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From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Adrian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
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> While I believe that Linux can be an excellent alternative to M$ Windos, I
> must admit that my greatest fear is that it will be "dumbed down" to cater
> for ordinary users. This fear, while not totally baseless, is unlikely to
> eventuate. There will always be serious computer users, who don't want a
> "dumb" OS. There are, and always will be, apps to cater for these people,
> especially since these are the people who code most Linux apps anyway. KDE
> too "dumb" for you? Use WindowMaker, or BlackBox, or XFce... Think the
> default Linux kernel is too bloated? Recompile it and include only what
you
> need. Linux is the most scalable OS ever to exist, and this scalability is
> increasing with time. Linux can be whatever you make it to be. Want it to
> run a Windos competitor? With GNOME and KDE it already is. Want it to work
at
> the enterprise level? Kernel 2.4 supports the high-end processors like the
> Itanium in multiprocessor configurations and up to 64GB of RAM. Want it to
> run a PDA? Compile a tiny kernel and run something like QT-embedded or
> GTK-embedded. And the most important point is that Linux excels in all
these
> scenarios. See my point?
I guess I am the "dumb Windoze user" many of you refer to, because I am
having one H*** of a time getting Linux to communicate with my Windows
boxes. I have tried 5 total re-installs, sometimes I'm able to ping the
linux box from my Win2K box, then after tweaking using linuxcfg, it doesn't
work.
After 12 years in the industry as a Cobol programmer, and working with
DOS and Windows from it's first release, I thought I had a little more
knowledge the the average person. I maintain that Windows runs the first
time and any slightly trained monkey can use it from then on. I value linux
as a suberb server, and I'm going to continue in my attempts to get my home
network up and running with linux, as opposed to using the Windows standard
peer-to-peer networking, but as far as networking - this is not for the
feeble-minded!!
By the way, I am defending, nor blasting either product (Win & Linux).
I feel they both have their place.
