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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (42133)	4/14/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Respond to of 74651

Somehow I find that hard to believe. So there is nothing they can mess up by - for instance - deleting the "wrong" files through xwindows? Come on, Andy, if your using the OS, that doesn't mean you're given access to actual files! ;-) You would only be allowed to browse the web (once you replaced your Winmodem with another modem), and then only able to enjoy multimedia if you fell into the fortunate % (small I'd guess) that have the hardware supported by Linux. If I found that Corel's Linux were easier to use than Windows (and let me make the crazy request that it also be at least as easy to install), I'd be a buyer of their stock because they would have worked a relative miracle in a short period of time. FWIW, I have installed RedHat 6, gotten it to work with one of my two network cards, have a winmodem so am hosed there, it doesn't (or didn't then) support my sound card, and mounting my CDROM drive seemed like a big PIA. I'm not a Linux expert, but IMO the GUI candy coating needs to improve for at least a few more years before we'll see any kind of home user numbers. Randy

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (42133)	4/14/2000 7:46:00 PM
From: tiger-lily	Respond to of 74651

SCARED OF MARKET LOSSES BUY GOLD: GREENSPANS BOOK. gold-eagle.com What a horrid bloodbath in techs, lets pray for recovery .