Re: Linux is FREE....Where are the users??????????????? LINUX isFREE.
Mick Murphy wrote:
> I use Linux to find and save files on failed windows hard drives !!!!!!!!
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> There is a use for everything!
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> "unknown" wrote:
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There are a lot of Linux users out there, mostly in Europe and Asia
where the user base is growing. Whole governments are tossing Vista for
Linux, and so is the public.
however, from what I have seen so far (and from the nature of its
inception), UNIX has been, and always will be, a high-maintenance,
developer's operating system. I've used windows for a long time. I've
set up, run, and used UNIX machines. I've tinkered with a mac. backing
up UNIX is a pain - so linux rescue cd's are useless for average joe.
partitioning requires quite a bit more thought than windows or a mac.
installing programs is a pain, usually requiring developer's talents:
"this program depends on these libraries..." (which you must obtain
separately and install in the correct order - if you can figure that out).
some people may disagree with me, and that's fine. this is only what
I've learned from personal experience.
I found I spent a lot more time maintaining the UNIX machine than
actually using it, and it's very easy to break or get something set up
wrong. The manuals are scattered everywhere, and you must find them
wherever they may be lurking. And not everything is documented - and
usually not all of the documentation gets installed like you requested -
it just may not be there to install! And there aer several programs for
viewing manuals, and you don't know which one for sure to use to view
the manuals (it it may just be a text file). Or if it did get
installed, the installation may be broken - manuals get broken very easily.
I have found PC's with Windows to be a lot simpler to run and maintain,
and I have run into relatively few problems. I can't really say much
about the mac, because I haven't touched one since the 630 (old) and
some very limited exposure to a newer one, but they are probably also
very simple to use and maintain.
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Jim Michaels
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"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly
tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand
it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a
telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see
that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the
brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to
hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill,
and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions
like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital
computer." - John R Searls.
