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Steve W.
swilliams268 at frontier.com
Mon Jul 24 20:10:05 PDT 2017
Spencer Yost wrote:
> Having been a c/c++ developer on dozen flavors of unix for decades,
> I can tell you Linux is a superior operating system by far(except
> for Digital's openVMS but considering that hasn't been available for
> 15 years I concede it it no longer a contender). Hell, Apple IOS is
> a variant of BSD(Berkeley Software Distribution. I can't believe
> Dave recommends anything from Berkeley!). It's reliable, easy to
> use, very secure and free from most of the pesky viruses, free to use
> and resource frugal so you would think everyone would use it. But
> being open sourced and not branded or backed by a corporation the
> non-IT public is unaware and/or lack confidence to use it.
>
> I challenge everyone to install it on their old machine whenever they
> upgrade. Use their new windows machine to handle day to day stuff
> and use their old Machine to learn Linux. You will thank me. I
> currently recommend Ubuntu.
>
> At the very least get a Mac. Windows is a necessary evil in the
> corporate world but the average home user does not have to put up
> with Microsoft.
>
> Spencer Yost
>
Wal~Mart runs the big distribution centers on Unix. They have been
playing with switching them over to some flavor of Linux and discovered
a LOT of problems. The one my wife works at just wiped Linux off the
system because it just didn't work.
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Steve W.
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