Re: Flintstone Linux.

From: Magic Nose Goblin (magicnosegob_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: 8 Dec 2003 22:27:58 -0800

"TehGhodTrole" <nospam@rainx.cjb.net> wrote in message news:<MEIvpuaHNRivDD1FE612RGbAroTPQt7D@authorizeddealerdiscounts.com>...
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kadaitcha Man
> > <nospam@rainx.cjb.net>
> > wrote
> > on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:10:11 -0800 (PST)
> > <QPl0sHfDvisw0B4324E7zjnQYSypWzyc@win.wwiinn.com>:
> >> Nate McSorley wrote:
> >>
> >>> It crawls along on an Abit Pentium 3 gigahurtz board with 2g of DDR
> >>> dual channel ram.
> >>> I am using SUSE 9.0 as if it matters at all because Redhat sucked
> >>> even more.
> >>
> >> I am using Mandrake 9.1 on a dual 2.8GHz Xeon system with 2GB of
> >> registered dual channel DDR and it runs, well, not quite like
> >> treacle on a cold day, but it is far from snappy. I put it down to
> >> linux perpetually computing uptime so the linuxfux have something to
> >> brag about.
> >>
> >
> > Why not put WinXP Professional or Server on that system
> > so that it'll zip along and do what you want, then?
> >
> > Is there a reason you need Linux on that box?
>
> I wanted to see if I could get it to work on my rig. I achieved my
> objective, but had to rip out two of my three video cards to do it. My BIOS
> is excellent. It allows me to configure disks at will, so I just chose one
> of my backup disks, nominated it in the BIOS as disk 0 and installed linux
> on it. LILO was totally unaware of the other OSes on any of the other three
> disks. Plus, it's easier for me to reboot, tell the boot manager to set disk
> 3 as disk 0 with a few keystrokes, then run linux, than it is to swivel my
> office chair and wake up the screen of one of my two servers.
>
> I used to run server 2003 but took it off once I had Apache and 602Pro
> LanSuite running. Now I run only Pro because Apaches allow me to bypass the
> major limitations in the number of simultaneous web connections allowed
> under XP Pro, and 602Pro got around the problem of Pro not having a freaking
> POP3 service. Once I had them running, I just moved them to another machine.
>
> If you're not sure where that is all headed, I'm driving to the point that
> Microsoft are greedy cunts and should be broken up, just as bell was. It's
> funny watching a lot of the linuxfux spin themselves around on that one. I

I'm a Unix/Linux person and I've been advocating that for years.

If the application writters were compelled (out of sheer greed, if anything
else), to port Office, etc. to other OSes, then the OS group would be
forced to compete on the basis of quality rather than application-lockin.

In fact, MOST of the Unix comunity believes that the computing market
would be better served if MS was broken up into three divisions
(an OS division, a commercial/productivity apps division, and a
games division).

> prefer XP as my OS of choice but certainly have no love at all for MS, their
> shithouse security, or their totally off-the-wall patch and hope approach to
> quality control.
>
> As for the linux, it will stay for a while. I'll take a look at its innards
> one day, see if I can remember how to use vi from my Unix days, maybe even
> play around with rm -rf / while logged in as root.