Maybe the question should be, who is Linux for? It's strange to think that Linux could be for everyone. It's not somthing that entered my mind until recently. I always thought of Linux being my own private universe, with just a few members. It pleases me; but the idea of winning (Meaning that everyone uses it) is so strange, and cool. So I ask, what is Linux for, and who is it for? It's so damn cool to be even able to ask this question.:> Linux on every desktop?
here here I kinda like RMS too, I would prefer this to be a moot point, GNU tools are almost always the best, there would be no Linux without gcc; Linux would not be as half as stable or fun to use with out FSF, but to call it GNU/Linux? Not me.
Hehe another person that probable does not admin more then one machine with more then one user, or has more time on his hands then a professional does. Jesus the point is not that it's hard making a slackware system that works, it's more time consuming, less documented, and less supported. I started with slack, now I use Debian. My systems are FAIRLY secure, more secure then if they where slack, certainly more up to date if they where slack, and less time consuming. I will tell you what; list the 10 mosted used utilitys on your system and I bet I have a newer less buggy version on my system. Then if they are older and I bet they will be; time the amount it takes to upgrade them.
hehhe a moron! Thats me, tell me somthing though, are your boxes on the net?:> Are they true multi-user systems? (I mean you have more then two users) did you read my post? what I said was I learned at first, but after it was a pain. If it take 20 minutes to find the src and compile it. and it takes me 3 minutes to down load and install it as a package. I learn nothing by compiling; why whould I take 17 minutes more? Glib is stable on my system, IT is the future, lib5 is no longer supported. Why whould I use it at all?
The Bin was imapd, I read the release about pop3 and dutifully upgraded it, but missed imapd was also susceptible, With debian I would of never missed it, much less not upgraded it.
It makes me kinda nostalgic for about three minutes, then I remeber the fools that almost rooted me because of a old bin, or the hours it took to upgrade fairly simple stuff, and the realization that the first time I upgraded a lib I learned somthing... the second time I did not... The third I resented that it took as long as it did, and I had 10 other things to do. Slackware is at best a teaching tool, at worst time consuming and insecure. It allways seemed to me the people who had lots of time where the loudest proponents.
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Maybe the question should be, who is Linux for? It's strange to think that Linux could be for everyone. It's not somthing that entered my mind until recently. I always thought of Linux being my own private universe, with just a few members. It pleases me; but the idea of winning (Meaning that everyone uses it) is so strange, and cool. :> Linux on every desktop?
So I ask, what is Linux for, and who is it for? It's so damn cool to be even able to ask this question.
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I kinda like RMS too, I would prefer this to be a moot point, GNU tools are almost always the best, there would be no Linux without gcc; Linux would not be as half as stable or fun to use with out FSF, but to call it GNU/Linux? Not me.
Hehe another person that probable does not admin more then one machine with more then one user, or has more time on his hands then a professional does. Jesus the point is not that it's hard making a slackware system that works, it's more time consuming, less documented, and less supported. I started with slack, now I use Debian. My systems are FAIRLY secure, more secure then if they where slack, certainly more up to date if they where slack, and less time consuming. I will tell you what; list the 10 mosted used utilitys on your system and I bet I have a newer less buggy version on my system. Then if they are older and I bet they will be; time the amount it takes to upgrade them.
Who said I was not using them?
hehhe a moron! Thats me, tell me somthing though, are your boxes on the net? :> Are they true multi-user systems? (I mean you have more then two users) did you read my post? what I said was I learned at first, but after it was a pain. If it take 20 minutes to find the src and compile it. and it takes me 3 minutes to down load and install it as a package. I learn nothing by compiling; why whould I take 17 minutes more? Glib is stable on my system, IT is the future, lib5 is no longer supported. Why whould I use it at all?
The Bin was imapd, I read the release about pop3 and dutifully upgraded it, but missed imapd was also susceptible, With debian I would of never missed it, much less not upgraded it.
It makes me kinda nostalgic for about three minutes, then I remeber the fools that almost rooted me because of a old bin, or the hours it took to upgrade fairly simple stuff, and the realization that the first time I upgraded a lib I learned somthing... the second time I did not... The third I resented that it took as long as it did, and I had 10 other things to do.
Slackware is at best a teaching tool, at worst time consuming and insecure. It allways seemed to me the people who had lots of time where the loudest proponents.
This is the reason I keep coming back to Slashdot.
heheh... there is no Banshee PCI cards just AGP.
Let me guess... this is a troll.
I have a 38 gig partition on netware and it take about 6 minutes.... raid 5, mylex 960 32 megs of ram.