On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > Yea, I see what you mean but I'm a little concerned that Linux, and to > a larger extent free software, will be damaged by people taking a > "religious" attitude towards their software and not tolerating any > criticism. I'm not accusing you (or anyone) of that, but I think that > there might be presumption that us "enthusiasts" have that tendency and > hence will not be taken seriously.
Just to raise a chuckle and let you see how much ignorance is out there, this was posted by someone calling themselves, I believe, a unix sys admin, in the "dos" Onenet conference (FirstClass conf system) last September : Linux is the kiddie version of UNIX. It is a small subset of real UNIX : (AIX, HPUX,UTX,SOLARIS). It actually runs under DOS. It doesn't : support multi threaded processes, is a 16 bit OS and can be hung quite : easily. Unless you're a teen ager with dreams of being a real : programmer some day I would avoid it. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
