[Xastir] Re: Xastir on Windows

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Wes Johnston wrote:

> Jack, I'm not sure why all your messages appear with no text in them,
> instead your text is an attachment.

Same here.  On this machine.  At home though they don't appear that
way.  Might have to do with the pinepgp stuff I have installed on
one or the other.


> I've been
> playing with linux on our company's web server for about 2 years and it's
> time to bring that functionallity home.  I'm not pushing linux on you...
> just justifying my though process.

And I doubt you'll be able to push Linux on Jack.  ;-) He's been
there, and moved on to FreeBSD.  He's one of our Xastir developers,
and as sold on Unix and Unix-like OS'es as you are, probably more
so.  He's got a bit of experience under his belt.

I think he was just trying to be the voice of reason regarding the
various OS'es.  There are some people that only have a Windows box
at work and can't make major changes to it.  For them Cygwin is a
solution.  Others may have a family machine at home and don't want
to make major waves on it.  For them Cygwin is a solution.

Nothing like putting your toe into luke-warm water before deciding
to take a major plunge either.

My family definitely didn't want to switch to Linux on their
machine.  It takes time, and sometimes you can gain some advantage
during upgrades or Windows downtime to provide a more stable
alternative.  My wife and kids now happily use Linux, even for
gaming.  I suspect as the kids get older they'll want the latest
Windows games but for now they're having a blast with Rocks&Diamonds
and designing levels for it and others.


> I have no doubt as linux continues to
> catch on, there will eventually be email viruses targeted at red hat and the
> like.

There already are:  Lot's of attacks against Unix-like systems
already exist.  Unix has been around quite a bit longer than
Windows.  Windows is still the new kid on the block, and still seems
a bit peaked and undernourished (it gets ill fairly easily).  Unix
doesn't aspire to make it easy to run executables/scripts from your
e-mail.  They're a bit more security conscious.

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Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
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