Why Linux Is Better (was Re: OT: Solaris question)

[Zscoundrel]

Yes, you can go back and change it, but that is after the fact.  Kind of 
like saying, you can paint your house any color you like, but you have 
to paint it white first!

admin at kclinux.net wrote:

> The last time I checked, Windows does allow you to change your drive 
> letters to whatever you want.  From the first letter available to Z.  
> WinNT, 2000, and XP, it's in the MMC.
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> Leo J Mauler wrote:
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>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:10:40 -0600 (CST) Duane Attaway
>> <dattaway at dattaway.org> writes:
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>>> Do you have a disk, partition, or directory free that is large 
>>> enough?  You can make a symbolic link of /opt somehwere in the 
>>> directory structure of a larger partition.  Or you can mount opt 
>>> into its own partition with the mount command, even using a whole 
>>> disk.  When you need space, call up your friends ln -s and mount.  
>>> They will help you move your furniture around without you breaking a 
>>> sweat.
>>>   
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>> Someone from M$ wanted to know what made Linux great.
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>> Something which M$ will never do because it would require rewriting most
>> of their filesystem, but which makes Linux great (especially relative to
>> M$ Windows) is the lack of drive letters, coupled with ln -s.
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>> My wife wants a hard drive upgrade.  I have a spare 20GB drive to put in
>> there, but she has so many things which are installed on D: that
>> installing it will be a royal pain.  This is because the first Windows
>> partition on the second hard drive is *always* given drive letter 
>> D:.  No
>> exceptions!   
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If you examine how Bill Gates funded research into solving the social issues he is concerned about 
las year, you would notice that he is 14 times more concered about the global threat of Linux than 
he is about AIDS. 

This is understandable when you consider the method of transmission.  I suspect Bill is probably 
much more likely to get Linux than he is to get AIDS!!!  After all, you can download and install 
Linux by yourself!