Re: Linux Becomes Female?

From: johnny bobby bee (useraddshine_eh_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 08/28/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:05:42 GMT

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> I imagine it was the neat programming environment and SSH (i.e. less leg
> work). Honestly. That's how I became dependent on Linux and learned to love
> it not for being "not Windows", but for doing exactly what I needed.

Perfect, does what you need. Naming conventions are irrelevant.

> The names never appeared professionals to me. Persistent use and experience
> taught me to dispose of the naming stereotype. It is a peril that many, not
> just myself, must overcome.

This is something you really do need to get over.

> That's another issue. A one-man piece of software will have repellent
> characteristics to the prospective user. That's why companies try to
> glorify themselves, often by giving the illluion of /scale/. How often do
> you see a name of a person in a Mac/Windows-bundled application?

I find it repellent that I have no idea what i'm using with the closed
and proprietary nature of most Mac and all Windows apps.

> Often the solace to most of us... those who insist and use a poor operating
> system hinder themsleves. Nonetheless, what will you do when your (mine
> actually) mother suffers from viruses, a bloted Registry and system
> crashes? What do you do when your son wants to buy a computer for gaming
> and the cost of that machine is well over $1000? Or when the IT support
> people implement Windows- or IE-only systems?

My mom uses Linux. My brother uses Linux. I've got my family and some
close friends using Linux. I don't have a son, but he'll use Linux. And
maybe dual-boot for those games that all the kids just must have these
days. There are always ways around the Windows-IE only systems requirements. 

-- 
Let's not complicate our relationship
by trying to communicate with each other.

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