Is anybody else confused?

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>>>>> "City" == City Barber Shop <lynnal@cblink.com> writes:

    City> Thank You, I am glad be told about the zipping as I had not
    City> thought of that : ) And you are right it would make it
    City> sooooo much easier.  I do have WinZip so that is not a
    City> problem.  I there really any merit to having more than two
    City> or three OS's?  If you have dos , windows, linux, is there
    City> any need for OS2, Warp3 and FREEBSD?  In what areas are they
    City> used?  If I wanted to learn to do a little programming, as
    City> in troubleshhooting or customizing existing programs,
    City> (tweaking) which OS give themself to the broadest
    City> application or are they all so product specific as Windows
    City> and windows programs?  Is Java really as cross platform as
    City> proclaimed? Will it perform on a variety of OS's also?  This
    City> learning curve is very steep........  What is the best way
    City> to learn a general description / function of the various
    City> OS's available.  And what the need / demand would be for
    City> each of these , relative to business, web development,
    City> software development?  Realizing I am asking some general
    City> broad questions ....  Where does one begin?  TIA, Lynna
    City> Lunsford

The largest number of computers running the same OS probably run
MicroSoft DOS and MS-Windows 3.10; second is probably Win95.

Unix runs on more different types of computers than anything else I
can think of, and Linux runs on a lot of them too, and it is free.

If you want to learn programming, as opposed to system administration,
then I think Java is an excellent choice.  If you run Linux, then Java
support is built in, and still for free.

What is the reason to learn many human languages?  For one, you will
understand languages in general better than you ever could if you only
knew one.

If you are interested in system administration, then installing and
running Linux on your own PC is a great way to start.  Next, get a
full time internet connection and set up web and ftp servers.  If you
are really ambitious, you can get a bunch of modems and become an ISP.

I personally think system administration is a necessary evil, not a
thing to desire.  It is the computer equivalent of cleaning toilets.
I love running Unix, but I hate administering it.  I do it because
someone has to, and on my machine, I am the only one.  (This is not
entirely true.  Bro. Jerry Caesar has been webmaster here for several
years, even when he was going to school in New York state.  Bro. Tyler
Nally is working on improvements to the archives from Indianapolis.
Try that kind of long distance sysadm work with Win95!  HA!)

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