Fwd: Re: [newbie] curious ....
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
Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] curious ....
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 Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
