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   From: SNIT@CABLE0NE.NET.INVALID   
      
   "linxlvr"  wrote in post   
   pan.2005.02.13.02.44.28.442034@netscape.net on 2/12/05 7:44 PM:   
      
   > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:10:37 -0700, Snit wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Jøhnny Fävòrítê   (it means "halo, then resonate")"    
   >> wrote in post PM0003EFF4A819464A@minion.nashville.comcast.net on 2/12/05   
   >> 6:43 PM:   
   >>   
   >>> Kier wrote:   
   >>>> Jøhnny Fävòrítê wrote:   
   >>>>> if you can stand linux, it would make an okay choice.  personally i   
   >>>>> couldn't.  way too fiddly and difficult.  every little thing   
   >>>>> required editing a config file somewhere with tortured, impossible   
   >>>>> syntax.  and all the dependency issues.  bleargh, not for me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You must have been misinformed by someone. It's by no means that hard.   
   >>>> I've very rarely had to edit a config file, and even when I have, it   
   >>>> was pretty straightforward. I'm by no means an expert in such matters.   
   >>>   
   >>> i am speaking from personal experience here, not misinformation.  linux   
   >>> is way, WAY no fun, as far as i'm concerned.   
   >>>   
   >>> i knew somebody would respond like that, and i've already had this   
   >>> conversation eighty billion times, so i am now bowing out.   
   >>   
   >> is there anyone who knows OS X and Linux well who can make an honest and   
   >> reasoned comparison of the two?   
      
   > No, but apparently there is someone well experienced with Linux,   
   > constantly monitoring the RedHat NG and probably other's, but doesn't like   
   > Linux. I'm new around here, but that sure sounds like a Troll to me.   
      
   Sort of like the anti-Mac folks who post in the Mac group... 'spose that is   
   what keeps things interesting.  :)   
      
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