Robert Russell wrote:
>
> In mid-1997 I began tinkering with Linux. Slackware, Debian,...
>
> A mechanical engineer I was then working for told me that it was a dead
> OS, merely my rebellion against Bill Gates and M$.
>
> It really began, for me, as a way to at least approach the OS I was
> introduced to on Sparc Stations.
>
> I've got a lot to learn, but that is what I like about it, as well as
> it's stability.
>
> Pretty strong heart beat for a dead OS. HP, IBM, Oracle, Intel,
> Informix....what do these guys know that I don't?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
>
Hi Bob,
Welcome aboard Linux!
On May 8th of last year I had my umpteenth crash while running Win95 on
my home system. I program professionally, and while I have to tolerate
2 to 4 crashes a day at work, I decided I didn't have to tolerate
crashes at home. In 1995 a friend of mine showed me a new OS he'd found
called Linux. He had it dual booting on his NT machine. He got eight
copies of Doom running in the demo mode simultaneously, whereas only
four would run adequately on the NT side. And more importantly, he said
it hadn't crash once since he installed it. "Sure, sure" I thought, and
dismissed his toy as a curious backwater of computers. Win95, which I
had recently installed, was where things were going. In 1998 I thought
of that demo and went looking to see if Linux had survived the
intervening years. Had it! Wow!
I've had only one crash of Linux, last fall while running 5.3, and that
was caused by 1) the result of a program I wrote while trying to learn C
and 2) my lack of knowledge about how to pop up virtual terminals to
regain control of programs that have run amuck. During the winter
months I left my box on for weeks at a time, bringing it down and
unplugging it only to avoid possible lighting strikes this spring.
Knowing your OS won't give up on you is a comforting thought. Not
having to (re)buy those "doctor kits" that supposedly prevent Win95
crashes, or aid in recovery when it does, is also nice. The biggest
thing though, is the FUN Linux restores to computing!
JLK
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JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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