john harvey wrote: > You forgot to mention all those lovely config files!
You say that like it's a bad thing. Seriously... the text files are wonderful. I had a situation many years ago where I was trying out a desktop and moved the panel to the side and then selected some option (I forget which now). Something weird happened and I couldn't get it to open up again. Restarting the GUI and rebooting the box - neither set the panel back to where I wanted. If this had been Windows, I would have had to hack the Registry, if I could get to it, and pray that I could figure out what the right value was (not too many Registry entries have comments that describe what the values means, do they?) it worked, because, let's face it, the Registry can be... troublesome. The normal solution would be "Oh, well, gotta reinstall." With Linux, I rebooted to runlevel 1, opens up a text editor, edited the config file that controlled the startup placement of the panel, set it back to the original setting (what was the value.... oh yeah, it's documented right here in the config file, imagine that!), and started the GUI. Problem solved. When I got home, I filed a bug report with bugzilla, and was informed of the progress of the bug and heard when it was fixed. Oh yeah, I'd only been using Linux for a few months at the time... When's the last time you filed a bug report with Windows? Gotten an acknowledgment back from the dev team? Heard about when it was fixed? Don't everyone raise your hands at once... Whil > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Kevin Cully > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Linux Advantages > > Books have been written on this subject. <g> > > What are the advantages of Linux over Windows? Freedom. If you want to > upgrade, then you upgrade without product keys, etc. If you DON'T want > to upgrade, then don't! Amazing! I'm not coerced to upgrade my OS or > FOSS software. > > Some will say that Linux is confusing. There are too many distros. But > that is freedom! I'm free to choose. I recently tried Puppy Linux > (hate the name) on some really old laptops, and it rocks for old > hardware! At one time this was a $5000 laptop, current value $50, and > now it would sit useless if it wasn't for the choices of small and > lightweight distros. > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
