Hi John, It is Linux, not Linus. Whether it is a much "better" OS than Windows is certainly debatable. Each operating system has pluses and minuses for each type of user and application. Making a generalization like "Linux is better than Windows" is nonsense.
http://www.linux.org 73 de Phil C On 2/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In a message dated 2/14/2006 10:44:08 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Eric Ellison wrote: > > >Guys > > > >Well since I started this, intentionally, and have read all the messages: > > > >1. I did not want it to become a 'mini-flame-war' or battle of the > >"operating Systems" > > > >2. There is NO question that the FlexRadio Windows console, will now, and > >until the end of the product life hold the product together. PERIOD! > > > >3. Everyone 'skirted' around the question without really getting to th > >PRIME reason. > > > > "Linux people, because of the nature of Linux, are for the mostpart > >brilliant loners, insofar as an OS's is concerned." > > > > > > > > This may turn out to be true for our group. But, it most certainly is > not true in the wider Linux world. > > If it was, nothing would get done and the dozens and dozens of packages > would not work on all the various levels and distributions that they are > actually observed to do. In fact, I would expect if we produced a > Linux console of any popularity, it would work, without significant > fuss, on many distributions simply as a by product of its development. > Everything else in the GNU world works that way anyhow. Did years > before there even _was_ a Linux. There'd be some dependencies, as > usual, but if your distro met the minimums, it would tend to work. > That's the norm. > > Now, whether we, this group, can pull together a proper Linux group to > get a console done or not is an open question. I earnestly hope we can. > > But, I've already cited my travails -- and I'm wondering how many share > them. > > For me, it isn't about Frank's or Larry's console half so much as it's > about the half dozen wires I'd have to move around to switch between > them to switch from "operate" to "tinker" and back again. > > As long as this is true, I submit that I (and, I suspect others > similarly equipped -- how many of us have multiple desktops, really) are > going to find Linux having limited appeal EVEN IF, by miracle, Flex > produced its own, closed source commercial version and sold it for a > nickel. Point here being, I don't think it is quite so much open source > holding things back as it may appear. People want the rig to work. I > do, at any rate. Moving on and off Linux is too hard, at least for me. > > Unless, of course, some subset of us were willing to stop operating a > while and commit to Linux only, even if it means no 3X or whatever else > we want this year. I hope such a group forms (maybe contesters could do > it?). But that is what I think it will take. That and a willingness > (which I think is practically there -- who wants to replicate Frank and > Bob's great work?) to have a common core even if there is a Frank's > console and a Larry's console down the road a piece. > > When Frank noted earlier today that the jsdr console already did what I > suggested, that's a big, important bit of news. It means your concerns > need not be showstoppers. They might be, just as a matter of > personalities and so on. But, _technically_, they need not and have not > stopped other similar open source projects from succeeeding. > > > > Larry WO0Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > > > > Can someone point me to a place where I can get more information about Linus > vs Windows. I've heard that Linus is a much better OS than Windows but my > knowledge of the pros and cons of each is limited. I would like to become > more > knowledgeable in this area. I have a powerful enough computer which should > allow me to have both systems installed, so I have been told. > > Thank you and 73, > W5GI > John P. Basilotto > > 808 Mariner > Lakeway, TX 78734 > Home/Office 512 608-6727 > Fax 512 608-6720 > Cell 512 663-6727 > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com >
