Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine
Greg Haberek wrote:
>
> > I recently started using Ubuntu (gonna use Kubuntu in 6.04). I tried PC-B=
> SD and it was great, but there weren't any stable 3D acceleration drivers f=
> or my ATI Radeon 9600 on BSD yet.
>
> I like Ubuntu to a point. My friends and I have deemed it the best
> distro to just "get in and drive" so-to-speak. But for those of us who
> want to work "under the hood" - it totally sucks. Just read my post
> from last week on environment variables. There's no standard way to
> set them. You have to edit some proprietary "Environment" file, and
> even then they aren't expanded, so you can't do something like
> EUDIR=$HOME/euphoria, you'd have to do EUDIR=/home/greg/euphoria,
> which totally blows!
I was not able to set up my DSL internet connection with Ubuntu, DSL,
and Vector Linux. Frankly, I did not try very hard, but SuSE and
Mandrake, in my opinion, offer a very easy and straight forward method
of connecting to the internet.
> I'm going back to Slackware as soon as I get a new NIC in my Linux
> box. I just can't not work under the hood.
>
I have been very impressed with the slackware based Vector Linux. if
I could get it to connect to the internet, I'd probably install it and
give it a shot at being my primary boot option.
>Don Cole wrote:
>God bless Bill Gates for bringing us Windows.
From the movie "Frailty":
"May God Bless you - and keep you."
Ken Rhodes
100% MicroSoft Free
SuSE Linux 10.0
No AddWare, SpyWare, or Viruses!
Life is Good 
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