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    		• Andyland has been running the Linux OS on Web servers since 1995, and on its workstations for about as long. Currently, the same machine is used for programming, production, and Web serving. It hardly ever needs to be rebooted and it never crashes. Since 2003 the Gentoo distribution has been used, and the artist endorses this distribution wholeheartedly.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Linux is good.
This server is running Linux.  
I use Linux to make net art.  
By contrast, Microsoft is bad.  
Their software is silly, slow,
and restrictive.  I couldn't 
make my art with their software,  
because I would soon go mad.
Enough said.

    
There are plenty of links for
finding out about Linux.  If
you can't find that information,
Linux is probably not a good
system for you, because it's not
beginner-simple....yet.

    

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Letter to the Editors of U.S. News and World Report
    
Nov 16, 1998

    
To the Editor:

    
Most of what your article
"Microsoft's pesky rival," had
to say about Linux was true --
it is more stable than Windows systems,
and it is believed by many (including myself)
to be the "future" of operating systems.
However, I take issue with two points.  One was
that "the [Linux] interface is a poor substitute
for Windows."  Actually, the Windows interface
lacks basic functionality that Linux has, such
as a convenient mechanism for searching the
contents of the system's files for key words.
Moreover, with regard to the graphical user interface,
there are recent developments for the Linux
system which contradict your assertion.
I am currently using a seamless and easily
configurable desktop manager provided on
the Red Hat Linux installation CD-ROM.
Secondly, your characterization of some Linux
advocates as "rabid" in their hatred of
Microsoft begs the question: "Who's rabid?"
Is it the company whose name has become
synonymous with industrial coercion, or
is it the individual developer who believes
passionately that there is a better way to
produce software that gives people more than
the illusion of choice?

    
Andy C. Deck
    
Lecturer
    
Information Technologies    

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