Re: ping

Sounds like you've not installed a recent distro. For desktops Ubunto or 
Kubuntu are an excellent choice. But, as they say, the way to choose a 
computer is to decide what you need to do with it, then get the hardware 
that will support the software that you need.

I run Linux on my home laptop because I use that almost entirely for 
email, web and simple graphics and audio editing, and Vista 64 on my 
graphics & video workstation because I need to be able to run Adobe's 
Creative Suite, especially Premiere Pro and AfterEffects. If LS had been 
ported to x64 I'd run it, but since I need well more than 4GB of RAM for 
video editing, I use BlackBox For Windows on that box.

That said, I far prefer Linux to Windows on servers that I've managed. 
At the back end the stability of the Posix compliant platforms is a 
great boon to the systems administrator. In fact, the stability of Posix 
compliant engines is a boon to anyone. That's why Apple built OS X on 
top of a variant of BSD.

A friend of mine is a senior SysAdmin for American Express and their 
servers run Linux, virtualized in a pretty advanced configuration. Not 
sure I'd call that a "toy."

Jeremyhfht wrote:
> I never switched to linux because Linux is a horrible interface (gnome must
> die), doesn't follow its own design guidelines (GNOME HUMAN INTERFACE
> GUIDELINES), most of the console programs go out of their way to be
> impossible to use (undocumented features are rampant, poorly documented ones
> even moreso), the only form of help support is a forum where most of my
> common issues have no (or few) responses. Sufficed to say, Linux is an ivory
> tower of "open source" elitism that draws people in simply because "It's not
> windows". Yeah, okay, sure, it's not windows. It's worse than Windows. Linux
> is still a toy that requires you to wrestle with it to do what you want, and
> until the Linux developers grow up and start being serious I'm never going
> to use Linux as my OS. Sure, you can use Linux, but while you're busy
> customizing your compilation files I'm busy doing actual work with the
> program I _DIDN'T_ need to compile.
>
> Linux is not a productive OS. This is why I still use LiteStep and will
> forever continue to do so
-- 
Elliot Nesterman
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                            - Ancient Geek Proverb


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