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From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:21:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <053e01c7626f$52648600$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070309171155.GJ4176@rednote.net>



Janina Sajka wrote:
> I find it hard to think of any OS that crashes daily, or even more
> frequently, as "working." I wouldn't hire that kind of worker.
>
> Janina

XP doesn't crash often, this is a characteristic of earlier versions of 
Windows.
Sure, Linux is much more stable, but XP rarely crashes.
But There is the problem of the most popular OS having the most amount of 
viruses written for it.
Glenn

>
> John Heim writes:
>> We care because often people get into linux expecting it to be like
>> Windows. Possibly, if these people are fore-warned, they will be
>> less likely to give up.  That's been my experience anyway.
>>
>> I think sometimes in their enthusiasm for linux,  linux nerds sell
>> it as being easier to use than Windows. I don't think it ever gets
>> to that point no matter how well you know linux and speakup.  And if
>> all you want out of your computer is for it to work with a minimum
>> of fuss, then maybe you had better stick to Windows.
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Keith Hinton
 ` ace
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Sean McMahon
     ` John Heim
       ` Gene Collins
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
             ` Kenny Hitt
               ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Ned Granic
               ` Re[2]: " Farhan
                 ` Kenny Hitt
         ` John Heim
           ` Gene Collins
           ` Janina Sajka
             ` Glenn Ervin [this message]
               ` Lorenzo Taylor
                 ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` Sina Bahram
                   ` Janina Sajka
                 ` Chris Norman
                   ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Alex Snow
               ` Lorenzo Taylor
                 ` Re[2]: " Farhan
                   ` ***SPAM*** " Lorenzo Taylor
                 ` Erik Heil
                   ` Lorenzo Taylor
                   ` ace
                     ` Erik Heil
                 ` Anthony Creapeau
     [not found]                   ` <1173482123.32487.30.camel@layla>
                     ` Michael Whapples
                       ` Anthony Creapeau
                 ` Doug Smith
                   ` Lorenzo Taylor
                     ` Doug Smith
                   ` Lorenzo Taylor
                     ` Doug Smith
       ` Re[2]: " Farhan
       ` jaffar
 tony seth

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