Maurice Kinal wrote to James Bradley, "a neat fortune today" on
07-06-05 06:06

 MK> Hey James!

 MK> Jul 23 22:07 05, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> it.  Personally I prefer everything out in the open.

 JB> Once bitten?

 MK> Not really.  I had no problem with FreeBSD.  However
 MK> developmently speaking there is far more going on in Linux
 MK> then in BSD or at least out in the open where one can see
 MK> and find it.  Options and availablity are more freedom
 MK> methinks.  Different rope too.  :-)

Different rope for different nooses? 

A) We could be paying $10K for a proprietary *NIX
B) We could be paying into the MS Juggernaut
C) We could lock into BSD 
D) Loosy goosy with Tux the Linux

I heard BSD has notoriously tight code, but unless you want to compute
trajectories of falling bodies, or shock some mice until they too are
falling bodies...

Now that Linux even has DVD burning software for free, the
upgrade-til-it-hurts crowd can't say, "What good is it?" 

"Can you crop your photographs? Yes... Can you print your photographs?
Yes... Can you make a Power Point presentation? WHO CARES! You can
produce Harry Bloody Potter movies on it, so go away!"

Fedora, Debian, the live cds... If you can't get one of these to do
what you want, you aint tryin', or the doc hasn't been written
yet. O-8 


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