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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (447138)	8/24/2003 7:38:12 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

OT: Update Installed Linux on a few stations, haven't experimented much with the remote control stuff. Linux is huge. My particular distro (Redhat 9) gives you not one or two, but THREE desktops. So, I spent nearly an hour exploring them. I think I like Gnome best. I don't really wish to install three different desktops. A bit much. Someone should really consider consolidating them. Only need one. And I won't even tell you how much they give you for application development. It's quite amazing. I thought I'd have to download and compile several things that I wanted, but nope. PHP was there already. So was MYSQL. So was PERL. There was another SQL server, a c development environment, etc... So, I've been playing around. I also set up a webserver to see how its done. Pretty simple. Turned out I had a "static IP address" ready for use. So I had the ISP point to my machine. They told me it would take two days to activate. Took only a few hours it seems to me. So the server came right up. Exhilarating. How do Open Source fokes do it? This stuff is really good quality and free. What's the catch? Gotta be a catch in there somewhere. Gotta be!