On Sunday 23 September 2007 17:37, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 11:07, SOTL wrote:
> > Linux and the Mac OS for serious business usage are no better than Vista
> > is but for completely different reasons with neither usable on the
> > desktop.
>
> After over 20 years with Unix/BSD/Linux and having evaluated about 100
> distro's and O/S's I sometimes feel sooo in agreement with you. Sometimes
> I'm ready to return to pen and paper, after user four letter words in half
> a dozen languages.
>
> Sometimes there is something that drives you so absolutely bunkers, it's
> not funny. The good part is that I have a few computers and almost never
> run the same distro/OS on any two. It gives me a perspective and some
> interesting experiences.
>
> The thing that I always return to is that there is nothing else that I also
> feel such a strong bond with because I know whatever I run into there is
> almost always someone caring who will fix it. I know there is a future in
> my investment (of time and effort) in OpenSource. I know I won't be stuck
> in corners some of my customers got into in the MS world.
>
> If you don't use random h/w in a corporate setting and what you have is
> well supported in Linux, and in my case KDE, it is working great in most
> corporate settings that I've seen or built. More stable and faster that MS.
> (Sure Linux does have pitfalls but with enough of a background you can
> usually work around them.)
>
> People with no computer know how, who only see how well something works or
> not, walk up to me and say that after I did, whatever I did, it's been
> working swell ever since.
>
> So I would not agree that it's not ready to fit corporate needs, if you can
> go about it from a good IT background. Which is needed by any O/S if you
> are doing it right. IT is not, and I doubt ever will, be something done
> well by non IT people. ((That is not in any way addressing you SOTL))
I feel that your last statements are addressed to me because I am not IT
oriented and that is exactly the way the way I feel about it. My computer
background by modern standards is strange. I am old enough and have been
working with computers since we had individual bit cards with logic gated
made from discrete transistors and magnetic core memory and with all
programming done in assembly but when it comes to modern computer languages,
hardware, and procedures I am clue less. I opted to get degrees in other
subjects besides computers (when I was studding computers in college bit
cards were the new thing and we were in the electrical engineering
department, there was no computer department hardware or software) which has
its advantages (I am employed) and disadvantages (I am boored) but I am
making money.
Thanks
SOTL
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