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Re: Irv Mullen & Black Hats

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Apr 05, 2002
• 442 views

Of course, for us cheapies, dual-booting and virtulization software
(such as VMWare) are other helpful/useful options as well ;)

jbrown

On  0, acran at readout.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
> 
> Ok folks before this escalates into an OS "religious war" 
> 
> Choose to use the operating system best suited for your needs.  If you have
> diverse needs (I do for example) then either make a compromise and choose
> an operating system of "best fit" or get two computers and run the two
> rival operating systems on each system.
> 
> If your needs are more more diverse get hold of a third or more computers.
> A Pentium 75 (yes 75) will run a more than fit Linux or a slowish but
> useful Win 98.
> 
> I know that two computers are not an option for many but a second user
> Pentium 100 Mhz must be going in the second hand market near you for not a
> huge amount and think of the green issues.  You stop an old computer going
> into landfill or worse.
> 
> In short use the right tool for the job.  I once read on an email list
> (possibly EUforum) that if you see every problem as a nail then you'll use
> a hammer to solve every problem you come across.
> 
> An OS is a tool - use an appropriate one (note I say appropriate and not
> "right") for the job in hand.
> 
> Better still of course is to write code with platform/OS/version
> independence in mind from the start ...
> 
> Just my 4 pence worth...
> 
> Andy Cranston.
> 
> At 18:42 05/04/02 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >Yes, X-Window isn't the best that Linux provides.
> >It's slow because of its modularity. MS Windows are still better than
> >Linux for desktops (interesting idea is AtheOS - it can run lots of Linux
> >utilites and has Windows-like API and integrated GUI www.atheos.cx)
> >But lots of 'real' Linux users never install any GUI.
> >
> >P.S. Microsoft has recently started an anti-UNIX campaign.
> >The servers for the campaign were running FreeBSD. After this 
> >was revealed, they moved the servers to Windows, and they stopped
> >working 
> >
> >    Martin
> >
> >>http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
> >>
> >>Euman
> >>euman at bellsouth.net
> >
> >