RE: [stellation-res] JRE as project library

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 16:28, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> It seems OK now. BTW I have problems like you are describing with any Linux
> system. I find that housekeeping task take 100 times as long to perform on
> Linux. I have been trying off-and-on for weeks to get a Linux system going
> without success.

Personally, I rarely have problems with linux; I find getting anything
set up right on windows to be impossible frustrating and difficult. I
suspect it really comes down to what you're used to: I used to work
as a sysadmin, so I know a lot of unix administration; windows, on the
other hand, has always been an impossible to deal with mystery to me.

My current problems are caused by the fact that I'm using a broken 
linux installation. The local watson admin group put together their
own version of Linux, which contains a bunch of local customizations.
I decided to give it a shot. I'm both amazed and appalled that anyone
could manage to break so many things; from the network configuration,
to timezones, to paths, to X configurations, to fonts, to as yet
unexplained random lockups. It's simply astonishing how thoroughly they
managed to take RedHat 7.3, which is a pretty solid stable distro, and 
methodically break just about *everything* in the course of customizing
it. Nothing works right - *nothing*. 

Anyway... If you're having linux administration problems, feel free
to consult me off-list. I'm happy to try to help out, and I usually
know what I'm doing :-).

	-Mark

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