Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread argathin
Greg Thomas writes: This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread Damond Walker
3. Do companies have IS departments to fix problems, or do the IS people call Microsoft? Yes, and yes. When they run into an MS problem where the code needs to be fixed they call MS and they wait a year or two and maybe it gets fixed. Or they're simply told "not to do that." :)

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread Greg Thomas
This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books say

RE: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread Etienne Joubert
on the contrary, the users should always be informed of what is happening in the admin department so they don't come and bother you. In the end they are the stupid one's as far as the working of the puters go, so if you tell them what's going on they feel a certain importants and they'll

OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread George Toft
Isolated Government Leech asks: This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, George Toft wrote: This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS You're being sarcastic... right? If our computers don't work right, our first step is reboot Win95 (clients) or NT (server), wherever the

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread Vidiot
Big Questions: 1. Why such an uproar over OS's when most problems are in the applications (except when NT munched itself one week after I took over). Because, IMHO, you have been misled. It is the underlying OS that is a majority of the problem when it comes to Win95 and NT. Why?

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread Tim Hockin
Big Questions: 1. Why such an uproar over OS's when most problems are in the applications (except when NT munched itself one week after I took over). But for a server platform - even an errant application SHOULD NOT BE ABLE to crash the server. 2b. Do companies call Microsoft or

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread Greg Thomas
This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books say management should

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-22 Thread William Jackson
Great answers to the subject line. Thanks, William H. Jackson Jr. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with