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When ZDTV (later renamed TechTV, then G4TechTV and finally G4) first broadcasted its signal across the airwaves, I was intrigued by the ongoing enthusiasm that was expressed for a little operating system called Linux. Mention was made of the OS on The Screen Savers, Call for Help, and pretty much every other program on the network. [Very strange editorial. One try with Red Hat, circa 1998, followed by one try with Mandrake "a few years later", and then this writer dismisses GNU/Linux as not worth the effort: "I haven't installed another distribution of Linux since that time [...]"! As much as I dislike Microsoft Windows, and despise the consistently unethical behavior of Microsoft, I have at least given each version of MS Windows a chance to show me that it is not as untrustworthy and antagonistic to the user as the previous versions. In each mutation, MS Windows has become less trustworthy and more antagonistic toward the user, even as it became more filled with "features" and eye-candy. If I followed this author's model, I would be rejecting MS Windows based on experience with MS Windows 3.0 and 3.11. Likewise, I could dismiss Apple based on the shortcomings of the Apple II and Lisa, compared to a commodity PC with Kanotix or SUSE or Debian GNU/Linux today. I just don't understand the purpose of the article. -- grouch]
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