[PLUG] Class and.or tutoring in Red Hat 9

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Sun Jun 15 17:50:02 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:03, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On 15 Jun 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> 
> > I'm chagrined at how my scripts are so specific to my view of the way I
> > think things _should_ be. If I ever get a job in a Linux shop, I'll have
> > to change my evil ways.
> 
>   I do believe, Ed, that you've hit on the major stumbling block of those
> who defenestrate and leave the One True Way of Redmond behind. With linux
> (and, I presume, all unices) we all can arrange everything to work as _we_
> want it to.
> 
>   Rembember when the Berlin Wall came down and the East Germans didn't know
> what to do with their freedom and choices? It's the same in Afganistan and
> Iraq. Simple things like deciding on what you want to be when you grow up,
> where you want to live, and what you like are all decisions that were made
> for folks before by the central governments. Well, the analogy with OSes
> holds.


Good analogy. I usually use the Stockholm Syndrome as my
analogy of Windows vs. Linux.



>   I'm learning the differences between Slackware and Red Hat. Can't say
> one's better than the other (well, for my needs I can), but that's why we
> have a gazillion different distributions.

As a consultant, I love Red Hat Linux. The billable hours
are great.

-- 
Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com>
ALC





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