<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM, James Sissel <<a href="mailto:jimsissel@yahoo.com">jimsissel@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><b><i>Oren Beck <<a href="mailto:orenbeck@gmail.com" target="_blank">orenbeck@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div> <div><br>>With due deference to those holding a theological symposium . Perhaps we may spawn a</div>
<div>>list "filter?" or similar to allow a proper forum for the Judeo-Christian canon dissertations.</div> <div>>Yet there IS a matter of what here passes for HERESY! And that being casually voiced by</div>
<div>>oe who may not have grasped their trifling with the darkness itself.</div> <div>>I must warn of a damnable blasphemy and apostate SIN.<br>><br>>"No matter how "evil" Micro$oft is ... Linux is not the one true OS".<br>
><br>>Friends- THERE we see a grave risk of perdition.<br></div> <div>BSD anyone? Mac OS? VAX/VMS? CICS? VMS? CP/M for some? Hell, my old TI calculator had a better OS than anything Micro$oft has pumped out since the DOS days and DOS, for what it did, ran very well. Don't want Micro$oft?
FreeDOS.</div> <div> </div> <div>We as Linux enthusiasts must not get caught in the mind trap of Luke Jr claiming Linux (which distribution/religion, by the way?) is the "one true OS". Plus, we really need to remember that "Linux" is only the kernel.</div>
<div> </div> <div>If you cannot discuss the strengths/weaknesses of more than one OS you cannot judge any one as "best". And it is sad to say, evil Winblows seems to be best (at this moment) for a lot of the mindless masses. To give evil Micro$oft one tick of credit, it does do relatively easily what a lot of the mindless masses want to do. It might not be the proper tool for the job but it does get the job done.</div>
<div> </div> <div>Each case is different and we should strive to be open minded, find and use the proper tool for the job. Be that Winblows, Linux, DOS, Mac, whatever. We should also strive to make Linux better and just as easy
for the mindless masses to use so we can eliminate Micro$oft. I've personally found, so far, Ubuntu 7.10 to be the best one currently to do that job.</div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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<br></blockquote></div>Ah, we ARE back on the enlightened path this list was formed for! I
admit my comment re:apostate statement was a bit of good natured
redirection from me- but actually IS that serious to others of the Open
Source realm.<br>
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Yes- there are many incarnations of what is termed an "operating
system" - no caps intentional. I too agree that the caveats about
using the proper tool and a poor craftsman blaming an incorrectly used
tool apply here as in other areas. While not risking the wrath of
purists by false elevations, there are well documented cases where
Win95 delivers a de facto more practical user experience than non MS
software has. That one gets a possible refutation at the next LUG
meting I able to attend. I have a Panasonic CF-25 "Toughbook" P166,32
mb Ram and currently something near a 2GB drive.That may become an
install project for the collective mind here. I am crafting a detailed
posting listing mission requirements for that beast to be up this
evening.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br><br>816.729.3645