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ray wrote:
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:40:37 +0100, Gordon wrote:

On 01/04/2011 05:00, Student wrote:
Linux has always intrigued me and I have tried many distros.

I now have a computer with eSATA. I had a spare hard disk and eSata
enclosure.

To pass my time I tried Linux again tonight.

I tried Ubuntu, Mint gnome and Mint debian based.

Honestly Linux missed the boat just as IBM missed the boat with OS2.

I am firmlly entrenched in windows 7 at home and xp at my office.

xxx

Missed the boat with WHAT?

Evidently, marketing. IMHO, that was IBM's shortcoming with OS2 - they
had a better product.

No way! I ran OS/2 v2.x and I was a beta tester for OS/2 v3. And the
beta testing things were doing just fine. But just like in IBM's style,
they screwed up in the released version. They changed many of the
drivers and a huge amount of beta testers couldn't even get it to
install (including myself).

Better product, my eye! I have at least a dozen computers right in this
room alone. And I can take that Warp install CD and I can guarantee you
that it will not install on any of them. Then there was all of those
FixPaks! Most of them broke more than they fixed. And old bugs were
coming back to haunt OS/2. That is because every time IBM tried to fix
something, they made it worse than ever before. Then they would plug
back the old code that had the old bugs.

It wasn't a failure of IBM's marketing! Hell IBM spent 2 billion dollars
on OS/2 alone. It was a failure of IBM's programmers couldn't program
their way out of a wet paper bag. And IBM made promises they couldn't
keep. This later became well known as FUD.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era)
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3