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Theres something smooth about a Gentoo install ... 46 31 (1/15/2004 1:08:48 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Finally after a couple of weeks of intermittent work, Gentoo is up and running on my wifes GNU/Linux Desktop. I've had quite a few problems this time, just luck I guess ? First her hard disk died about 2 mont... Terry

One reason Linux is unstoppable! 8 27 (1/13/2004 11:28:32 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy From :http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1434432,00.asp However, some IT professionals like Jim Lambright, an IT manager with Roth Manufacturing Corp., in New London, Ohio, find themselves in a Catch-22 sit... Terry

Tales from the dark side of Windows (long) 61 24 (1/12/2004 1:19:43 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I've just come back from a nice dinner with a woman (and her fella) who owns a PC that runs MICROS~1 ME. Electronics guys like me get used to being chatted up by all and sundry and I know the conversation will... Terry

Note to Cola Facts 12 32 (1/10/2004 1:22:32 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy My system has you nicely scored down so you appear on the bottom of the headers, *under* everyone else. I see that you've posted at least 50 times in the last few hours, and in recognition of your underwhel... Terry

What brand of hard disk to use with Linux? 46 29 (1/2/2004 12:50:33 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I've just been through a rather time wasting exercise trying to run a floppy diskette diagnostics program made by the manufacturer of a well known brand, "Western Digital". A while back my server Western Digit... Terry

Update your windows program, get a virus! 29 17 (1/2/2004 9:06:16 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I found this post on an electronics news group today, note how MICROS~1 Windows makes the OPs life hell, but GNU/Linux is there to save the day. .... >About an hour ago (1 January 2004, around 8:30am local ... Terry

How the OS tide turns! 1 27 (1/2/2004 9:01:45 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I'm beginning to see more and more of this kind of post on the electronics news groups, once a bastion of MICROS~1 Windows. ..... NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:38:02 EST > I'm looking for what seem... Terry

More tales of Windows junk 44 18 (12/31/2003 10:43:53 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy My wife is currently visiting relatives over Xmas in Western Australia and recently tried to use her daughters MICROS~1 Windows XP box to talk to me via IRC. What could be simpler, log onto the net, connect to... Terry

Mepis Linux is excellent! 53 19 (12/29/2003 6:42:16 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I had to start rebuilding my partner machine after a HDD failure, and before installing Gentoo tried out "Mepis" http://www.mepis.org. Because her machine is a Athalon 2gig with a 10gig Hdd, it presented the p... Terry

Even Microsoft hardware sucks! 52 25 (12/27/2003 4:06:04 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Today I discovered that I indeed do have something made by Microsoft here, my house isn't totally 100% Microsoft free. I've been using this product for about 12 months, and it was so close I just didnt see it,... Terry

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Linus says Desktop Linux is 5 to 10 years away. 71 29 (1/19/2004 3:30:28 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy No surprise as it currently commands less than 1 percent of the desktop market. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8407881%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Right from your leaders mouth. READ IT AN WE... linux_stinx (11)

Unnecessary reboots/restarts 226 28 (1/19/2004 9:04:57 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Just after christmas, I bought a new computer for a very good friend of mine who used to run a deli near where I work. It's a Stratitec CPU Builders el-cheapo system that Sams Club/Walmart put out. It runs what... fantastical (2320)

Questions, Questions, Questions -- Well, really only two 13 31 (1/19/2004 4:40:10 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy This newsgroup seemed distribution non-specific so here goes: 1. Many companies who want to use linux, want it for email and web service. These systems don't need xwindows, and, in fact, as I understand it, ... cdstrand (10)

i tried running sven with wine 25 26 (1/20/2004 5:53:51 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy and it didn't work what am I doing wrong? ... Humble.Life (37)

[OT - rant] What a pile of shit! 42 17 (1/23/2004 8:44:40 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I'm truly apalled! I have a Sony Vaio laptop, and of course the video/tvout drivers are available only for windows XP (no win2000, no win98, no linux - nothing), so I have to keep a winxp partition just to wat... nospam34 (89)

COLA Stats 25 Jan 2004 117 41 (1/25/2004 12:34:57 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics ================================================= (c) Copyright 1998-2001 Peter Karlsson This report covers 2546 messages that were received at this system be... rgc (755)

Linux success at the US Post office. 38 29 (1/26/2004 8:05:25 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.nwfusion.com/techinsider/2004/0119linuxcase.html I like this quote: "The low licensing costs and the ability to develop Linux code quickly allowed Pacific Northwest to deliver a system that fit the... not4 (321)

About this newsgroup... 132 27 (1/27/2004 4:15:42 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I subsribed to this newsgroup thinking it may raise some intresting points, and give me arguments for/against Linux. Instead, I find that 90% of the conversations degenerate into flame-wars and mindless insult... Alan

Linux is great, but is it cool? 48 23 (1/15/2008 5:15:41 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy One thing that drew me to computers from the start was going to computer clubs and seeing the cool hacks that people had managed to get working using their computers. For instance, I once saw a VIC-20 with a "... plenty900 (45)

Scumbag linux advocates support "free speech" - but only their "free speech" 35 19 (7/31/2008 8:53:12 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy The standard linux mantra... everything should be free, blah-blah-blah, freedom of speach and etc. But "freedom of speech" for the hypocrite linux "advocates" only matters for them. Anyone with an opposing v... Ezekiel