[Linux4christians] Linux

[Mike McMullin]

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 21:56 -0400, Ken Sprouse wrote:
> n Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Robert Poppo
> <ebenezeriesous at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 09/27/2010 06:47 PM, Robert Poppo wrote:
>                  Ask The Lord Jesus to take your life and control it
>                 and trust in Him as your only way to get to Heaven.
>                 Your choice, narrow way(Linux) or the broad
>                 way(Windows).
>                 
>                 
>                 Sincerely in His Grace,
>                 
>                 
>                                Robert Poppo
> 
> 
> I work in IT and I have to say I have never thought of Linux quite
> that way before.  It does make a certain amount of sense though.  I
> typing this on a new "generic" desk top box that I just put together
> with an AMD quad core processor, 4 gigs of RAM, ab Nvidia GForce video
> card with 1 gig of RAM and a  1 terabyte hard drive.  With all that
> hard drive space I could easily have installed both Windows and Linux
> on the system but I didn't even consider it.  I installed Ubuntu 10.04
> and once I have everything configured exactly the way I want it I may
> install Virtual Box and set up a Windows virtual machine if I have
> some reason that I absolutely need to run Windows.

  I've been wanting to do that, but they are not selling the starter
edition of Win7 here, to my knowledge, and I'm not too keen on ponying
up over $100C for a system that takes too much time and energy to keep
running.

>   I try not to let the Windows vs Linux debate become a religious war
> in my work or dealings with other computer users but I am not shy
> about telling them that I use Linux, why I use it and why I think it
> is a better platform.

  The other night the guys at work were talking about how they kept the
Win installs secure, I had honestly forgotten what kind of a pain it can
be.  I asked them why they did all of that, when I just ran a firewall
on my router, I guess I'm kind of spoiled.  Not to mention I only
replatform a system when I want to change the distro, not because it has
once again become time.