From: Da Borg <vla_di_mip@uniserve.com>
To: "S. Narasimh Reddy" <snreddy@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to kill Microsoft (Re: M$ to STRIKE again...)
Date: 1997/04/17
Date: 1997-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33570AB4.74055D18@uniserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5j6egs$aof@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com
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S. Narasimh Reddy wrote:
> In <m2k9m15l7g.fsf@acm.org> Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:
> >You obviously haven't installed Linux recently. I hear that many
> >distributions are as easy or easier than Windoze.
> >
> Excuse my ignorance. What is Linux (a form of unix for PCs?). Is it
> really that well supported?
Sure. You can d-load it freely but I doubt you want to pump
over 500MB of programs through your phone line. Better
check your local CDROM/multimedia store or order directly.
Some sites to visit:
http://www.linux.org/
http://www.redhat.com/ (<- my favourite distribution)
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.linuxnow.com/
It doesn't really recognize some "Plug&Pray" crap by default
so choose hardware wisely. Runs on anything from Amigas and
386SX with 2MB of RAM to Dec Alphas, SparkStations and
PPro's. Full source code, SysV/BSD extensions, tons of
development-related software.
BTW, I also like NetBSD, check http://www.netbsd.org/. Not
as easy to use and setup but NFS is slightly faster than
Linux, also, it is most widely ported OS in existance and
free as well.
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1997-04-06 0:00 M$ to STRIKE again essoft
[not found] ` <3348FC2E.A8B@csolve.net>
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` essoft
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Catherine Rees Lay
1997-04-07 0:00 ` James Giles
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Michael Dodas
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Mark Wilden
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Bruce Rosner
1997-04-14 0:00 ` Deutscher
[not found] ` <3353A5E4.2FD4@sni.de>
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-13 0:00 ` Dave Sharp
1997-04-16 0:00 ` Avi Cohen Stuart
[not found] ` <33555E64.2556@student.csi.cuny.edu>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Best way to kill Microsoft (Re: M$ to STRIKE again...) William Frye
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Lint-like program for C++ Steve Dimig
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Uwe Baemayr
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Chris Durand
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Oliver Boehm
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-21 0:00 ` James Youngman
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Best way to kill Microsoft (Re: M$ to STRIKE again...) Corey Minyard
1997-04-18 0:00 ` S. Narasimh Reddy
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Da Borg [this message]
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Emilio Lopes
1997-04-18 0:00 ` M A
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Jose Miguel Perez
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Da Borg
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Paul Oldham
1997-04-21 0:00 ` C.Pitz
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Jay Lyerly
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Alexander Lehmann
1997-04-18 0:00 ` kwm
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Kim Robert Blix
1997-04-18 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-04-07 0:00 ` M$ to STRIKE again Steve Lionel
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