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To: antiRepublicrat

You said libraries should use your commie clone of Unix (linux) because it was free, instead of bonafide Unix which is also free. You obviously were just continuing your agenda to push that leftist software on us.


84 posted on 04/11/2006 11:10:33 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
You said libraries should use your commie clone of Unix (linux) because it was free, instead of bonafide Unix which is also free.

Again, this is why I didn't want to give you examples. You are incapable of comprehending.

You are incorrect. I said in that vague hypothetical case of setting up a library I'd use Linux. Free (gratis) isn't the only reason. For one, Solaris is geared to a server environment, while Linux is available in versions geared for the desktop. There's also a huge number of user-type programs available already compiled for Linux, and not so many for Solaris (for example, Mozilla doesn't have regular official builds for Firefox on Solaris, and IMHO that's the best browser available, and a browser would be important for these public computers). In this general, vague case I'm more likely to find what I want for Linux. Plus Linux is generally better at running on older hardware than Solaris 10, so I could save a library money by scrounging boxes.

Before you go off again, remember these are generalizations. It would take a specific case with many criteria before I could make a real choice for that one specific case, but in general Linux looks like it would be the winner in most cases like this.

Again, withdraw your misrepresentations and lies.

96 posted on 04/11/2006 11:32:29 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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