Hello Nick!   
      
   Sunday June 10 2018 22:26, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    > On 11 Jun 18  00:48:08, Benny Pedersen said the following to Roger   
    > Nelson:   
      
    BP>>  RN> You still have X, Y, Z and a host of other options.  (-:   
    BP>>   
    BP>> opensource is nice :)   
      
    > A wise man told me "I'm afraid now this is a knee-jerk response in a   
    > way you may not like to hear".   
      
   -- large cut ---   
      
    > Sorry Benny, I know you post in good fun, and I know I'm fair game but   
    > every time I see another yay-for-open-source post its just...   
    > cringeworthy.   
      
   I am a Linux user for my main BBS system as it also runs Mysql, ftp, apache    
   and   
   other servers as well as /mf suuport for MVS and others.   
      
   It is on 24/7 actually never needs to be rebooted even after a kernel update   
   (mind you, you will not get the new kernel features if you don't).   
   As an AMD 8 core it nver seems to go above 10% load and is usually below 5%.   
   Loading does not include large compiles as I have been known to specifiy using   
   up to 4 cores to help speed it all up :)   
      
   I starting using Linux after IBM threw in the towel on OS/2, I carried on for    
   year or so but the company they passed it to (having rejecting giving it to    
   the   
   large community) did swat for the period and the only updates that I have seen   
   since is little regens with a few updated driver and those mostly from the   
   community.   
      
   At this point I gave up and I was using an early release of Warp v5 but with   
   with the old win v3 rubbish in and switched to Linux. for both my main system   
   and the media system that runs with Ubuntu and Mythtv, my laptop and the    
   wife's   
   desktop use Windows v10 and v7 respecively and no I have not updated my wife's   
   system as that might be one step too far for her despite she has been using   
   computers since the mid 70's but that might be related to when we got married   
   and I was supporting M/F's (mainframes) and only went into micros in 1976 and   
   then creating a distribution company that supplied Books, Mags, Software and   
   even some hardware before PC's starting appearing (before 1981) that we   
   supported with being the distributor for CPM, MPM and others from DRI and then   
   MSdos and Windows v1, 2, 3.0 (Not sold by us as un-usable) v3.1 which we sold   
   in large number to the new companies making PCs in every different disk format   
   possible and here we had to build a bespoke system that could handle all the   
   different formats for 8, 5.25 and 3.25/3.5 inch disks.   
      
      
   Your comments regarding the user interface such as KDE or Gnome is, welfounded   
   I am afraid and this is totally down to major updates being rolled out on a    
   new   
   distro version without intensive testing before hand along the lines of   
   release candidates and I do not mean over 4 weeks (way too short a period).   
      
      
   With Microsoft unless you are an early adopter it get well tested although not   
   as well as when it gets out in the field as millions of users do help to give   
   it some stick but here the problem is the difficultly of finding who / site   
   wise to send bug reports for the various elements that make a Windows system.   
      
   The major problem with Linux is that it is mostly community led so for those   
   that help test a new distro are doing so very part time and here I will    
   exclude   
   people like IBM who mainly play in speific areas.   
      
   So yes Linux does have it's inherent problems and very much so when a new   
   distro comes out and here the major problem is that many of them do NOT have a   
   LTS version - in fact the only ones I can think of are Ubuntu and Redhat (paid   
   for).   
      
   As for pure O/S software, My own Accounting tool along with a range of   
   difering system products/tools including some for BBSing  have been made O/S   
   and that is more to do with my age to ensure that the software can be used   
   after my departure (but not any time soon).   
      
   The other reason was to encourrage others to help improve them but the reality   
   is that they don't.   
      
   Heck its hard enough to get feedback on them such as bug reports even.   
      
   DBridge going over to O/S might help a few users but very few as most do not   
   have the programming expertise to provide imput let alone the inclination.   
   May be the (well some one else will do it syndrome) showing up.   
      
   Nothing new here then.   
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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