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[Collins]

On Sat, 11 May 2002 09:24:42 -0700 Tony Alfrey
<tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:29 am,Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 May 2002 14:04:24 +0100 Dallam Wych
> >
> > <dallam.wyche at virgin.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:38:08AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > > Why is Caldera, which offers a free download, *bad*, while
> > > > Suse, which doesn't offer a free download, *good*?
> > > > Just wondering...
> > >
> > > SuSE offers a ftp install, for free.
> > > It is usually available about a month after release I believe.
> >
> > Neither is good or bad per se.  As I've said before, there is no
> > perfect linux distro, only various distros that are evolving
> > towards usability.
> >
> > I happen to be a gentoo biggot and a minimalist (read: not a KDE
> > or gnome user), but would I recommend that approach for a brand
> > new refugee from Windoze?  Probably not.  A new user (IMO) could
> > achieve equally good results with Caldera, RedHat, SuSE, or even
> > Mandrake or ELX  
> <snip>
> 
> I've been following this thread and, at the risk of turning it
> totally out into astroland, I would tentatively suggest that anyone
> that can get access to a new Mac running OS 10.1 (which is
> essentially free BSD) loaded up with applications, and poke around
> with it for a while.  When KDE on Linux runs like the new Macs, the
> Windoze refuge conversion problem will disappear.
> 

An excellent point.  I'm sure the flames are on the way (proprietary
offering - evil, etc., etc.), but I, for one, see no reason to exclude
Apple products from the discussion.  As for as I'm concerned linux is
unix is xxxbsd, and all are not Windows.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
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