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Xref: sserve comp.os.os2.advocacy:74810 comp.os.linux.misc:33609 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4921 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!winternet.com!news From: heath.chandler@norstan.com Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 13:47:31 cdt Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3fmg0f$ev7@blackice.winternet.com> References: <D2KBMv.B5t@actrix.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: esperanto.norstan.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage > > o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans > > Passionate people present real problems for the indifferent and uncaring. I'll Say, what a great saying, can I use that quote? > > o linux is difficult to install (their senior systems analyst > > apparently failed to install it) > My first go took me 9 attempts before I got it right. But I had some thing to login to after about the 3rd attempt. This senior analyst must be limited to DOs/Win.......a babe in the woods with anything else, I would guess. Yes, the arrogance is reeking up the place. This "Sr. Admin" doesn't have the room in his head to learn anything new, it is filled to the top with EGO! >I call it "active" ware. It makes you work. Challenges you. Agreed, my wife still needs the full understanding though ;-) I have spent many hours dinking around with it. It is... FUN > He then goes on to refer to linux as underware throughout the column > -- over ten times. The column is also titled something like "Linux > should be called underware". Underware what? Hanes? Fruit of the loom? > BVD? How insulting! Yes, definitely!! But I would still like the term "Underware" because I have spent many a Saturday, Sunday Monday....Morning in my "Underware" trying new kernels and tweeking my Linux System. >>The guy clearly isn't used to software as game-puzzle. He doesn't like >> software as obstacle course. His life must be free of challenge or >> learning curves. > He wants his hand held. He gets no satisfaction from figuring something > out for himself. > Linux is for people who want to *earn* the right to login as ROOT. Wow, you are on a roll!!!;-) > I like it, but I can how wimps would be put off by it. :-) > > Steve > Chandler