Dude, chill. It's all a joke. I've read Slashdot posts by the same guy and it is obvious that he knows what he is talking about.
Great response, though :) On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:03:42 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lol, I titled this: "This guy is on Drugs or Works for Microsoft" > > here is what I posted, anyone correct me if anything I said was incorrect. > ============================================================================ > ===== > Hi, > > First of all, the guys name was Linus not linux. > > Second: M$ Office, Outlook and IE are Microsoft software, THEY choose not to > supply them for linux because they want people to use windows not linux. > Third: There is more then one linux app that will open and save in M$ office > file formats, anyone with half a brain can work out how to use them as its > pretty much a standard menu system. Try Star Office and Openoffice. > > Forth:, Mozilla is almost word for word standards compliant, IE is not. > (although ie6 is close) so you lied. > Fifth: You don't need a Pentium with 32MB ram to run linux, you can do it on > a 386 with 8MB of ram. and boot it from a floppy (Trinix and others)you just > need 32mb and a pentium to run Mandrake linux, since they rightly assume > that people would rather have an OS that is optimised for the system they > have, rather then one that is optimised for old hardware, you want to run > linux on a 486, get Peanut or possibly Redhat. Also, try loading win2000 or > XP on your 486. the versions of linux that were out when 95 came out, ran on > 486's just fine, and the fact that some current versions can still run on it > says alot, none of M$ recent versions will run on a 486 at all. > > Sixth: RedHat, Caldera and others are not past names for linux distro's they > are Current other distro's. People chose the one they want. which had you > read up on, you wouldn't have tried to use Mandrake on a 486. > > Seventh: Linux doesn't have virus software? thats probably because its > nearly impossible to infect a properly linux box with a virus because of > users,, you need root or admin access to do that. Windows XP home, like > win98,98,98SE and ME make everyone root, so they are affected by virus's > Also there are alot of linux virus scanners, like Trend Filescan, the thing > is that they all search for windows virus's because there are none on linux > that are a threat to anyone. > > Eighth: Linux doesn't need firewalls like Zone Alarm because the abiltiy is > built into the OS, read ipchains and iptables, and Mandrake 8.1 has two > firewalls built into it. InteractiveBastille does far more then most just by > asking you a bunch of questions from a nice GUI interface. > > Ninth: Software, Mandrake linux has server software that it would cost over > 2000AUD to achieve with Microsoft(tm) software, and you wouldn't have been > effected by Code Red or Nimda if you weren't running M$ software. it also > comes standard with 2 or more versions of spreadsheets, word processors > presentation software, finance stuff, advanced text editors, time management > software email clients, graphing software, image editing software and more, > and it all comes WITH Mandrake, you don't have to buy it seperatly. > > Tenth: Games, what to play Quake3 on linux? go ahead, you can buy it for > linux, ditto with many other titles. and with WINE, you can run a great many > actual windows titles as well. > > Please, if you are going to review a product at least get someone who knows > what they are doing to review it objectively, you don't know because you > only know the microsoft way and have a closed mind to anything else. > > Remember windows has been around in a semi decent form since 1992 or so,, > Unix, which is linux's parent has been around since the 60's... you just > didn't know about it. > > That is not the fault of linux. > > I use both linux and windows, I started with an open mind and I am tipping > more and more towards linux because it does everything I want, and I can > have the same machine running without a reboot for months just fine (I have > seen cases where it has run without reboot for well over a year.). and it > didn't cost me 500 bucks to buy. > > Be objective when you review something, just because its not what you are > used to, doesn't mean that its not better, (or conversely that its worse.) > > > Rgds > > Frank > Perth Australia. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds.
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