Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > very different. I want to imagine a world of using a stable and secure > computer to achieve much more. Or, perhaps my frustration is influenced > by chastisement from a friend recently, a programmer, who said; life's > short, time is precious, why spend time getting things to work on Linux?
For one thing, when you make a fix to Linux, everybody else can get the benefits, too. This mailing list is a living archive of answers, plus a bunch of people who are willing to answer questions where they can -- and then those answers are archived and available to help future people. -dsr-