Wasn't talking about you ed as you do a very good job tinkering with software.
Was referring to a conversation we all had a long time ago about linux being ready for the desktop or home computer. I'd never tried it till the last few weeks, so I gave my opinion. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 6:36 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Yet another tech test Virgil Bierschwale wrote .. > I just formatted the drive on the spare computer, removed fedora and I'm > in > the process of putting xp on it and thinking about vista on my laptop > (worried about quicken and zip forms) > > My opinion of linux. > Could be very nice, but you need to be a tinkerer and I don't want to spend > time tinkering as I want to turn the key and run with it.. > > Final analysis, back to windows for me and linux isnt ready for the average > user. The problem wasn't Linux; it was the fact that I was changing several things at once, and when it didn't work, it was hard to figure out just where the problem was. I was also using several programs that were over 3 years old, since they were still working fine, and I have better things to do than tinker with my server all the time. The reason that the regular list worked and the tech list didn't was that there are several custom programs I wrote to do the filtering magic, and they relied on several external programs, one of which changed a setting name going from the old version I was using to the new version. In Windows, the equivalent would be calling a procedure in a DLL whose parameters changed from one version to the next. -- Ed --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/mixed text/plain (text body -- kept) --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
