David Fisher wrote:
> much snipped.......
> ources - people, machines, and
> knowledge. We operate in a virtual vacuum, and this exacerbates the problems
> that we encounter.
I dont understand this statement...
You are communicating well with the most helpful bunch and knowledgeable group of
Linux people as proved by this e-mail....what partial vacuum does that leave
behind?
> For instance, the solution to our
> Linux-won't-see-the-network-card problem might be dead simple, but we just
> cannot find it. The books, the HOW-TOs, and the other static resources don't
> have the answers.
> It is much easier for us to get an NT question answered than
> it is with Linux.
>
Not in my experience.I find tech help second to non on the linux user groups,
cost effective and accurate
> If you find Linux easier to work with, then it may well be that you have
> access to a much greater knowledge base. I genuinely envy you this.
As above!Phil
>
>
> David Fisher
>
> > I have precisely the opposite experience. I teach AIS, and have students
> > installing linux and/or NT on a variety of 'mainstream ' [read Compaq,
> > Dell, Micron] and roll-your-own systems. It's my experience that linux
> > is orders of magnitude easier to deal with [and teach with] than NT or,
> > indeed, 95 [especially with the roll-your-own variety of system]. In fact
> > students routinely use the Red Hat install process to repair disk
> > partition tables that NT for some reason trashes and then refuses to
> > recognize.
> >
> > I hope you don't take this as linux' exemption from criticism,
> > but rather as just another datapoint.
> >
> > cheers
> > S.
> > ----------------------------------
> > Steven Filling
> > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: 05-Apr-98 Time: 17:49:10
> > ----------------------------------
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