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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.ios.com!news2.ios.com!ecity2.ecity.net!user From: vanish@ecity.net (Chris Van Cleve) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.binaries.warez.mac,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.user-friendly Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS (only five?) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:37:15 -0500 Organization: Dreamscape Visionery Lines: 33 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <vanish-1704962137160001@ecity2.ecity.net> References: <Cyclone-0504961737500001@dial24.trip.net> <31664662.1081143@153.2.170.10> <dke-0604960729360001@adnline68.adnc.com> <31678d59.1170056@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4k8hkj$o0u@cloner3.netcom.com> <sonikd-0804960027040001@cmh-p062.infinet.com> <316da1c3.162268208@news.compassnet.com> <avi-1404962057240001@cyber122.cyberspc.mb.ca> <4kvtmu$map@prometheus.algonet.se> <abrazel-1604961348030001@dial25.ppp.iastate.edu> <3174D006.41C6@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.20.136.22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:34615 alt.binaries.warez.mac:3155 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45597 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:123523 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:21855 comp.os.msdos.misc:53384 comp.os.os2.advocacy:193596 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8194 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:99692 comp.sys.next.advocacy:34787 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:2723 comp.unix.advocacy:19325 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17393 comp.unix.bsd.misc:742 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3032 comp.unix.machten:2246 comp.unix.pc-clon e.16bit:664 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9220 comp.unix.shell:31680 comp.unix.solaris:66054 comp.unix.user-friendly:3599 In article <3174D006.41C6@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, Wolfram Schroers <Wolfram.Schroers@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > Christan Paul Hamann wrote: > > As with most Mac critics, you are misinformed...you can turn an SE/30 > > (386/20 equvalent) into an internet server in much less than one hour. > This term "internet server" is quite strange (many people use it, but > I never know what they are referring to). Can you please clarify > what exactly you mean by this? Is it a WWW-server, a gopher server or > a DNS or what? Yes, setting up a WWW-server, or an ftp-server is very > easy on a Macintosh, but I am not sure about name servers ... > Quick DNS Pro 1.1 makes DNS set-up for Mac quite easy, and quite speedy. [SNIP - Unix variant discussion] > | \ /\ / olfram Schroers > | \/ \/ Could somebody PLEASE tell me what is so special about Linux? (I'm not bashing here, I really want to know. I've had very little exposure to it.) I have a friend who swears by it, but he can't really tell me why. BTW - It should be obvious that a response to this should go to my e-mail. Doesn't exactly fit the topic here. :D -- Chris Van Cleve aka Amazing Vanish President, Dreamscape Visionery ------------------------------- If you don't know how something works, RTFM. If that doesn't help, make some SWAGS. If you still can't explain it, call it PFM.