That's a lot of words to say "I am too lazy to figure it out on my own"
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 10 May 2009 10:28 pm, Patick O'Brien wrote: > > > maybe you weren't meant for linux? I say this honestly but maybe > > linux isn't the operating system for you. > > You obviously don't know me. The company I run, and the people working > for me, manage over a hundred Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Linux > servers. I'm a Linux advocate and I'm an open source advocate and > contributor. > > I've been running Linux exclusively on the desktop since Mandriva 2005, > and non exclusively for about three years previous to that. This past > fall I bought a linux laptop. > > I know I could run a new version of Mandriva, but I thought it was time > for me to move to Ubuntu. > > My problem is that I need what I need, and I don't want to take hours to > learn something that other people have already figured out how to do. > > > I've always looked at linux > > as an OS that is fun to explore and learn new things about and fun to > > figure out how to make things work, but you keep trying to find > > things you DON'T like about it and even though people offer their > > help and suggestions, > > I look at Linux as a superior OS with a great support base. I > contribute to Linux both by supporting and contributing to Open Source > projects that run under Linux, and financially (I've paid for my > previous Mandriva support and installations, and before that, for many > Mandrake and Red Hat releases.) We're even moving into paying to > become a Red Hat Webhosting partner. (Did you know it costs more to > use Red Hat Linux for webhosting than Windows? While both are charged > to webhosting companies per processor per month, Red Hat's license is > more expensive than Microsoft Hosting edition.) > > > you find a slightest and most insignificant > > thing wrong with their help/suggestion and it seems like a big deal > > to you. > > Perhaps you think it's insignificant that the solutions offered don't > give me what I need to run my business, but I don't. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
