Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please+a laff

2000-12-31 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Well, I've seen a lot of "because the other guy is bad" stuff. And I've seen a lot of "I want my computer more stable" stuff. But neither of those really address the reasons I've been fooling with Linux for years. And none of my reasons may be meaningful to you. The context in which I run Linux

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please

2000-12-31 Thread Abraham Mandac
At 03:03 PM 12/29/00 -0500, you wrote: Abraham Mandac wrote: When I was just about getting fed up with how Visual C++ fails to compile simple bits of code, I read somewhere that the best C compilers run under unix [and that sort of includes linux, doesn't it?]. I got LM 7.1 more than 2

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please

2000-12-30 Thread Romanator
Abraham Mandac wrote: When I was just about getting fed up with how Visual C++ fails to compile simple bits of code, I read somewhere that the best C compilers run under unix [and that sort of includes linux, doesn't it?]. I got LM 7.1 more than 2 months ago, and now I'm still learning to

RE: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please+a laff

2000-12-29 Thread David and Alicia
Of Adrian Smith Sent: 29 December 2000 16:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please well, i run linux because winblows is for sheep. if you don't understand your computer and just want to do things (and most home users