Quoting Anuerin G. Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > *cross-posted to plug and ph-linux-newbie*
_De_-crossposted for this reply. Please remember that not everyone is on all of those lists. Sending crossposts of that sort is likely to create headaches for the listadmins, if nobody else. > Nice article that everybody recommending linux to another user might > want to read. > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3297 Fairly old news, but well-written with some sadly annoying parts near the beginning. He says: I'd like for a minute that everyone reading this focus on the last part, the "especially if you want to take down Redmond" part. I'm not sure when using Linux became synonymous with trying to run Microsoft out of business, but at some point in the past year or so, it did happen. No, it didn't. That's just content-free drivel we've been hearing from OS-advocacy trolls for more than a decade. While it may be true that most Linux users have a certain amount of spite, and maybe too much in some cases, for Microsoft.... Typically, a whole lot less spite than do the company's own userbase, because they get annoyed by the software daily, while we aren't. Updating Linux is more time consuming and in some ways more difficult than updating windows. # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ;-> (He does mention that, while dismissing the related upgrade path as "typically" not a solution on Linux systems generally. Well, gosh, Preston, it typically is on mine!) The above was just his setting up a basically fake dramatic tension by trotting out traditional dumb OS-advocacy debate points and straw men. Which was mildly disappointing and tiresome. But the rest of the article is extremely well stated, and worth reading. -- Cheers, Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
