[NTLUG:Discuss] best article in a while

[terry]

Fred wrote:

>Every Linux dude (and dudette) ought to read this and "listen up". This guy is
>right on the mark with his comments:
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>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1817&e=6&u=/zd/20030902/tc_zd/58657&sid=96120751
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"Freevo and MythTV"?  If you want a Tevo. you should go by one.  (Let 
your computer be a computer and your TV be a TV.)

I agree, apt-get's pretty cool.

"altogether now, './configure; make; make install" ... yea, what's so 
hard about that?


"Some apps put the bits in /usr/local/. Others put them elsewhere. But 
there's little consistency on this point, and dammit, there needs to 
be..."  When these directories are probably already in your path, I 
really can't see what the beef is on this one.

"Linux community ..... They need each other to be successful."   I think 
I agree with this comment.

"package developers, distribution makers and driver writers --need 
to..."   I dono about you, but my hat's off to all you developers and 
driver writers, etc...
 I think they're doing a GREAT job.  Keep up the good work!  [ my 2 cents ]

"My Linux application installation should just work."  Yea, mine too, 
but then about 99 percent of 'em do anyway, so, again, I can't complain. 
 It's good... and getting better.  But maybe I'm just an incurable 
optimist.  ... Maybe so, maybe no,  all I can say is I've got a 
wonderful system here that works great, it's way more versatile and 
powerful than my MS-Windows neighbor, and if I had to fork over the cash 
it'd take to build up a MS system that has all the capabilities I have 
on my Linux box,   I'd choke like a big dog.
[ my 2 cents ]