Mark C. Langston wrote: > I've run into your brand of Linux bigotry, while being up in front > of crowds, such as those at LUGs or professional conferences. You're > no better than the Windows bigots, or the Mac bigots -- your mind is > so closed, you're so wrapped up in this fantasy that you've woven for > yourself, you've become inured to any form of reason. During this exchange, I have refrained from name calling, and personally attacking you just because you hold a different viewpoint. If your social skills are really that non-existent, then it would be better for you to do as you first suggested and go elsewhere. Or maybe *I* should complain to the list admin about being personally attacked for no reason. Your personal attacks are not going to help you to assert your position. With your great success in easily installing unix, or unix clone operating systems in various x86 boxen, you're obviously an expert in the field. After this, I will be sure to send anybody your way for help with the unix drivers for all the winmodems I and many other people never been able to get to work with anything but windows. Just one small example of how hardware is optimized for a particular operating system. You can attack me all you want, if that makes you feel good and superior to the rest of us, but you'll fail to convince me that hardware/software optimization is not an issue, especially with processors. I know better. -- Chris Olson Network Administrator AST Communications, Inc. Linux Support http://linux.astcomm.net Barron, WI USA