================================================ Subject: Re: WAS - A Virus Warning - THEN - Virus != Hacker - NOW - Windows vs. Linux From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Wed 8 Aug 2001 23:24:31 -0400 ================================================ > One of the reasons that Windows is so popular among people is the click-and-choose method that it uses. Why would > someone run on a system that might actually require a bit of brains and the > need to type in commands once in a while when they can just double-click? Things are getting much easier for Linux and the graphical interfaces. Installation is fairly easy and a great majority of the computer hardware is recognized by the installation program. Also, there is ICONs galore and setting things up is about the same as setting up shortcuts to programs, backgrounds, screensavers and the like. I'm trying a beta version of a desktop called GNOME 1.4 and have to type command lines to start programs more that the straight RedHat version of GNOME 1.2. For that version, clicking ICONs is very much all that you need to do. There are all sorts of window managers that you can use. I have used sawfish, KDE, enlightenment and a few other varieties. On Linux, there is a difference between the basic graphical interface and the windows manager that you choose. When you take the plunge into Linux. You will love the system. > And besides... AOL hasn't come out with a Linux version (I'll add in a > "yet", since an AOL commercial just came on TV, and I am imagining "New AOL > 7.0 for Linux" or "AOL 6.0 for DOS"... *shudder*) so how many people does > that leave behind? There was supposed to be a version of AOL that had Linux as the platform. But you are right, it doesn't leave many people behind. Thier next installation disk might have installation programs for Apple,Windows and Linux. I read the reasons for wanting to voyage into the Linux system. All the reaons sound like rational ones. My wife is hooked on Windows also. She uses my system on occasion. But does not really want to take the time to learn it. We have seperate computers, so the less she knows, the less that she uses my computer. I do not mind the fact. Later, Jim PS - I guess my fortunes are in reruns. But Lee enjoyed this one. On this morning in August when I was 13, my mother sent us out pick tomatoes. Back in April I'd have killed for a fresh tomato, but in August they are no more rare or wonderful than rocks. So I picked up one and threw it at a crab apple tree, where it made a good *splat*, and then threw a tomato at my brother. He whipped one back at me. We ducked down by the vines,heaving tomatoes at each other. My sister, who was a good person, said, "You're going to get it." She bent over and kept on picking. What a target! She was 17, a girl with big hips, and bending over,she looked like the side of a barn. I picked up a tomato so big it sat on the ground. It looked like it had sat there a week. The underside was brown, small white worms lived in it, and it was very juicy. I stood up and took aim, and went into the windup,when my mother at the kitchen window called my name in a sharp voice. I had to decide quickly. I decided. A rotten Big Boy hitting the target is a memorable sound, like a fat man doing a belly-flop. With a whoop and a yell the tomatoee came after faster than I knew she could run, and grabbed my shirt and was about to brain me when Mother called her name in a sharp voice. And my sister, who was a good person, obeyed and let go -- and burst into tears. I guess she knew that the pleasure of obedience is pretty thin compared with the pleasure of hearing a rotten tomato hit someone in the rear end. -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days" To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp