Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Reed <> | Subject | Re: Linux (free s/w) support | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:02:32 +1000 (EST) |
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In some mail I received from Ian Quick, sie wrote > > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Darren Reed wrote: > > > I'm just not so awed with Linux to think it's the best thing since sliced > > bread as a lot of other people here seem to be. To me, it's just another > > operating system which has bugs and more useless features (to me) every day. > > Remember that Linux is for everyone and if one silly person in the > backwaters of Australia needs some sort of wierd driver or crazy feature > and he writes it, then why can't everyone have access to it. Just because > you don't use all of the features doesn't mean that they are useless. I > guess this is why we linux users can compile our own kernels, and not have > to live with factory defaults.
Oh, I'm sure everything _does_ get used (by someone!). I don't doubt that in the slightest.
btw, I've yet to come across a kernel which required me to live with "factory defaults".
Darren
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