Comments on: Linux for BBSpot http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/ Refenestration Daily. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adrian http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Adrian Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/#comment-282 What's all this hummming and hawing about? It's not like it's something of incredible importance. Just do it. Or don't do it. What’s all this hummming and hawing about? It’s not like it’s something of incredible importance. Just do it. Or don’t do it.

]]> By: Alex http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Alex Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/#comment-283 The “hummming and hawing”, as you so put it, is because I have my computer working just right for my job search. I have all of my job data (such as search logs) on my computer, including addresses and phone numbers of jobs to which I have applied. So, I wouldn’t want to lose any of that information, even if it was only temporarily for a few days (during the transition). Another issue is hard drive space — I don’t have enough for a Linux installation. And, I’m not in the position to buy a new one at the moment, either ;). The “hummming and hawing”, as you so put it, is because I have my computer working just right for my job search. I have all of my job data (such as search logs) on my computer, including addresses and phone numbers of jobs to which I have applied.

So, I wouldn’t want to lose any of that information, even if it was only temporarily for a few days (during the transition).

Another issue is hard drive space — I don’t have enough for a Linux installation. And, I’m not in the position to buy a new one at the moment, either ;).

]]> By: Josh Baugher http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Josh Baugher Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.handcoding.com/archives/2002/08/19/linux-for-bbspot/#comment-284 Hard drive space? Linux takes up *much* less than Windows. Of course, you could be talking about dual boot... Whenever I had a dual-boot setup, I found myself never booting into the "other" OS. I say go 100% one way or the other. Personally, I stopped using Linux. I got tired of Linux being so behind on multimedia stuff, for example. When your core tasks revolve around a/v stuff, IM, Email and the Web, Linux doesn't make much sense at all. Windows XP is just so darn easy. No more of this "oh boy, I have a voice recorder on my gnome desktop now--nevermind that windows had that feature 10 years ago, etc."-type enthusiasm. :-) Hard drive space? Linux takes up *much* less than Windows.

Of course, you could be talking about dual boot…

Whenever I had a dual-boot setup, I found myself never booting into the “other” OS. I say go 100% one way or the other.

Personally, I stopped using Linux. I got tired of Linux being so behind on multimedia stuff, for example. When your core tasks revolve around a/v stuff, IM, Email and the Web, Linux doesn’t make much sense at all. Windows XP is just so darn easy. No more of this “oh boy, I have a voice recorder on my gnome desktop now–nevermind that windows had that feature 10 years ago, etc.”-type enthusiasm. :-)

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