to
> the havoc of multiple distributions and configurations.
> While Linux has its strengths in backroom server situations, trying to push
> it onto desktops in its still early evolution is nothing short of
> technocratic masturbation.
>
> David
>
This is pretty funny coming from a guy who tests out the installers for
the Windows version of Freenet. I snicker every time I see the messages
about which version works with which version of Windows. Look how
much trouble it is making installation on Windows easy. Sure, some people
have problems on Linux with Kaffe, but that is ancient Java.
For all the complaining about fragmentation and multiplicity it is absurdly
easy to install Freenet on any distro of Linux. I think I remember you
posting a message about it on this list...
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