And the internet is a series of connected tubes...
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:00 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Movement toward open digital software?
I know this is a late reply...but Linux is a OS based on a Kernel.
Linux is an umbrella term that refers to a computer operating system that
uses the Linux kernel. When a Linux operating system also uses GNU software,
it may be referred to as GNU/Linux. It is the additional GUIs, desktops and
set of like system applications and system tools, that make one distribution
different from the other.
Lets compare it to gasoline and diesel cars...you have many varieties of
both varieties. unfortunately in the common user computer OS, you have
gasoline cars and the only model is Microsoft. Linux is the diesel with many
manufacturers and models but still all diesel. Some like Volvo diesels, some
BMW some other brands...but they are all diesel.
Walt/K5YFW
-----Original Message-----
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of John Bradley
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:13 PM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Movement toward open digital software?
I rest my case: walt talks about all these different varieties of linux,
RedHat,Mandrake,SuSe, puppy linux and Debian,
all in one sentence. I take it these OS are not compatible with each other.
How the heck can u figure out what runws best with which?
John
VE5MU
I went from IBM's PCDOS to Linux in Aug of 1991 and never run and MS at
home. My XYL does have a XP Laptop but I don't use it.
I've only run two Linux distros for my main home computer...RedHat and
Mandrake. I have SuSe loaded on a second computer but may try Puppy Linux or
Debian on it depending on which runs PSKMail the easiest.
The only problems I have every had with Linux were caused by me stupidly
messing with the OS.
I run/manage over 150 XP clients at work and 6 big W2K servers. IMHO, Linux
is much simpler to manage than MS.
I have 16 years working with Linux and Unix and 8 years with MS.
MS tight rein on companies who make drivers so their hardware can run on MS
is probably the major problem with MS vs Linux.
Walt/K5YFW
-----Original Message-----
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of kd4e
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 6:35 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Movement toward open digital software?
> IMHO, this KISS (Keep it simple,stupid) principle that microsoft adhered
> to would be something for linnux to examine, in order to survive beyond
> cult status............
> my 2 cents John VE5MU
This was true several years ago but has become
increasingly un-true with every passing day.
I am not happy about tweaking anything vs using
it -- I have managed Apple, DEC, Linux, and MS
systems and MS is no easier than the others.
I use Linux every day -- it is more functional
and less of a hassle than MS versions of windows.
The only thing that stands between Linux and the
common user today is friends-of-MS who refuse to
make drivers (or driver info) available for Linux
and programmers who are inadequately competent
to make their apps cross-platform compatible.
Apple runs on their own hardware and now on PC's.
It does everything that the various versions of
windows from MS can do.
I guarantee that Puppy Linux 2.13 is light-years
easier to install and use than any version of
windows that MS has ever released. It is a fraction
of the size, is free, and includes standard office-
type apps. It is also more stable and less vulnerable
to viruses. Odd that a handful of volunteers can
write it vs the billion-dollar MS corporation -- way
late releasing Vista and will have to release hundreds
of patches in the first year to fix errors, same as
WinXP.
I just installed MS Win98SE on a PC so the children
could use some learning games too poorly written to
operate cross-platform. It took hours to find and
install the necessary drivers and I had to use
Linux to access the Internet because MS products
are too vulnerable to viruses.
A friend has WinXP and has endless problems with it.
His laptop had to be returned for service because a
virus got past the protective software and made a mess.
>From all of the reports of MS Vista it suffers the same
code-bloat as WinXP, is costly and loaded with MS
user-limitations on moving from PC to PC and with
their latest attempts to protect their weak code from
viruses, and it will still have stability and
compatibility problems.
MS won the desktop because Bill Gates was a great
salesman, not because he was a great programmer
or technologist.
--
Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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