Let's address this.
Linux is designed as a Server OS, not a Windows Clone. Do you really need to learn how to Print? O'Reilly most likely sold an extra book for that function. Not that I read them, the web based HOWTO stuff is good enough for me.
Translation: "I couldn't get it working so it sucks and I heard someone say that printing is sucky on Linux so I guess it's really hard and I'll make a snarky comment about O'Reilly books."
The only problem I have had is the old hardware I have doesn't seem to work with the modern Linux drivers. Any Linux made from 1995 - 1997 works great, but try Red hat 7.3, SuSE 8.0, or Mandrake 8.0 and I cannot even get the GUI in X-Server to work, or connect to the Network.
Translation: "Apparently, I'm too lazy to post details of what doesn't work and what I've tried. And I'm going to make vague, nebulous statements about mythical packages called "X-Server" and then toss in the fact that networking isn't working."
But, KNOPPIX boots just fine as long as I disable the SCSI probing and other silly sh*t that makes it hang on my machine. I am so p*ssed off at the other Linux vendors, that I might just copy the KNOPPIX Linux to my Hard Drive right off the freaking CD-ROM!
Translation: "Apparently, my hardware is so sucky that a distribution that works just about damn near everywhere else mysteriously doesn't boot unless I take special steps. And then I'm going to get pissed off at a bunch of vendors to whom I haven't paid a penny. Also, note the complete lack of technical detail in any statement I make about Linux."
Don't kill me guys, but my two Linux machines are being reformatted to NT 4.0 Server and Windows 2000 Server for testing some stuff at home for what I am doing at work.
Translation: "I'm going back to my Microsoft software, because that's what I know."
Heck I might even install Darwin if it behaves correctly and allows me to get into a GUI mode without a kernel panic or "missing font or screen" errors that the current XFree crap seems to be giving me. Even f*cking Cygwin works half*ssed for me, on my 98 system it ran great, came up with a GNOME GUI, etc.
Translation: "I'm going to wave another buzzword around, and then start whaling on a piece of software that works great for everyone else but I can't seem to get going. Then I'm going to go off on a tangent about an unrelated piece of software on a different operating system." [note: You have never had a GNOME desktop on Cygwin/XFree86. Trust me on this. ]
On my Windows 2000 Server system, it ran like sh*t, had the f*cking paths set, followed the whole TWIKI IIS/W2K Cookbook, and the f*cking thing still would not work! So, f*ck it, the whole hard drive gets wiped and I start over again. I got Virtual PC 4.2, and will install Linux on it and see what the f*ck happens. If it works, I may have to buy new hardware to run freaking Linux later on my other systems. I got a f*cking network of 6 Whitebox PC systems, and f*cking none of them can run Linux right except the KNOPPIX version of Linux, WTF!
Translation: "Blah blah blah blah Windows 2000 blah blah Twiki blah blah IIS blah blah Knoppix."
It's getting old, Norm.
