>Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:54:34 +0200
>To: "PENA FAMILY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Olaf Marzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] curious ....
>
>At 21.58 29/06/01, you wrote:
>>I agree comletely, Linux is still very young and developing. My twist on the
>>"car analogy" is like this....
>>
>>Windows is the average car which the vast majority drives and get from point
>>A to point B. There are lemons depending on everything from quality and
>>price but they get the larger slice of the consumer pie.
>>
>>Macintosh is the BMW and Mercedes...etc. You pay for the high quality and
>>since everything is included your less likely to have problems again barring
>>any X factors like quality control and bad management.
>
>Ok.
>
>>Linux and other "althernative" OS, whichever term you want to use, is the
>>kit car. The old Chevy or Ford you want to tweak to run and look like you
>>want it to. You can remove the air conditioner to boost engine performance.
>>Get rid of manufacturer settings again to get that boost you want. Doing
>>whatever you want to make it run, look, and feel just the way you want and
>>to reflect your individual personality. The only problem this is a small
>>market there are problems with making those tweaks. You can problems but the
>>point is to make the changes you want.
>
>Ok
>
>>Macintosh and Windows don't and may never do that, personally they won't
>>since their user base is so much different than Linux.
>
>NO! Mac OS X, for example, is Unix-based. You won't ever have the source
>code, but you will always be able to customize it much more than any Win.
>And about win... they will change something after the process.
>
>>I do a lot of home video editing. Windows sucks for this even with
>>Windows2000. Apple is excellent for this but has a history and the
>>experience that has given it this result, but the price is ridiculous and
>>just out of my means. Personally, most of the Apple designed machines I find
>>ugly especially the Flower Power iMac which I would find humilating to be
>>seen using.....lol
>
>A Mac ocsts INITIALLY more, but a normal user will save much money with
>the assistance: 90% of the world have to pay for repairing problems. Mac
>is, in this case, the cheapest platform.
>
>>Linux has stability and is pretty much a clean slate for developing.
>
>In fact, Monday I will install MDK 8 in my PC!.
>
>>I do not hold any OS as my religion. I just can't see it as such but I like
>>the open source and I like Linux. Heck, I crash Linux 3 times more than I do
>>with Windows since I am constantly looking through and fiddling with.
>>
>>I don't trust Linux, Windows, or Mac but I do have hope for Linux compared
>>to the other two. I wonder do those who prefer command line will ever move
>>to a GUI or do they just stay in a command line enviroment within a UNIX
>>platform since thats all they want?
>
>I don't know.
>
>Olaf
