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Faust:

quote:all MS stuff no longer works
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It works now?   :eek:  

BTW re: the "unstable/too many cooks" argument.  With linux if the cooks are uncoordinated, yes they will cook up a crappy product.  Lets assume a project with bad co-ordination will cook up a really shitty web browser.  What happens then is I say "fuck this" and use a different web browser. That simple. I get to _choose_ what I use, unlike windows where you WILL use Internet Explorer and you WILL use Office because those .doc documents cant work with anything else.  When I can choose what to use why would I use something that doesnt work?

flap:
I think you're going a bit hard on him there.

 
quote:the Civil Air Safety ppl use linux for their databases and I'm willing to bet that they're databases are bigger than your databases
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They may use the GNU/Linux operating system but they don't necessarily use a free DBMS, which is what I think he's talking about. I have no idea what the limits of Postgresql (or any other FS DBMS that may exist) are so he may be right.

But you're right, there's no reason why he couldn't run a different, non-free, DBMS (such as Oracle) on GNU/Linux.

Faust:

quote:I think you're going a bit hard on him there.
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Sorry, I thought I was being civil but maybe I lost it.  :rolleyes:  

As I said M505 don't think I'm flaming you,  I really am interested in your thoughts.

Calum:
you didn't lose it.

where at any point did faust say anything out of line? i agree with every word faust said and do not see anything unreasonable in it.

spencerpi:
Hi guys,

Some good answers here, thanks. The 4GL is called Centura and it just doesn't exist on Linux. It's a client/server tool, Windows front end and we use Oracle as backend on a variety of servers. Mostly we run it on which os the customer's server is running.

I WILL go for that Linux partition, you guys are too convincing for me.    A friend of mine is running Gentoo already. I'm going to try that and learn the basics from him.

Thx again.

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