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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:03, Yugo stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:
And we all know that switches break more often than software, right? Wrong!
Pressing a few buttons on a monitor sure is a lot faster and easier than having to wade through obscure menus and configuration panels to adjust your monitor.
It's also quite senseless in a multi-user set up, but then again, Windows was designed as a single-user operating system - and I use the term "operating system" loosely in this context.
Thinko... GNU-Linux doesn't *want* to make it on the desktop. GNU-Linux is a Free operating system - as in "freedom" - and doesn't have any economical ambitions. Please leave this Microsoft-induced urban legend behind you, because it is only that: an urban legend.
This is yet one other example of how the hardware manufacturers build hardware that was designed for Windows, rather than that Microsoft or any other OS vendor would produce software to work with certain hardware.
Marten Kemp I'm not sure that replacing "ordinary" servers with a mainframe is their (IBM's) real goal. IBM mainframe customers have literally...
It really is an upside-down world, and it looks like it's not going to get any better... :-
-- With kind regards,
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 00:08, Yugo stood up and spoke the following words to the...
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