[rescue] Linux Luserisms (was: secondary market storage?)

[Linc Fessenden]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, George Adkins wrote:

> I have run more recent Linuxes, but I think that they still have that NQRFPT 
> aspect to them.
> Sure, you can use the latest GeeFarce MCMLXVI ti-xyz on them the day after 
> the card hits the shelves, but how about a Distro that's secure out of the 
> box for a change, or better interoperability, or ... yadda, yadda, yadda...

There is no OS that's secure out of the box unless it's so anal it doesn't
run (aka OpenBSD).

> Linux certainly had it's place in the days of Commercial unices costing 
> thousands of dollars...  
> But now that we have real unixes available for free, isn't Linux redundant?
> I mean, think where the *BSD's would be if thousands of coders weren't 
> wasting their time writing software for Linux...

Most of that software they are wasting time writing run's on BSD as well.

-Linc Fessenden

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