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- From: drew@ladymacb.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.215719.8888@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov3.232025.14287@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <1992Nov6.134154.7257@global.hacktic.nl> <BxEB33.372@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:57:19 GMT
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- In article <BxEB33.372@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
- >peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- >...
- >>Ok. Pretend that I'm Joe User and I go to a shop. I leave the shop with a UNIX
- >>tape. Now how do I install this tape without expertise? (s/tape/cd/g if you
- >>want). Installing UNIX is simple? Forget it!
-
- The last commercial Unix I installed from scratch, I stuck the CDROM in
- the drive,booted it, answered a few questions about what licenses I had
- and what products I wanted installed, and it told me to come back in X minutes.
-
- Under Linux, you boot one of the "easy to install" disk sets, answer a few
- questions regarding where you want it and what you want installed (ie, X,
- etc) and it just happens.
-
- >Just buy a machine with pre-installed UNIX. Or ask the shop to install it
- >for you. Is that difficult ?
-
- Most workstation vendors will ship with the OS already installed, just as
- most PC vendors ship with DOS / Windows installed.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-