Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Apr 18 14:22:56 UTC 2007


Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>> You must have a different version than I do. But really, this
>>> discussion is somewhat silly.
>> 
>> Possibly, but it's been like this for 8 years...you can't compare Win98 or 
>> something with FC6, that's just ridiculous
>
> Why not?  The concepts that make make fedora and all other Linux versions 
> straightforward to install and keep running were inherited from  unix and 
> well known by the mid-80's.  Microsoft just chose to ignore them.

I believe you're forgetting the "fun" of linux in 1998 - or was your copy 
of Redhat 5 just as good as FC6?

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