Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
>
> >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
Command lines will get you out of a lot of trouble when the GUI stops
working.
Roman
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