reasons to hold off on Windows.

[Richard Demaret]

Hi Maitland and All,

Maitland, you wrote;

"Time for me to chime in on this thread....

Life is too short to run non-free software.

You have choice in OS: Linux, Hurd, FreeBSD, ReactOS, AltOS, ...

You have a choice in distributions: Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives...,
 TAILS, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, Pentoo, kali...,
 Red Hat, CentOS, Scientific Linux....,
 Android/CyanogenMod/Replicant
 OpenWrt, OpenEmbedded/Yocto, Angstrom,...

It turns out there are reasons for the multitude of choices,
some technical, most social, driven by optimizing for a variety
of specialized uses.

I, of course, suggest you use Debian - The Universal Operating System,
for all your general-purpose computing needs."

*Maybe, you could tell us more about these different Operating Systems and
Distributions.  *

It would be interesting to lean about their different uses.

Best Wishes
Richard KI4KXJ


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On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Maitland Bottoms <aa4hs at amrad.org> wrote:

> Time for me to chime in on this thread....
>
> Life is too short to run non-free software.
>
> You have choice in OS: Linux, Hurd, FreeBSD, ReactOS, AltOS, ...
>
> You have a choice in distributions: Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives...,
>  TAILS, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo, Pentoo, kali...,
>  Red Hat, CentOS, Scientific Linux....,
>  Android/CyanogenMod/Replicant
>  OpenWrt, OpenEmbedded/Yocto, Angstrom,...
>
> It turns out there are reasons for the multitude of choices,
> some technical, most social, driven by optimizing for a variety
> of specialized uses.
>
> I, of course, suggest you use Debian - The Universal Operating System,
> for all your general-purpose computing needs.
>
> =====
>
> If you are really not all about leaking private data on the
> Internet, or only very specific data, then I suggest you stick with TAILS.
>
> =====
>
> Software is bad. Often because it is written in programming languages.
>
> C - the source of many of our favorite buffer-overflow exploitations.
>
> C++ - Yeah, having just gone through the latest GCC-5 libstdc++6 ABI
> changes.
>
> Python - Python2 or Python3? Oh, and which distribution tool is current?
>
> Java - write once, run anywhere
>  Burned user: Uh, could you send us a new .jar Java library without the
> security bug?
>  Java Developer: No. What part of "Write Once" didn't you understand?
>
> =====
>
> Gnu Radio - certainly a moving target. But rather than give up I've
> forged ahead to make Debian's Gnu Radio ecosystem more useful.
> Debian 8.x Jessie will quickly work with your rtl-sdr, FunCube Dongle,
> Ettus uhd, miricom, hackrf, bladerf, rfspace, and airspy devices.
>
> David W2LNX is preparing to help me add openhpsdr hardware support.
>
> I could use help with updated softrock and iquadlabs sdrstick support
> too. Patches welcome.
>
> Nice to see under the AMRAD SDR web pages that the Ubuntu packages
> of quisk support the Charleston board. There is a reason for that.
> You are welcome.
>
> =====
>
> ....Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the flamewars
>
> vi/emacs
> sysvint/systemd
> gnome/KDE/unity/MATE/awesome/...
> mysql/mariadb/postgresql
> Linux/BSD
> ext4/ZFS
> CW/Phone/PSK31/WSPR/APRS
> Icom/Yaesu/Kenwood/Motorola/Elecraft/FlexRadio
> AllStar/Echolink/IRLP
>
> YKINMKBYKIOK: Your kink is not my kink, but your kink is okay.
>
>
> 73 de aa4hs,
> -Maitland
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