Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4557
Josh
All, I know I shouldn't respond to TROLLS, but hey, its a slow day... :-P And of course, this troll is saying things that if we do not address it will bite us in the arse.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:06:41 -0500, Paul Bramscher That's the way it works at the University my daughter attends. She uses an iBook though and hasn't had any troubles. However, I can see where...
When I was in school working on my mechanical engineering degree, my personal computer was a Texas Instruments TI-58 programmable hand...
Just out of curiosity, is English your first language? I would have thought it would have been more appropriate to say "I'm currently an University student, or ... I'm attending such and such university studying PRE-LAW...
SNIP Well Josh, glad you asked. You shouldn't.
Choose the right tool for the right job.
Of course if you were smurt enough to buy a large enough laptop or desktop, you could always dual boot your pc. That way you can have Linux to play with, and still have Windows that appears to be required.
Oh you seemed to forget about Linux's dual boot capability. (Actually LILO has been part of x86 Linux-Unix OSs for YEARS... (Now I'm showing my age.)
Why Linux? TCO. Especially in the server market.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:47:30 -0500, Paul Bramscher Things have changed a great deal in the last 10 years. When...
Josh, just to give you a free clue, I was involved in the grbutt roots attempt at getting the large 4 RDBMS manufacturers (Informix, Oracle, Sybase and IBM) to port to Linux back in the late 90's.
Your feable attempt at baiting is dangerous because you're pointing to a situation where your text book manufacturers are supplying you with clbutt material aimed at the two most prevailant OSs on Campuses today. Hence the dual boot solution. As a manufacturer, you have to weigh the costs of providing software for a specific platform against the potential revenue gains that you could hope to achieve. To many, a Linux desktop is a losing proposition. Thats a sad truth that occurs when you have a monopoly, hence the litigation against microsoft.
BTW, Gates et al, fear Linux. There's a very good reason for that. The exercise for the student... that would be you... is to try and figure out why he is afraid of Linux.. ;-)
Oh and one last note... There is most likely more Linux on your campus that you can count. You just don't see it, but its there.
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