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lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

>>I guess you have not really looked at the guts of unix have you.... 
>>You should not open yourself to snipers by comparing DOS to UNIX. They are
>>just not compareable.
>Right on Bro!!!

>Would anyone out there in net-land
>flame me for suggesting that the
>above above BOZO has never had to install
>or maintain a UNIX system.
Not flaming, but you obviously have never installed Linux. It's even more
easy to install than DOS. Partitioning is the most difficult, but everything
else is a matter of starting an install script and answering >a few< questions.
I mean a few and easy, like: "Do you really want to install GCC now?" etc.

FYI, Linux is a free (in the sense of the GNU GPL) UNIX clone for (E)ISA 386
and up machines. It has most of the goodies of a real UNIX system, like X11R5,
UUCP, GCC/G++/GDB (which is also able to optimize for the 486), SCSI support
(a dozen different controlers), math coprocessor emulation, you can read/write
and even format MS-DOS floppies, etc. There is even a beta XENIX emulation
availlabe. It's really quite good, even though it is still in the beta stadium
and it doesn't have networking yet.

> Unix may be
>good if you have someone else to keep
>it going for you (i.e. the systems manager)
>but try installing it!!!  At least DOS is relatively simple but -
... but - you've never seen Linux.

>In Summary:-

>UNIX sucks, DOS sucks, Windows NT sounds
>like it SUCKS.  In the not to distant future,
>I will be finding out is OS2 sucks the hard way.
>OS2 may be the only way to utilize a PC poperly.
Nope, just FTP Linux from tsx-11.mit.edu or nic.funet.fi, install it. It's free
so what is there to lose???

>Any suggestions on OS2 whether it is worth trying out.
I don't know. I've used v1.3 and I liked it until I began using Linux.

BTW, don't believe what I say, tune in on comp.os.linux and find out for your-
self. Or FTP Linux from tsx-11.mit.edu or nic.funet.fi, it's there for your
hacking pleasure.

Greetings,
Peter Busser