[rescue] OK, step one of the purge in New Jersey...
Steve Sandau
rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Nov 4 15:20:14 CST 2001
Only things I have an MS box for: Maine Public Radio only 'netcasts to
Windoze Media Player, and I only have a Windoze driver for my incredibly
cheap serial-connection digital camera. Aside from that, I need no MS
sh**. I write CD's, listen to mp3's watch avi's and mpeg's, read my mail
(including .doc and .xls files), edit photos, and so on *all* on mostly
Linux. Most of those things I also do on FeeeBSD and Solaris, and some
on HP-UX and SCO.
In short, the only reasons I use MS stuff is because someone else
*makes* me. I hate that. ;)
Derrick Daugherty wrote:
>
> It's rumored that around Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:09:52PM -0500
> Ken Hansen <n2vip at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> >
> > I am heading towards an MS-less environment (I use so little MS software as
> > it is, outside of work, that I think the effort to transition will be
> > slight...). Laptops may remain on Win98 for 802.11b networking...
>
> quick comment on this. Most all chip sets are supported under freebsd
> and linux AFAIK. I've borrowed several different cards at different
> times for various uses and applications and had no problem getting the
> kernel to use them. I've been M$ free at home and work for about 5
> years now. Never looked back :) Everyone complains they can't play
> their dvds in unix, check out `mplayer` works like a champ. I have
> _attack of the killer clowns_ in my drive right now :)
>
> ^D
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