OpenEuphoria

RE: [OT]: Spot poll: pre-win95 and pre-pentium

• Posted by Kenneth Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> Feb 03, 2004
• 495 views

--- Philip Deets <philip1987 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > 
> Linux.org says I have to partition my drive to
> install Linux.  Also, if 
> I want a nice installer, they said it costs 30-50
> dollars.  

Regardless of what Linux.org says, I dual
booted Mandrake Linux for years without
paying for any kind of installer.  

I have paid retail price for a couple of versions
of Linux and downloaded the last 3 or four
since I obtained DSL.  I will probably buy
the next commercial release of Mandrake,
just to support Linux development.

In my opinion Linux lags behind Microsoft
as far as a lot or ritzy stuff like Yahoo, MSN,
and Excite Chat clients.  It took me a while
to figure out how to configure Linux for my Alcatel 
SpeedTouch USB modem, but once I did
I reformated my entire harddrive  and now
am totally MicroSoft free.  

I don't worry about viruses.  I don't have 
to defrag my hard drive.  The GCC compiler
is right there ready to use. The Mandrake
download version has an incredible number
of other programming languages to play
arround with - Ruby, Perl, Java, Python, etc.

I am not a skilled programmer - but much
prefer programing Euphoria under Linux.
whether I am using the  Linux console or
one of the x terminals.

Anyway, to each his own.





=====
Kenneth Rhodes
100% MicroSoft Free!