[CALUG] Linux choices

[David A. Cafaro]

Ah yes, make a board generic statement, indirectly challenge those  
who would disagree, and claim victory because it was challenged.

Excellent point :-P

-David

On Dec 19, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Eric Bassett wrote:

> Man you guys are all so predictable.  Thanks for proving my point.
>
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> Eric
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Dixon [mailto:jason at dixongroup.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:17 PM
> To: Eric Bassett
> Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] Linux choices
>
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Eric Bassett wrote:
>
>> See, here's the problem with Linux...  this argument could go on for
>> days over which distro is the best... which one offers what, and so
>> on and so forth.  My suggested distro?  Windows, it works
>> fantastic.  Complain all you want about it, but it works 99% of the
>> time right out of the box with an immense amount of hardware
>> support.  I've built and run many Linux distros and each one has its
>> quirks that take a good amount of time to hammer out especially if
>> there are hardware gripes.  There's an old saying...  Linux is only
>> free if your time has no value.  Sorry guys, I have better things to
>> do with my time.
>
>
> Conversely, Windows is never free nor worth my time.  It shouldn't
> surprise me that someone at Tenable made this statement.  It almost
> sounds like something Marcus Ranum would say.  However, I suspect it
> has more to do with a general pattern by security experts to eat their
> own dog food ("if you can't fix it, make money trying to")
>
> P.S.  I was meeting with a couple of very smart guys yesterday.  One
> of them was talking about "using Solaris, managing Linux".  I haven't
> heard a phrase quite so accurate in quite some time.
>
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