On Thursday 23 January 2003 18:41, Frits Wüthrich wrote: > I am not quite sure if you are aware of what Linux looks like today. > I am running SuSE8.1, and it is far from that.
I'm a Solaris and Linux System Administrator. I've been playing with it for 5 years. My workstation at work is running RedHat 8 with VMWare running Windows 2000. Yes it has come a long way. I was making a joke based on previous OS related jokes (airlines, cars, etc) which makes Linux out to be a highly customizable, user-configurable, nuts-and-bolts system. Linux is great, Windows has it's place on the desktop and for groupware and I've no experience with Mac. Christian > > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:01, Christian Skofteland wrote: > > > > I was going to respond to this thread originally with Linux comments. > > Here they are: > > > > If Linux made cameras they would give you a light tight box, paper and > > silver salts. How you use it is up to you. Some people would be > > satisfied with pin-hole cameras and rudimentery film. Others would grind > > their own lenses and develop there own versions of SLRs, view cameras, > > rangefinders, etc. and provide instructions and materials to whomever > > wanted to build them. Many would come up with similar bodies and lenses > > but none would be exactly compatible with any others. Large corporations > > would try to find ways to make money off of them and try to introduce > > "standards" that would never take hold. > > > > Christian
