# Why not to run Linux

"Kevin L. Kitchens" (klk@crl.com)
Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:03:08 PST

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    > Mail, news, and WWW are easier under Windows than Unix?  Um.  Which rock
    > have you been hiding under?  Tin and pine are just as easy to use as any
    > 'doze mailer/newsreader and are smaller, faster, and more efficient.

    Totally untrue...and please stop posting to the MOO-COWS lists on
    these off-sub matters.  A graphical interface is FAR MORE easier than
    cryptic keyboard commands...CTRL-WHAT????!

    > Netscape is Netscape no matter which platform you run it under.  And none
    > of these things do you any good until you've set up TCP/IP.  It took me
    > less than two minutes to set up a brand-new linux machine and connect it
    > to the LAN (and the Internet, via the LAN).  I /still/ haven't gotten Doze95
    > to do it...

    Two minutes to install and setup Linux?  I don't think so.  Setting
    up Win'95 for TCP/IP via a modem is a breeze.

    > WordPerfect 6 runs beautifully under X.  What else do you need for word-
    > processing and DTP?  And a very nice spreadsheet program comes with the
    > Slackware linux distribution.

    Word beats Wordpefect (windows) any day of the week.  You cannot beat
    WYSIWYG for any word processing.

    > There is no need to dedicate a machine to linux, anyway.  You can boot linux
    > to run a MOO just as easily as you can start one from the DOS prompt (actually,
    > judging by the messages on this list, a lot /more/ easily...).  And you
    > can still run 95% of your DOS apps under dosemu; if you really need Windows
    > apps, there's WABI, and Wine will be ready RSN.  Or you could just get the
    > Mac versions; Executor does a fine job.

    Yes...but you cannot run it while you are in a DOS session as well.
    If there WERE a DOS/Windows MOO, it would run more easily than on
    Linux (under Win'95).

    What rock have you been under?  Hardly anyone runs DOS apps
    primarily.  It is a Windows world and most of us live in it.  I
    cannot have my client call asking about his program and say "Oh,
    sorry...I am in Linux MOOing now."

    > There's no excuse for 99% of the people on this list not to be running Linux.

    IN your opinion and in your little world...but not in the real world.
    The ONLY reason most here would need/use Linux is for M*ing...And
    that pays no bills.
    Kevin L. Kitchens                                   Internet: klk@crl.com
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