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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 00:44:37 -0100
Organization: Morgana BBS - an entry point to GAIA network
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ken@psuedvax.ed.psu.edu (Kenneth J. Hoover) writes:
> Remember, NT "advanced server" was a 1.0 version operating system despite
>what MS labeled it, and it was damn good. The 3.5 version is even better.
>It's also easy enough to set up that a real person can do it... try that with
>Linux! [I know, I've run Linux]
Hey, lissen up! I've been doing system admin and network programming for quite
a lot, and the WORSE experience in my life this far has been setting up TCP/IP
to work on an NT box. True, that was the first release, but... it was really
awful to have to go thru all those damn' dialogs and other shit to set up a
MINIMUM of a network...
Compare this to the Linux installation from, say, Slackware... less than 30
seconds and you're up and running. And if you want to change something, you can
fire up vi and do the editing in less than 10 sec, and without ever touching
that fu**ing rodent!!!
Not that I totally hate GUI, tho - and in fact even OS/2 Warp was really easy
to setup. So, I can only assume NT is brain dead in (at least) this regard. And
note I was on the beta test... so I had plenty of time to figure how the sucker
worked...
Well... enough for this evening... ;-)
P.S.: did I mention how stupid is that Ctrl-Alt-Del thing?
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