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Re: [News] [Linux] Red Hat Emphasises That Linux Should Not Be Like Windows, Look at RHEL 5.1, 5.2

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Linux] Red Hat Emphasises That Linux Should Not Be Like Windows, Look at RHEL 5.1, 5.2
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:10:12 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <6130190.90ovhsI2aB@schestowitz.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Red Hat Shuns 'Windows Clone' Model for Global Desktop Discussion at
> PhysOrgForum 
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | While the desktop is not another "Windows clone
[...]
> Ubuntu Founder: No Emulation Software for Dell Systems
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows. Linux
> | has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those
> | strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows," he said.
> `----

I think one of the main points that people miss when stating that "Linux
is not Windows", is that why on earth would anyone *want* Linux to be
like something as dysfunctional as Windows in the first place?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

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