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Re: IDL Help Gone Missing [message #27287 is a reply to message #27282]

Wed, 17 October 2001 03:59

stevens
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Registered: July 1995

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In <9qji5k$o16$1@rook.le.ac.uk>, Nigel Wade:

[Snip...]

> You're worried about a few patches for Linux?
> Patches are fine, install them if you need them. Ignore them if you don't.

Thank you for injecting some rational considered insight into this. I've
listened to this impatient bashing of Linux (or FreeBSD, etc.), for what
is nothing, compared to proprietary alternatives. It is in my experience
one of the most prompt, reasonable, and effective tool maintenance paths
I've ever used in 30+ years of this stuff.

As you said, folks need to either just do it (with Open Source, if those
means suit them), or forget it, and get on with their lives. If it's got
nothing to do with securing their system or avoiding crashes just forget
about it. I've helped run a webserver/email system on 32 MB RAM P133 for
nearly five years of Linux now, installing exactly two patches on it.

(Full disclosure: doesn't include complete system rebuild over a weekend
after a system disk hardware crash)

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		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 17 October 2001 08:24
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: thompson on Wed, 17 October 2001 07:52
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: stevens on Wed, 17 October 2001 03:59
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 17 October 2001 02:14
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: Karsten Rodenacker on Tue, 16 October 2001 23:27
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 16 October 2001 20:36
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: David Fanning on Tue, 16 October 2001 20:03
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: Richard French on Tue, 16 October 2001 17:08
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 16 October 2001 15:34
		Re: IDL Help Gone Missing By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 16 October 2001 14:39

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