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

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Mon Apr 1 18:46:24 CST 2002


> > Didnt someone say "linux is only cost-effective if your time is free", or
> > something like that? 8-)
> 
> "Linux is only free if your time is worthless" is what I've heard.

I'd have to disagree with this.  Linux supports a lot of hardware
that *BSD and Solaris/x86 (RIP) don't.  Linux also has a lot more
hardware vendor support.

> The one I toss around (it got a lot of milage when I was interviewing
> potential PFYs at $previousOrkPlace) is:
> 
> "Linux Is Not UniX"
> 
> I take it that I'm not the only person who's interviewed someone who was
> shocked to find out that there's more to Unix manglement than clicking the
> pretty widgets in control-panel?

Who uses the control-panel?  I use the command line for managing
my systems.
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