Anyone who reads Gartner's tedious drool on a regular basis won't find this very surprising. Gartner writes for IT strategists about as closed minded as you can find. If it ain't a market leader is ain't a winner, and if it ain't a winner I might get in trouble. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
We've all been giving our hard earned cash to Microsoft for years for no reason. Since they have the most money and are obviously the best at looking after it M$ can go into banking and we give them our pay packets directly and they can let us have pocket money.
As my MCSE friend says: "I'd rather not talk about that". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Get a grip and come back to the real world for a minute. Only the US uses imperial measurements across the board, and the UK should have bitten the bullet before I was born. So it's convenient - so what. It's archaic and stupid and you are coming up with reasons to support your own luddite preferences. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I don't think Caldera would be a very easy distrib. to start with as a novice. I chose SUSE for precisely the reason that I don't know much about insides of PCs - I wanted a machine I could run Apache on, program Perl, use Gimp and build websites. I did it in about 40 mins and most of that was choosing stuff to install with YAST.
There have got to be distributions for all users. Most users don't care and are happy for the set-up to autoprobe all day. Let them. Some users can recite the serial numbers of their components. Let them.
Let's not forget that Journo's will exaggerate to make a better story. If this had been written by a Linux advocate it would have taken him five minutes and then he would have benn making coffee.
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Anyone who reads Gartner's tedious drool on a regular basis won't find this very surprising. Gartner writes for IT strategists about as closed minded as you can find. If it ain't a market leader is ain't a winner, and if it ain't a winner I might get in trouble.~ ~~~~~~~~~
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We've all been giving our hard earned cash to Microsoft for years for no reason. Since they have the most money and are obviously the best at looking after it M$ can go into banking and we give them our pay packets directly and they can let us have pocket money.
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As my MCSE friend says:
"I'd rather not talk about that".
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Get a grip and come back to the real world for a minute. Only the US uses imperial measurements across the board, and the UK should have bitten the bullet before I was born. So it's convenient - so what. It's archaic and stupid and you are coming up with reasons to support your own luddite preferences.~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I don't think Caldera would be a very easy distrib. to start with as a novice. I chose SUSE for precisely the reason that I don't know much about insides of PCs - I wanted a machine I could run Apache on, program Perl, use Gimp and build websites. I did it in about 40 mins and most of that was choosing stuff to install with YAST.
There have got to be distributions for all users. Most users don't care and are happy for the set-up to autoprobe all day. Let them. Some users can recite the serial numbers of their components. Let them.
Let's not forget that Journo's will exaggerate to make a better story. If this had been written by a Linux advocate it would have taken him five minutes and then he would have benn making coffee.