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St. Rita is the patron saint of impossible dreams. Why I hadn't known this from the git-go, is hard to imagine. Source? Google. She should be the patron saint of startups and Linux users... Comments 8:05:21 PM 
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Frustration, Linux's other name: I love the stability of Linux: I hate the utterly arbitrary (from a casual user's standpoint) way it changes from rev to rev. None of the tools I learned under Red HAt 6.x are visible in RH 7.3, for example. Red Hat's support docs, especially how-tos and FAQs, are years out of date. I guess I'm supposed to sign up for Red Hat's $2,000 training courses, but I just don't have the time. There are great resources like LinuxQuestions.org (highly recommended, BTW), but it's work to dig for the data you need. This isn't making it easy to be a Linux user. I just want to set up some routine Internet services, here. The Open Source movement means that the software just changes, arbitrarily form an end-user's standpoint, whenever the people who are developing a particular package change. I understand why, I'm all for Open Source, it just makes it hard for an end-user who has less than full time to devote to Linux.
The value proposition for, say, an Apple Xserve for $3000 begins to look good compared to my home-brew Linux box for $500, whose DNS and FTP services have yet to work properly... What is 2 weeks worth of most of my spare time worth? At least I'd be up and running now... |
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:02:47 PM
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