[LRflex] Re: Operating System Religious Wars (was: Leica DMR support)

Hope your knee will soon get better.
Took mine a long time to recover, but is real fine now.
Yours
Phileicangemix.



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>De: Colin Howarth <colin=40howarth.de>
>Sujet: =5BLRflex=5D Operating System Religious Wars (was: Leica DMR suppo=
rt)
>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:13:52 +0100
>A: leicareflex=40freelists.org
>
>On 27.01.2007, at 09:51, phamard=40numericable.fr wrote:
>
>> I met Stallman a couple of years ago in Nancy-France.
>> Nice chap even if I had thought he was a bit of a dreamer.
>
>He's a strange but very interesting chap. He has done many great  =

>things - but I believe he can be a bit inflexible at times :-)
>
>> And yet his dreams are becoming true - the French gov is now  =

>> imposing Open=3D
>>  Office to its administration.
>
>Various governments/organisations have tried/done this - with varying  =

>degrees of success.
>
>> When there a will, there must be a way.
>
>Where there's a will, it would be nice if there were a way.
>
>
>
>Regarding SonC's reply: I believe my original reply was perfectly  =

>reasonable and even relevant to this list. In this digitised age  =

>computers are relevant to almost everything. In digital photography  =

>the computer is part of the photographic process and the OS is an  =

>important part of the computer.
>
>All I meant to say, is that if you're not happy with Windows - try a  =

>Mac. Simple. Or, to remove the command, =22if you're not happy with  =

>Windows - you might like to try a Mac.=22
>
>Many people have, and many then wish they'd done it sooner.
>
>Of course there are valid reasons to use Windows, but many reasons  =

>not to use a Mac are not valid.
>
>Regarding Linux, I've been a Linux user since around 1992 (version  =

>0.99 patch level something or other). I have selected ethernet cards  =

>(does it have a so-and-so chip), SCSI cards (hmmm, needs the NCR so- =

>and-so driver compiled in), graphics cards (which version of the  =

>Matrox Gxxx GPU is it) and so on. I have recompiled the kernel a  =

>hundred times, compiled X11 from source in order to get sort-of  =

>support for my graphics card, and tried out fvwm, KDE (bug-compatible  =

>with Windows), and gnome (this all to get a Desktop on your screen).  =

>I have tried to get USB support with kernel modules (was that HID,  =

>OHCI or what?) but I don't remember if I ever managed to download any  =

>pictures from my digicam.
>
>OK, sorry about that :-)
>
>Linux is very useful but it doesn't have a nice consistent user  =

>interface. Once I had my Mac I found myself using Linux less and  =

>less. I haven't used it at all for a year or two and don't miss it  =

>much at all.
>
>And finally, I've been on the internet since 1986 and have witnessed  =

>(not necessarily taken part in) many flame-wars (pointless  =

>arguments). These are merely my opinions/observations on operating  =

>systems. If you think they don't belong here - just ignore them and  =

>they will very soon go away :-)
>
>colin
>
>(somewhat grumpy because my knee is full of blood (post-operative)  =

>and hurts and it's finally snowed and I can't take any pictures,  =

>except of my toes, and I can't even develop those=21)
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