RE: FN-FORUM: Microcock / Linux / Ramblings of a fat man

date posted 20th August 2003 20:59

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Matt Edwards wrote:

> > there's=20
> > lots I can do under Linux that simply isn't possible under=20
> > Windows (at least, without buying lots of expensive software=20
> > - probably 50-100K+).
>
> Such as?

FireWall-1, Microsoft's complete development toolchain, at least one RDBMS
for starters.

Admittedly, I could just run a bunch of Win32 ports of the existing Free
tools I'm used to on top of XP, but that seems a bit too much like hard work
(like installing Linux and using it to run Quicken, MS Office and a bunch of
games under WINE :-)

> I'm just dabbling with Linux after being a strictly MS man since putting
> my Amiga away.

I'm an ex-Amiga refugee too. I was using Solaris and various other UNIXes in
the last three years, so Linux was a natural progression for me (and cheaper
than SCO, Solaris x86, or adding an MMU to my Amiga so it could run NetBSD).

The only time that I felt that Microsoft's products were better than other
products I'd already used, was back around 1990 when I saw QuickBASIC 4.5
having only used various 8-bit home computers previously! ;-)

There's a lot of the same vigor in the Linux community as there was in the
Amiga community until 1994 or so. And, unlike the Amiga where piracy had a
large hand in the platform's demise, most Linux software is Free anyway, so
there's no need to pirate.

> Matt

Best Regards,
Alex.
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