Re: Explaining Linux

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:10:39PM -0000, Foz wrote:
> I offer two alternatives to people, one, if you don't want to learn 
> anything and you just want to just switch on and go, ignore the 
> speed of the machine, lack of security, breakdowns, etc, then 
> Windows is the answer, whereas if you want effeicency, power, 
> high security and stability then Linux is the answer. The choice is 
> theirs.

	While agreeing with you, I must say that the point that _really_
pisses me off is the fact that even if (as you mention) you only need
Word 6, and you need to buy a new computer, you won't find anything with
less than a zillion megs (that's for the gfx card, times by 1e6 to get
an idea of what you'll get on the motherboard), sound cards, modems...
While all this is very nice, and all, I wish I could just get hold of a
decent computer. I just wished that microsoft had been happy with the
640k so people wouldn't be ripped off.

	Mind you, I like this sort of brilliant soundcards for a tenner
and stuff like that, but I am on the market for a cheap PC for Word
Processing and stuff like that, and it seems that unless I decided to do
some dodgy deals with some "low life characters" :) I can only buy a P3
with specs that would leave NASA frightened...

	Regards,
	José

-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.