-=> BOB BREED wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

 TW> I thin kmuch of the Hype about Linux is just Sour Grapes and as they
 TW> say "Misery Loves Company". So they hype it up and Sucker
others in to
 TW> joining giving them soemoen ot Laugh at or somethoing. I really don't
 TW> know. BUt it is really a very poorly designed Operating System for the
 TW> "Average" HOME user.

 BB> I agree. :)  I've tried Knoppix and a older version of Red Hat, both
 BB> suck big time.

Knoppix runs fine here. 

 BB> I believe that Lx has a place and that place is for those who want to
 BB> build a system around the Kernal - a tightly focused thing and you can
 BB> probably make a very lean machine that way.

 BB> But as far as 'run out of the box' thing forget it!   Mounting and
 BB> unmounting things is pain in the ass and if Windows had you doing that
 BB> the Lx dudes would be laughing their ass off.

 You can edit a file and mount anything you like on boot or point
 and click mount it in KDE as root user.

 BB> Lx is making a move in the business world, that's for sure - but again
 BB> it fits the above.  Tightly focused machines to do one thing well.

 BB> My only reason to play with it at all was to see if I could do
 BB> something for my son who runs a small plastics company.  His heart and
 BB> soul are tied to "Peachtree' as it does all his inventory, books,
 BB> mailing labels etc.  No app even close out there in Lx world.

 BB> Windows 98SE blows it away across the board.   Easy to use, tons of
 BB> apps, tons of drivers, and a few warts that you can stay away from by
 BB> using Mozilla firebird as a browser and Eudora as mail client.

I'm running precisely that in Knoppix, same release of Mozilla
as in Win 98 and Kmail is so far to me indistinguishable
from Eudora.
Mozilla however runs better in Knoppix than in my Windows installation
in the same machine on the same hard drive.

 
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