Subj : a neat fortune today To : Maurice Kinal From : James Bradley Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 08:31 am Maurice Kinal wrote to James Bradley, "a neat fortune today" on 07-06-05 06:06 MK> Hey James! MK> Jul 23 22:07 05, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal: MK>> it. Personally I prefer everything out in the open. JB> Once bitten? MK> Not really. I had no problem with FreeBSD. However MK> developmently speaking there is far more going on in Linux MK> then in BSD or at least out in the open where one can see MK> and find it. Options and availablity are more freedom MK> methinks. Different rope too. :-) Different rope for different nooses? A) We could be paying $10K for a proprietary *NIX B) We could be paying into the MS Juggernaut C) We could lock into BSD D) Loosy goosy with Tux the Linux I heard BSD has notoriously tight code, but unless you want to compute trajectories of falling bodies, or shock some mice until they too are falling bodies... Now that Linux even has DVD burning software for free, the upgrade-til-it-hurts crowd can't say, "What good is it?" "Can you crop your photographs? Yes... Can you print your photographs? Yes... Can you make a Power Point presentation? WHO CARES! You can produce Harry Bloody Potter movies on it, so go away!" Fedora, Debian, the live cds... If you can't get one of these to do what you want, you aint tryin', or the doc hasn't been written yet. O-8 .... "And Dalton... Keep your stick on the ice." -Green, Red ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.46 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: -=-= Calgary Organization CDN (403) 242-3221 (1:134/77) .