Linux Becomes Female 4591
On Saturday 27 August 2005 23:24, johnny bobby bee wrote :
I imagine it was the neat programming environment and SSH (i.e. less leg work). Honestly. That's how I became dependent on Linux and learned to love it not for being "not Windows", but for doing exactly what I needed.
The names never appeared professionals to me. Persistent use and experience taught me to dispose of the naming stereotype. It is a peril that many, not just myself, must overcome.
But maybe in a world where people too often trust trappings than something concrete, the real way to break things is to not follow into the trappings. Microsoft has dominated in part because the...
That's another issue. A one-man piece of software will have repellent characteristics to the prospective user. That's why companies try to glorify themselves, often by giving the illluion ofscale-. How often do you see a name of a person in a Mac-Windows-bundled application?
They aren't feminine names. I suppose "SuSE" might be an attempt at a play on words with the...
Indeed. And yet, back rooms will not give 'mbuttes' the right impression. Put some Linux boxes in the helpdesks, the clusters, the call centers. Get a few Linux boxes in the display window of the local computer shop.
Often the solace to most of us... those who insist and use a poor operating system hinder themsleves. Nonetheless, what will you do when your (mine actually) mother suffers from viruses, a bloted Registry and system crashes? What do you do when your son wants to buy a computer for gaming and the cost of that machine is well over $1000? Or when the IT support people implement Windows- or IE-only systems?
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