Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-10 Thread fockface dickmeat
>The technology is there to send large files easily. Embed a URL into an >email message and most email clients will automatically launch either the FTP >client to get the file, or the browser which has FTP capabilities to get the >file. That's fine if you have a nice little linux box, wit

Re: The GNU thing

1999-04-09 Thread fockface dickmeat
> >The key thing is that GCC was responsible for creating Linux. The other >programs would have been written if they didn't already exist. Since they >DID already exist, there was no point in wasting the effort to reinvent >wheels and these other programs were SUPPOSED to be free. Now we see that >

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-04-09 Thread fockface dickmeat
>If you go to >the Third World and find 100 people who have never tasted ketchup before, >you find out two things: one is that people don't actually like tomato >ketchup, the other is that they dislike all ketchups equally. I vastly prefer catsup, it's so much better than the so-called ketchup.

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux???

1999-04-09 Thread fockface dickmeat
>If you go to >the Third World and find 100 people who have never tasted ketchup before, >you find out two things: one is that people don't actually like tomato >ketchup, the other is that they dislike all ketchups equally. I vastly prefer catsup, it's so much better than the so-called ketchup.

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1999-03-21 Thread fockface dickmeat
>From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian-Users >Subject: Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point? > >> Would such a redhat CEO consider the ideas of the Linux Developers >> as important as the marketing strategies of his new parent company? > > > To be fair, RH has

Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-18 Thread fockface dickmeat
vi works best. There are few things worse than editing WSIWYG produced html. >From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Paul Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: what's the best html wordprocessor? >Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:55:4

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-18 Thread fockface dickmeat
Could you tell me how? >From: Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: I can't believe this >Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:07:23 -0800 (PST) > >Well I have to say that setting up ppp in debian was the easyist, of all >t

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-10 Thread fockface dickmeat
> Your thinking of the personal user, which isn't Linux's >strongsuit right now. Corporate customers are looking at the >Calderas and RedHatters of the Linux distributions. Without >commercial support, they won't even bother to *look* at Debian. >Without the attention of the corporate worl