On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:48, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> Rita:
> >�I would *love to see a product that will give a lot of people a
> >�highly usable alternative to M$, because I dislike their
> >�tactics.
>
> �
> � �I rebuilt my system this morning. It was a Pentium III-450 oc'd to
> 600. Now with a different motherboard, cpu and sound chip, it's an AMD
> Athlon 1.4gig. �I booted it for the first time into Mandrake 8.0
> (+cooker), overclocked to 1470, on the drive that was runnin Mandrake
> in the old system. �Not even a burp. �Only thing I had to do was run
> harddrake to config the new integrated sound chip. Found that I could
> reliably run 'mprime's torture test at 1.55 gig without raisin the
> default voltages and stay below 50C under heavy load with the cpu.
>
> � �WinSUX, OTOH, wouldn't boot into anything but failsafe (even at the
> default 1.4g). It kept search'n for new hardware, install it, ask to be
> rebooted, �over an over .... well this went on for more than a dozen
> times till it finally got it halfway right enough to boot to a normal
> desktop. �I was on the fence of even putting winBLOWS on this new
> system, now I'm sorry I did. I'm gonna miss Flight Sim 2000, but I'm
> fixin to just delete Windoze off that drive altogether and make some
> more room for the Penguin. BTW, still no sound in WinSUX, and there's
> still much to reconfigure .... If I bother.
>
> � �Who cares if Billy gets split? �People who're savvy enough to
> realize Windoze SUX? �.... or the vast masses that'll support Winblows
> jus 'cause they don't know any thing better? �Whether Billy had won or
> lost yesterday wouldn'a made any diference with his flock. I believe
> they get what they deserve. �Everyday, many people get the kind'a
> winblows experience I gave above. �Most don't know or care that
> Winblows is the culprit, they'll use it anyhow.
Unlike other WinDOS competitors, GNU/Linux will never die. This is thanks to
its GPL underpinnings. M$ can't use its code (legally), and they sure as hell
can't buy it out.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"I didn't get rich by writing lots of cheques."
-- Bill Gates, in 'The Simpsons'
