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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4955 comp.os.linux.misc:33691 comp.os.os2.advocacy:74965 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 21 Jan 1995 17:30:35 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3frgbr$pk0@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fif9g$gsi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au biwillia@crh0099.urh.uiuc.edu (Benjamin I. Williams) writes: >Mr. Ed (ed.duomo@lambada.oit.unc.edu) wrote: >: In the columns section of the Jan 16 Infoworld, there is a column >: highly insulting to linux. In it the writer basically says the >: following: [...snip...] >: o linux users are as neurotic as Amiga fans > Oh...Am I? :-) I consider myself pretty mild. Basically, all >I have to say to that is, the Linux guru can defend his operating system >pretty well, and doesn't have to make up facts like Amiga Users. I mean, >realisticly, I don't come storming into the newsgroup and claim that linux >on a 486 is 20 times as fast as 10 MP sparc's (I know some Amiga users >who would attempt this :) The author was probably referring to the fact that Linux users tend to rush to the defence of any Linux criticism in such a way that it appears as neurotic as the way Amiga fans reacted when someone criticised an Amiga. This neurosis seems to stem from the concept which some Linux users have where any criticism of Linux is a direct attack on themselves. The followups by Linux users on the topic of this Infoworld article so far seems to collaborate the author's statement, rather than disprove it. *shrug* Eh! Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |