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  3. October 2003

Re: LINUX Workstations

I will put it this way we used to have a local LUG (Linux Users Group), before OS X. They now call themselves a Unix-like users group. Most people there LOVE OS X. It is so pretty and from the little I have seen. It is a desktop (notice the distinction) OS done right. I think their server version is just as good. It takes away the difficulties of installing software that linux does (which is sometimes hard or confusing). Besides from what I hear it is the fastest platform for java as the VM is built into the core of the OS.

jt wrote:

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Klement


| Aside from that, after the install it boots right up to the graphical
| interface and asks for userid and password, just like you expect it to.


| The "expert" users like to have more control over things, like to be able
| to set things up exactly the way they want.  Those are the people who run
| things like Debian or Mandrake instead of RedHat.

So the choice is a graphical interface or *nix...  Sounds like the choice of
"the lesser of two evils"...;-)

Still, I may follow Joe's lead as the market strength of Linux /may/ make up
for at least some of it's technical deficiencies, and wonder how these
various flavors of *nix compare to OS-X?  I've heard a number of good
opinions re: OS-X, but never tried it m'self.


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