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Jamie Rishaw-Misiak (jamie@arpa.com) wrote:
: Since when is Linux this great OS?  It's so broken, blah.. We run all Solaris
: on sparc's, and FreeBSD on the few PC's we have for DNS, etc.. 

	No offense, but I've seen a LOT of people that aren't exactly
happy with "Slowlaris" as they call it. ;)  Though you may be in luck...
There's a Red Hat Linux 4.0 for Sparcs now. ;)  
	Besides.. that's what Caldera's Network Desktop is for.. if you
want the stability, technical support, etc. of a "real" commercial Unix.
(I guess it seems you haven't tried it.. would you be interested in
purchasing a copy to try? :)

: To install Lin(s)ux on a machine, you have to download the boot disk, the
: root disk, if it's redhat you have to download two root disks, slackware
: makes you also get 8 "A" disks, and if you want network code you have do
: download six "N" disks, total of SEVENTEEN disks.. hardly what I'd call
: a "great operating system".

	Linux is comprised of a 300k-700k kernel image file that contains
your drivers and all the kernel code needed to operate the system..
everything else is a product of the particular distribution you're using.  

	Uhh.. ever hear of a CD-Rom?  Like 85-95% of Linux installations
are from CD-Rom.  Other than having to figure out how to use rawrite
(braindead simple) to write the boot and 2 root disks to floppies FROM the
cd-rom I don't see where it is that complicated.  Are you saying that
FreeBSD installs itself?  "Okay now... hold the CD-Rom above your computer
and chant the magic words... now shake the CD-Rom a bit and the magic bits
will fall into your computer.. now you can reboot and FreeBSD's boot
process will come up!  There you go now.. a fully working FreeBSD system
magically configured to fit your networked environment.. wow.. even the
ip's are set right!"

	Anyway.. if making 3 disks scares you, buy Caldera's Network
Desktop for $99 (or whatever it is), take the floppy out of it, stick it
in the drive, stick the cdrom in the drive, reboot, and walk through the
easy to understand menus.  
	(BTW: I believe The "official" Red Hat Commercial Linux 4.0 boxed
set ($49.95 or $36 at some places) comes with premade floppies,
installation guide, cd-rom, tech support, etc.  If you're scared of it
Jamie perhaps you should look into NT... It looks pretty easy to install
as well.)

: Not to mention half the things it doesnt compile..

	Yet again I must tell you these things!  GCC != Linux!!!  GCC is
the compiler!  If it doesn't compile something then most likely the code
you're trying to compile is broken or written badly.  Granted, C code for
Unix sometimes isn't the most highly portable stuff but the majority I've
seen compiles fine with no or only a few changes.  

: It's a brand new OS as far as OS's go.. it was written from scratch, and
: still has a lot of bugs in it.

	Hmm.. it *is* at least 4 years old and builds upon the 27+ year
old Unix technology.  
	Bah, I can't believe even YOU could possibly be this closeminded..
	Probably a troll... hmm.. and I just wasted 25 minutes of my time
arguing the point.. obviously you haven't tried a Linux distribution in
the last 3 years if ever.. either that or you've been drinking heavily
lately. :)


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