In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jim
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wrote
on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:18:35 GMT
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> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:12:54 +0100
>> <1325445.JesZEShxnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> ,----[ Gist ]
>>> | 1. It's FREE
>
> As in beer, as in ~dom to do with as you see fit (to a large extent), ~dom
> to choose which parts to use, if you choose to use any parts at all...
>
>>> | 2. It's Secure
>
> No argument there
>
>>> | 3. It is Open Source
>
> Yay for constant peer review!
>
>>> | 4. It is easy to install programs
>
> YaST: your One-Stop Shop for... everything!
>
>>> | 5. It has a lot of different distributions
>
> Choice is a wonderful freedom, and one of the few we have left. To further
> paraphrase Mr. Heinlein (or whoever wrote the screenplay for Starship
> Troopers): Use that freedom while you've still got it.
Oh, I'm having no argument with Roy at all here. :-) I'm more or less
poking fun at our resident Wintrolls (if any).
>
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://steeplemedia.com/blogs/ten_gadgets/default.aspx <- server implies
>>> hypocrisy
>
Ick. IIS/6.0, ASP.NET.
> ASP.NET on Linux, anyone?
I thought JBailo's site texeme.com did something there? Not that it
matters, texeme.com is down for the count. (For its part go-mono.net
is using Apache and PHP.)
>
>>
>> 1. It's supported by Microsoft.
>
> Doesn't bode well for Windows, eh?
One can hope. After all, declaring darkness a standard does nothing
at all for those times when one must find the light switch. :-)
>
>> 2. Um....that's about it.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>
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