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Yeah, well I am no M$ lover and I run RedHat Linux in a server
configuration.....
and all I can say is that Linux and the Gnome GUI interface are really
DIFFERENT than Windows.
Keep in mind there are not a lot of great applications to run under Linux
either....
recent reviews of the MS Office counterpart called KOffice label it as
"primitive" compared to MS Office. Also, Sun's Office 6.0 is starting to
show some promise.....however, it is much S L O W E R than MS Office on the
same hardware.
Upgrading Linux versions is a total nightmare.......each upgrade between
Redhat 5.x, 6.x, and especially the latest 7.x was horrible beyond belief.
Configuration files must be restored as it overwrites existing ones by
default.
Technical support for Linux is spotty-at-best.....I discovered the
knowledgebase at Redhat.com was about one-thousandth the size of Microsoft's
KB. It was totally worthless.
Answers to tough problems can only be found word-of-mouth and thru 3rd party
user-group websites; otherwise, you must pay for support. Expect to spend a
lot of time in newsgroups as well.
Even technicians knowledgeable in Unix are not of great assistance
either.....I use one regularly, but usually end-up fixing it myself as Linux
internals are quite different from other Unix variants like Solaris, HP/UX,
etc.
For purposes of running a server, it's OK. For desktop applications, not
quite ready for prime time.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil [mailto:rhodes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:02 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: MS vs. Linux
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> Glad to see that a company is keeping an eye on the competition.
> Some companies don't and they usually don't last too long.
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> Don't hate or love either one.
> But because my time is worth a lot. I use Microsoft.
> Free is not usually free. Time is money.
> Which up untill XP, windows was always free on the computers I bought.
> Times are a changing.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Augustine" <RonAug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:13 PM
> Subject: OT: MS vs. Linux
>
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> > Some candy for the MS haters and Linux lovers...
> >
> > http://www.usatoday.com/money/tech/2002-01-04-microsoft.htm
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