[rescue] Linux

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, November 28, 2002 at 14:39:06 (-0500), Chris Hedemark wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Linux
>
> On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 09:54 AM, Carl R. Friend wrote:
> >
> >    Why in the world do people insist on loading the latest
> > version of L*x or *BSD on hardware that has its own perfectly
> > good OS?  It's like folks who want to get *BSD running on
> > PDP-10 iron.  WHY?????!
> 
> 1) It works.
> 2) It is open.
> 3) It abstracts the hardware.  I can run the same OS on almost any iron.

And of course the biggest reason of all:

  0) sometimes the OEM's OS just plain sucks

0.25 :-)

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