Re: Leaving Techwhirlers

[Allen Schaaf <soundbyte -at- sound-by-design -dot- com>]

At 06:28 AM 9/27/03, Stephen Arrants wrote:

>"Peter" <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net> writes:
> And what about the costs the hours unsuccessfully spent in 
trying to get
> RH 9.0 to work on a Toshiba laptop. Rh refuses to see the 
PCMCIA slot,
> soundcard and Ethernet outputs. Linux still has a long way to 
go until
> it becomes usable.

Try Lycoris or Lindows.

RedHat is a server distro, not a workstation or laptop distro.

>I'm no big fan of the Linux Koolaid--the applications I need 
to use won't work with Linux--but I do have one machine at home 
running RedHat.  Linux seems to be at about the same spot 
Windows-386 was.  If you're as old as I am, you can remember 
disks upon disks upon disks of nothing but printer drivers, 
display drivers, etc.  "Does it work with Windows-386?" was once 
a more important question than "Does it have all the features I 
want?"<

And if you are as old as I am you wonder if it will work with 
DOS or CPM.

>Linux, for many people, *is* usable. Support for devices is 
getting better. I think Linux has three perceptions to overcome 
before it is seen universally as a Windows alternative:
1. Does it support for 99% of devices out there?
2. Are there Linux applications that produce files that can be 
easily shared with Windows applications?
3. Will I be able to use Linux without esoteric commands? (I.e., 
Will it be as 'easy' to use as Windows?)
People perceive Linux as a difficult, geeky way to use a 
computer. It really is getting better, though.

I've been a Intel/DOS/Windows person since I gave up CPM and 
TRDOS, but my next machine will be a Mac with OSX.? because with 
the FreeBSD core, I can run Linux and BSD bins.

This may mean leaving FM on a Windoze box on the KVM but it will 
no longer be my main machine.

FWIW, I have a 2K, 2 98SE's, a RedHat, a Slackware and a FreeBSD 
bank of machines. I'm adding a dedicated server that is probably 
going to be a Linux distro. And to top it off, I'm in the market 
for a used G4 to play with to see how the UI is.

Allen Schaaf
Information Engineering
http://techwriter.doctordoc.info/

"There's more to life than increasing its speed."
  -- Mahatma Gandhi 


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