Mark Breen
mark.breen at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 07:10:42 CDT 2004
Hello Francisco, Thanks for your reply. I was not expecting or even demanding of Linux to be proficient or for it to do everything that XP can do. I was becoming more and more curious about what this Linux thing is. Having loaded a version of it, I just came away with the impression, that it was three or four generations behind what we currently have. I have the perception that there are hundreds of tools out there, and many, many flavours of Linux, and obviously different ones are preferable to different people. My main question was however, do you guys, my peers, consider it also a few generations behind where we are with XP, Office, VB.Net, SQL 2000, ADO and IE with SP2. What I was really, really curious about was, whether there are some people that can give examples of where it beats using the more common OS's. I am not fanatical about either, and I have to say, I have been intrigued by Linux for a few years, but I was really disappointed when I first played with it last Sunday night, albeit for an hour or two only. I will look at Knoppix once I click Send :) Mark On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:09:14 -0700, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, I think you are comming off this the wrong way. I will bet > money that you were not as proficient in the Windows OS as you are now > back in 92. Linux Desktops will take some getting used to... You'll > want to observe some of the current distros out there for Desktop > Linux as opposed to Server Linux distros. > > My favorite for home users is Knoppix. It runs right off the CD and > is a breeze to set up. (install). I don't think you can just get up > and expect to begin running over night... > > > > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:02:10 +0200, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > > Hi Mark > > > > If you are looking for Linux on the desktop, Xandros may be more what > > you are after: > > > > http://www.xandros.com/ > > > > /gustav > > > > > > > > > > > I just loaded Mandrake Linux for the first time. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > -- > -Francisco > <a href="http://pcthis.blogspot.com">Pc This! pc news with out the jargon</a> > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >