Proper tool for the job (WasRe: Catholics are the one true religion?)

[Oren Beck]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:55 PM, James Sissel <jimsissel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> *Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> >With due deference to those holding a theological symposium . Perhaps we
> may spawn a
> >list "filter?" or similar to allow a proper forum for the Judeo-Christian
> canon dissertations.
> >Yet there IS a matter of what here passes for HERESY! And that being
> casually voiced by
> >oe who may not have grasped their trifling with the darkness itself.
> >I must warn of a damnable blasphemy and apostate  SIN.
> >
> >"No matter how "evil" Micro$oft is ... Linux is not the one true OS".
> >
> >Friends- THERE we see a grave risk of perdition.
> BSD anyone?  Mac OS?  VAX/VMS?  CICS?  VMS?  CP/M for some?  Hell, my old
> TI calculator had a better OS than anything Micro$oft has pumped out since
> the DOS days and DOS, for what it did, ran very well.  Don't want
> Micro$oft?  FreeDOS.
>
> We as Linux enthusiasts must not get caught in the mind trap of Luke Jr
> claiming Linux (which distribution/religion, by the way?) is the "one true
> OS".  Plus, we really need to remember that "Linux" is only the kernel.
>
> If you cannot discuss the strengths/weaknesses of more than one OS you
> cannot judge any one as "best".  And it is sad to say, evil Winblows seems
> to be best (at this moment) for a lot of the mindless masses.  To give evil
> Micro$oft one tick of credit, it does do relatively easily what a lot of
> the mindless masses want to do.  It might not be the proper tool for the job
> but it does get the job done.
>
> Each case is different and we should strive to be open minded, find and
> use the proper tool for the job.  Be that Winblows, Linux, DOS, Mac,
> whatever.  We should also strive to make Linux better and just as easy for
> the mindless masses to use so we can eliminate Micro$oft.  I've personally
> found, so far, Ubuntu 7.10 to be the best one currently to do that job.
>
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> Ah, we ARE back on the enlightened path this list was formed for! I admit
my comment re:apostate statement  was a bit of good natured redirection from
me- but actually IS that serious to others of the Open Source realm.

Yes- there are many incarnations of what is termed an "operating system" -
no caps intentional. I too agree that the caveats about  using the proper
tool and a poor craftsman blaming an incorrectly used tool apply here as in
other areas. While not risking the wrath of purists by false elevations,
there are well documented cases where Win95 delivers a de facto more
practical user experience than non MS software has. That one gets a possible
refutation at the next LUG meting I able to attend. I have a Panasonic CF-25
"Toughbook"  P166,32 mb Ram and currently something near a 2GB
drive.Thatmay become an install project for the collective mind here.
I am crafting a
detailed posting listing mission requirements for that beast to be up this
evening.


-- 
Oren Beck

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