[NCLUG] faith in linux

[Charles Clarke]

Say 20 "Hail Linus"s, go and sin no more, my son.

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, paul hansen wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:05:05 -0700 (MST)
> From: paul hansen <hansenp at CS.ColoState.EDU>
> Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] faith in linux
> 
> 
> Okay, I have to publicly repent. I suffered from a lack of faith in our
> great OS yesterday and I paid the price.
> 
> I got my cable modem yesterday afternoon. The tech took one look at my hub
> and machines scattered around the house, and upon hearing the work Linux
> he handed me the modem and said, "Good luck, you are on your own." That
> was cool with me. I'm a cocky linux user.
> 
> But then, a couple of hours later when my two-year-old was distracted
> enough to allow me to "play", I looked over at my dual-boot. I thought
> about the experiences we all heard about two weeks ago . . . ATT not
> activating the connection and not being responsive until it was
> demonstrated via windoze. Ah hell, I thought, I might as well test it on
> windows first. It seemed so easy . . . stick the cd in . . .click a couple
> of times . . . give it a machine name . . .watch the test screen come up
> . . .failure, failure, failure. After a couple hours of pulling my hair
> out over NT (dhcp, static . . .everything I could think of), I looked at
> my wife and said, "Oh man, this is going to be a nightmare. I don't think
> I have a conneciton."
> 
> BUT then I decided to test one of my linux clients. In less than five
> minutes I had a hot connection to the Internet -- (it would have taken
> less than five min to config but I had to boot single to turn off NIS and
> NFS). It took another ten minutes to throw a 2nd network adapter into my
> server and get it configured as the gateway. In less than 20 minutes my
> whole network was working perfectly. I really should have known better.
> 
> Linux is soooo cool.
> 
> 
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