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From: Da Borg <vla_di_mip@uniserve.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to kill Microsoft (Re: M$ to STRIKE again...)
Date: 1997/04/17
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 <m2k9m15l7g.fsf@acm.org> <5j6egs$aof@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>
To: "S. Narasimh Reddy" <snreddy@ix.netcom.com>
Organization: Linux ACME Laboratories Inc.
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 comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.pascal.misc
Date: 1997-04-17T00:00:00+00:00
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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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