Metric buttload of OS rants... again...

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
>On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>
> > Yes windows today is completely equivalent to the different OS's I've used
> > on a variety of systems since I started in the mid 70's.  The fact that
> > Micro$loth has created a bloated giant that self destructs with time is a
> > side issue.  The open source equivalent Linux is also a bloated giant.
>
>Except that it rarely (if ever) self destructs with time.

And it doesn't *have* to be a bloated giant; only the prepackaged versions 
are. If you want your own, whip out LFS and recompile it *any way you 
like.* Yes, there are still versions that can fit on a pair of floppies -- 
no HD required!

>BIG difference.

Yup.

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Speaking of whiny people whining about Closed-Source OSs and whining those 
whiny computers/OSs won't open whiny PDFs...

Who has a version of MicroWare's OS-9 68K that'll run on an Atari ST?

;-)

Laterz,
"Merch"

--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com

What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????