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to: TOM WALKER
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2005-04-20 17:31:22
subject: Knoopix

-> WC>->  Mandrake has been touting that for soem Time. YET still
is is far form
-> WC>->  being what it should be in simplisity .One good thing
thohg I saw was
-> WC>->  that they were going ot try and slow down the endless releases.
-> WC>-> Rioghjt not it is almost impossable to keep up. I
mentioned my Mandrake
-> WC>-> 10 and you saif NO tom you should get 10.1
-> WC>-> That either mans getting a Broad Band connection for hte
internet to
-> WC>-> download the rappidly becoming HUGE .iso's or PAY for endless new
-> WC>-> releases form some commercial firm.

-> WC>-> Neither is anywhere near the reality of a GOOD operating system.

-> WC>And MickeySoft is?

-> NO, But at least it is Practical for the Masses. The NEW Apple
-> OS is FAR better and has many possabilities but the Software selection
-> is somewhat lacking.
-> Basicly the "NIX" selections lack a reat deal compaired to what the
-> Windows World offers. Open Office is an excellent example. It is a
-> Second best decidedly when compaired to Win Office Suite.
-> In fact Jean Parrot sent me a program with a MS word Doc it could not
-> Handle.

-> The new apple OS could ported over, if it already hasn't been done, to
-> the x86 CPU.
-> One would still have some lack of Software though.
-> I don't concider Software Emulation as an answer to the software
-> problem.


Nor do I.
Knoppix perfoprms flawlessly here and has for a year.
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