Re: which linux to get

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From: Peter T. Breuer
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:51

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In comp.os.linux.help J. Bruce Fields <bfields@login.itd.umich.edu> wrote:
> In article <o1a699.bbc.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>,
> Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>>Putting in and taking out an o/s a few times teaches them that they CAN
>>be in charge, not the o/s.

> Couldn't you get the same effect from installing different versions of
> proprietary operating systems? Where does "freedom", of the sort that
> Linux offers, come into it?

In deciding exactly what packages go in, what stays out, in configuring
the system, the packages, in changing the code, in throwing out their
choice for yours.

Peter

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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: which linux to get
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:51:11 +0100
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