[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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