Religious wars (was "New Life!")

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> What is a LINUX machine and why is Microsoft bad?????

It's a "religious" thing.  LINUX is a Unix-like operating system which
runs on (among many other things) your standard 386/486/Pentium PC-type
hardware.  Some (not all) people who run Linux, especially zealous new
converts, typically have (IMHO) an elitist attitude toward the masses
who run consumer-oriented operating systems like (gasp!) Windows95.

Microsoft is considered bad because the computer-world is apparently
overrun with communists who hate the idea that a college drop-out is
making more money than them.

I personally don't care what O.S. people run.  I have a Silicon
Graphics machine running IRIX 5.3 or 6.2 (depending on which disk I
boot) on my desk.  Sitting next to me is a Pentium with DOS and
Win3.11.  My PC at home (when I get it replaced) will have Win95.  I
*might* put Linux on it also just for the fun of it, though I do have
some other spare operating systems laying around in their boxes doing
nothing  (SCO, Solaris, NeXT, WinNT, maybe even an old copy of UnixWare
somewhere).  I also think Bill Gates has done a pretty good job of
popularizing computers.

The H-F mailing list runs on a Sparcstation running Solaris 2.5.  The
H-F archives live on Bro Brown's machine, which runs Linux.  About the
only modern desktop-machine O.S. I don't have much experience with is
anything running on Macintosh, though I did run a computer lab
populated with Macs and Apple II's  when I was in college.

Anyway, when it comes to computers I'm a universalist -- the right tool
for the right job.

Richard M., who's eagerly awaiting the arrival of his new playtoy -- a
200 MHz, 4 CPU, 64-bit R10000 Silicon Graphics Challenge L server  :-)