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To: rzeznikj at stout

Plan 9 is at least working to get Stallman out of their software completely. What you guys don't have is any principle, techno whores all the way. That would be fine if all you wanted to do was tinker, but nah you guys come on here and carry Stallman and Torvald's water constantly, now down to pushing Chicom systems just because they run your preferred foreign software. You should try Solaris if BSD is too hard for you, it's American, more mature, and has several advanced features now and upcoming that don't exist on Linux.


199 posted on 08/09/2006 9:21:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Techno Whores

Says the man who cries about insults

Stallman and Torvald's

There you go again, lumping together two guys who don't get a long and hardly agree on anything..

foreign software

Suse is a Novell product (American Company) with a good deal of development going on in Utah (American State)..

203 posted on 08/09/2006 9:31:20 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Golden Eagle

Er, not exactly.

Plan 9 was originally designed to be the successor to Unix. But it hasn't panned out and is now more of a testing ground for new technologies. Some use it as an OS, but it's rather incomplete and difficult to adjust even for experienced Unix specialists.

"That would be fine if all you wanted to do was tinker, but nah you guys come on here and carry Stallman and Torvald's water constantly, now down to pushing Chicom systems just because they run your preferred foreign software"

OK, fine. Now I dare you to show us three unadulterated posts where we've explicitly carried Stallman's water.

Rather, any intelligent poster or lurker can easily find that any of these threads where you don't post garbage is composed of several FReepers who enjoy using Linux and provide a small virtual LUG within the FR community.

If you like MS, why not start a pro-MS group here with your buddies?

You should try Solaris if BSD is too hard for you, it's American, more mature, and has several advanced features now and upcoming that don't exist on Linux."

I didn't say BSD was too hard for me. What I said is that it often isn't able to do my day-to-day stuff like I can do on Linux, Mac, or Windows. However, I did acknowledge that BSD is getting better and is making improvements that perhaps one day will put it on par with Linux and Mac as being a viable desktop OS.

Finally, I've tried Solaris. Still prefer Linux. Not saying Solaris is bad; just personal preference.


208 posted on 08/09/2006 10:02:41 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (II Computers 3:14))
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