Re: I'd like to know why folks fear LINUX ?

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> Hey, I can do all of those things too, though I've worked with computers
> for
> only 28 years - 2nd one was a DEC Rainbow with a 5MB hard drive. But I'm
> registered . . . with my past employer . . . as being retired. And that
> makes my spouse happy, because since she's not retired, I'm registered
> with
> her as the chief cook & bottle washer at home. But I do think that a GUI
> interface is a lot easier to use than command line prompts, although I use
> the prompts a lot to bail my kids out. Too bad more folks aren't DOS
> literate - would save us 'old farts' a lot of time/effort salvaging their
> PC's.



Yeah, I agree, it is a lot easier and there are different ones you can use
but Gordo over there doesn't seem to understand what he's arguing about.
Linux itself, doesn't have a GUI and yes, you can add one and you an choose
which one, but the heart and soul kernel, doesn't have one.

I've got an old Stormix distro with KDE on a 486 that been running for
years. But to get to KDE I have it set to startx on the command line.
Mandrake 7 is around here on a computer somewhere. KDE shell on it as well.
Something has GNOME (the faster of the shells) on it but don't ask me where
it is and I know there is one old 486 that has no graphics shell at all on
it. It's running the heart and soul Linux. But it's still the shell thats
graphic and not the heart and soul Linux which that moron can't seem to
understand. GNOME nad KDE are NOT Linux, they are just graphic interfaces.

Didn't you just love putting in the floppies to boot to DOS then if you had
that second B:\ drive you could run something from it and leave the DOS disk
in. And to think when that 10 meg drive came out, that was all the hard
drive space we would ever need.........

You give a DOS machine to someone now and they'd reject it in a heartbeat
but I do know one guy that DOS RuLeZ!!! and Windows is a fad and won't catch
on.






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