Re: TI-H: Re: Grant: Master of AOL (NOT!)

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: Grant: Master of AOL (NOT!)
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 20:14:40 -0800 (AKDT)
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>>>>You can learn everything that's available from the outside of a computer
>>>>through linux.
>>>
>>>
>>>Why linux? why not any form of UNIX? You can even do all those things in
>dos
>>>or windows. Linux is not god. Give it up.
>>
>>You don't get the networking power from dos or windows.  I can download
>>150MB of Redhat, SCO...and have it running on my computer fine wiht no
>>problems.  I can't say that much for Win98.  :)
>>
>>You CAN get the networking power of linux, but it has its price.  A large
>>price.  :)
>
>
>That has absolutely positively nothing to do with the subject. We're not
>talking about stability, we're talking about network information utilities.
>UNIX variants can traceroute and ping just as well as DOS can.

DOS isn't free.  I can't download DOS 6.1 and install it on my computer.  I
have 15+ choices with Unix.

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