Re: [SLE] Observation from reading diffrent threads... -- 6 ThingsTo Know About Linux

On 23/05/06, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyone who supported Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 during the
Windows 95/98/SE era will tell you that Windows NT often had _less_
drivers than even Linux at times!

:-))) I remember that well :-(


I wouldn't run Linux then, and you're running it for the _wrong_
reasons.

:-) is there really a wrong reason for using Linux?

I run Linux because it _easier_. Then again, I came from UNIX and not
Windows. I do training and step #1 is to "de-program" people from how
they think computers work, because it's only how Windows works.


Hmm.... I'll await the howls of protest but surely not. We are
talking about the PC here not a workstation linked to a mainframe.
The mainframe/workstation set up is different to the original PC that
came from IBM. I know that there were earlier incarnations of the
small form factor computer but for all intent and purpose the PC as we
know it came about because of IBM's offerings. IBM first used a DOS
for those PC's. Now, feel free to correct me but didn't Microsoft
either write that software or come in very soon after and started to
write the software? So, really, the Microsoft way is actually the
initial way of having an operating system. Linux, as a Unix way of
doing things came about a few years later.

Please note that nowhere have I said the Microsoft way is the correct
way :-) Just because they were first does not mean they were, or
indeed, are correct in their method of running an operating system on
the PC. I believe the *nix way is far better. I imagine IBM couldn't
afford the then available Unix on their new range of PC's because of
prohibitive costs?
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Kevan Farmer

Linux user #373362

Cheslyn Hay
Staffordshire
WS6 7HR

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