[rescue] Linux Luserisms (was: secondary market storage?)
Linc Fessenden
linc at thelinuxlink.net
Tue Apr 2 07:45:55 CST 2002
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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