Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New to Linux

Robert. OS/2 is not dead. It has been bought by another company and rename.
If you had used OS/2 you would know that.

david

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Were you born as stupid as you are or did you have to work at it your whole
> life?
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/23/2011 8:55 PM, Paul wrote:
> >
> > > The only thing that matters to me is it limits my options. I haven't
> > > had to fix too much on the spot over the years but whenever I have it
> > > has always been critical and of the highest priority to me!
> > >
> >
> > 'It' limits your options... Is 'it' Linux?
> >
> > If so, are you sure that Linux is the limiting factor?
> >
> > I've run a lot of operating systems over the decades... the early UNIX
> > systems, then DOS, then Windows, before it was an operating system, when
> > it was just a presentation manager app running on DOS (v.2.1, IIRC is
> > still laying around up in my workshop somewhere), then Windows 3.11,
> > 4.0, right on up to v.7.
> >
> > Concurrently, I have been running BSD-UNIX (mostly OpenBSD currently)
> > and Linux, from its early, pre GUI days... Slackware, Red Hat, etc.,
> > currently CentOS.
> >
> > For good measure, I also ran OS/2, from its inception, to its eventual
> > demise. "What a long, strange trip it's been".
> >
> > Over all of those years, I have found that I am, more often than not,
> > the primary 'limiting factor'.
> >
> > As if by magic, the more I study and learn, the better the operating
> > systems and applications that I am working on, seem to become. :)
> >
> > > Nothing I could wait a few months for a vendor to maybe get around to
> > > addressing. Basically stuff had to be right before I got up. And so
> > > far it always has!
> > >
> >
> > Which 'it' are you referring to, here... Windows or Linux, or something
> > else?
> >
> > I have never encountered an operating system that was "right before I
> > got up". To the best of my knowledge, no such operating system (or large
> > application) has ever existed. Bugs are constantly being discovered and
> > patched, and systems, upgraded.
> >
> > See:
> >
> http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/the-life-cycle-of-a-typical-computer-program.html
> >
> > Use whichever operating system and applications that 'get the job done'
> > most efficiently, for you.
> >
> > Currently, my servers are running OpenBSD, My primary Desktop is running
> > CentOS Linux, my secondary Desktop is running Windows Vista, and my
> > Netbook is running Windows 7.
> >
> > Each installation has its own strengths and weaknesses.
> >
> > I try to use the right tool for the job at hand.
> >
> > > Plus I like transparency when it comes to computing. Maybe I don't
> > > always use it but it is comforting to know it is there.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by 'transparency', in this context, any more
> > than I was sure what you meant by 'it', in the two ambiguous contexts I
> > pointed out above.
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://www.robertwittig.com/
> > http://robertwittig.net/
> > http://robertwittig.org/
> > .
> >
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