[CALUG] SPAM-LOW: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Linux Friendly Laptops

[Gardner Pomper]

Hi,

This wasn't meant to be a religious issue. He wants to experiment with
Linux. This is the easiest way I have found to get it all working. I have
done virtually all my work for the past 25 years in Unix and/or Linux. I
recommend it for almost any server we come across. I fought for a year to
get a Linux cluster installed at IBM instead of their proprietary AIX
machines. So, don't go off on *cool* or not. This is about being productive.

When linux gets to the point where it is actually as easy to configure as
Windows, people will stop using windows. Until then, they vote with their
wallets.. and windows is worth the money to save the hassle of trying to
make your system boot up right.

Linux is *far* more productive for programming (which is what I do). If you
want to train as a sysadmin, then you have to beat your head against the
wall until you can make linux work, but if you want to do actual work, pick
the easy way.

- Gardner


On 3/3/06, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:42 -0500, Gardner Pomper wrote:
> > To sum up, if you want to dive into driver configuration and Myth TV and
> > linux games, stay with a native linux install. Otherwise, put Windows XP
> on
> > your laptop, install VMware and have as many different linux distros
> booted
> > as you want to.I am using it as the head node on my development cluster
> at
> > home.
>
> Using Windows is *not* cool. What is the point of running a Free system
> on top of a proprietary system?
>
> Proprietary software is a scourge. Responding to someone who asked for
> GNU/Linux friendly hardware with "use Windows and run it in VMWare" is
> not answering the question at all.
>
> The only thing you gain from using Windows and a GNU/Linux image in
> VMWare is a bunch of Windows AND GNU/Linux headaches. The problems that
> GNU/Linux has are far easier to deal with (setup is difficult, but you
> are set after that... [I haven't reinstalled Debian since potato, and
> the machine it is running on has had the hardware replaced twice]).
> --
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