21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
3:20 p.m.
A lot of these attitudes are held by folks lacking in a wide range of
experience. Once you've done the same things on a number of different
systems, you begin to see that it's easier to use the combination of hardware
and software that works rather trying to force a hardware/software combination
to do what it really doesnt' want to do. Some may find this distasteful, but
it's more effective, sometimes, to hold your nose and plow ahead rather than
trying to dance around the obstacles.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)rddavis.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
animals:
Quothe Dave McGuire, from writings of Sun, Apr 21,
2002 at 02:23:43PM -0400:
Linux is a
mess no matter how you slice it, mostly thrown together by
script kiddies with no experience whatsoever...it's a bad idea to
judge the entire UNIX world on the cleanliness (or lack thereof) of
Linux, because as even the Linux people are fond of pointing out,
Linux isn't UNIX.
Which is why I use FreeBSD and Solaris. There also appears to be a
certain Linux versus anything else attitude, including Linux vs. other
UNIX-like, and UNIX flavors. It wasn't too long ago when most people
who wrote free software for *NIX systems made an attempt to make it as
portable as possible, so that it could be compiled on most *NIX-like
platforms. Many of the Linux hackers, however, it appears, tend to
write their software for Linux, and only Linux, systems, ignoring the
fact that they wouldn't have their Linux software to play with if
other *NIX hackers hadn't written portable code. For example, the
Free Software Foundation from which Linux snatched most of it's
utility programs, etc.
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