[CS-FSLUG] Re: [Foss-cafe] NI: OfB.biz: I GNU It!

[Timothy R. Butler]

> doesn't do anything I don't explicitly tell it to do. And, if something
> doesn't work, it's most likely because I haven't configured the config
> file correctly. Once in a while you get a broken app that needs fixed,
> but that's not Slackware's fault. So, I now have a Linux system that I
> can *use* every day to get real things done, and I can tweak on it, if
> I *want* to.

Doesn't seem like hijacking to me. It was very interesting. Thanks, Jerry. I
need to give Slackware a spin sometime. I'd probably have found a better Linux
distro, had it not been that I had a Mac sitting around (see my latest 
article)
and my temporary usage of it as a stopgap made me a Switcher (I didn't want to
go back!).

I still have my PC's though. Right now, my one is running Mandriva 2005, the
other is running Windows XP (from which I am writing you). I've made 
myself use
XP for two whole weeks to see what it was like after a multi-year hiatus of
using Windows on my own computer. I can tell you this: I could write a very
Dantesque story about the adventure! Time to head from the Inferno back to
Paradiso, or at least Purgatorio! <g>

On the good side: if anyone on this list has some time with a decently powered
Windows PC, you *must* try Google Earth. It is truly an amazing application. I
won't try to describe it, other than to say, make sure you tilt your viewing
angle, because there is realistic 3D terrain if you aren't looking straight
down on earth.

   -Tim

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