I'm reading through the responses now. OK, I think comment number 71 is enough...

Er, yeah, so, not one mention of praise for the article, in fact a lot of calls for staff resignations in the ed dept., no-one can believe his claim to be a "network administrator", and errily enough, a large number of responses from people who run Linux themselves.

This leads me onto an interesting question: just how many Windows admins and suchlike actually have Linux installed at home? Seems to be quite a few, judging from the responses on this NT-orientated site.

I'd hazard an unqualified guess that the recent estimates of Linux installations totalling between seven and twelve million is now grossely out of date. If I were to stick my neck out and give a figure, I'd say 15 million might even be conservative. Unfortuantely, its inherently impossible to give an accurate figure.

-----Original Message----- From: Laurie Brown [mailto:laurie@brownowl.com] Sent: 24 October 1999 17:50 To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: [alug] MA FUD

http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7420

Total bollocks. More pro-MS FUD. I never had any of that shit when I installed SuSE5.3 the first time, and that was bloody ages ago. 6.2 is a piece of piss. Clearly, the bloke has zero IT skills...

IMO, anyone with even a small breadth of IT skills should be able to get SuSE up-and-running with X and an internet connection inside 45 mins. It saddens me to see people blame Linux for their own inadequacies, AND to parade it as "evidence" that MS is better...

Cheers, Laurie.

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