Tom Ring wrote in
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Michael Coslo wrote:


I work both Microsoft, OSX, and am learning Linux.

Not that it was asked for, but my experience has been that MS OS
is
great if you have paid support staff to make it run, Linux is nice,
but every once in a while, it kicks us back to 1985, (sorry -
unforgivable in 2006) and when I absolutely have to get it done with
a minimum of..

How so? Interested in your perspective on the 1985ish Linux issues.


My perspective is that of an OS that occasionally makes me work as if it
was 1985. More on that below.



And I have found that it takes less paid staff to support a number of
linux servers than the same number of 2K or 2K3 servers. Clicking is
much tougher to automate than simply writing scripts and adding them
to crontab.

Ahh, the perspective issue! Agreed that getting to the command line
is a more efficient method, even on an Xserve. But I have to deal
with situations where I have to get a piece of hardware, anstall and
use it and any software needed, and meet a deadline.A real short
one. With the PC, we usually find that we have hardware limitations
(always cured by spending a few K), with Linux, we can spend a lot
of time looking for drivers, installing a program is always
exciting, and usually the deadline has come and gone in either case.

I use the Mac because I work with a computer, not get a computer to
work. I'll gladly concede that the other platforms/OS's are much
superior - certainly they must be, because they require a support
staff that knows many interesting and arcane things, and I just plug
away, meeting deadlines.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -