> >Just out of curiousity, why are so many people
> >trying to get Linux on a Comet (or any computer)?
><snip>
>
>As far as Linux goes, everyone knows that it's a better OS than Apple or
>Microsoft can produce,
Well, I have to disagree on that point.
Linux was a fine OS circa 1995-8, but has become unmanageable
bloatware these days. The last straw for me was forcing the use of
linuxconf... dammit, why run a binary when 5 seconds in vi to add a
few "#" characters in /etc/inetd.conf is all I need/want to do?
grrr...
>but it's got a STEEP learning curve that hearkens
>back to DOS days with its command line interface. That's for geeks.
To me Linux was a nice free (as in beer) alternative to
Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/etc that ran on cheap hardware. No learning curve
at all. But then again, my unix admin days began in 1988.
>Joe
>Schmoe wants nothing more than a point and click interdface that "everyone
>else" uses. Linux's improved GUIs help make that possible and run on just
>about every piece of hardware imaginable.
The 'improved GUIs' on linux are *awful* ... they are, every one, a
bad knock-off of some other OS's GUI... either Windows, or NeXTstep,
or CDE... or whatever. On the server installs I have done I never
even bothered with any of the x-11 packages. If an OSS project can
create and ship an original GUI better designed and more usable than
MacOS, or even Windows(!), I'll eat my spare 2400c.
I stopped using Linux two years ago. The changes and direction was a
big reason, but the real tipping point was that it had become a
cracker's target OS as much, if not more than Windows.
--chuck 'old phart' goolsbee
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