Fire ants are one reason that the horned lizard, once plentiful in Texas, are now scarce.

DH

For those more "visual" learners...

http://www.hak5.org/

Can you imagine? The only package manager that prompts you for your credit card number when you click "apply". Unless, of course, your optional packages are minesweeper and pinball. :-)

I don't want my OS to be friendly. I want it to be obedient.

I agree, and it reminds me of something that happened a year or so ago. I run Gentoo Linux on my laptop and I'm the only person in my office not running XP (and now a few are running Vista). I like XP ok, but my co-workers find it strange that I stick with Linux. One day I was showing someone a video on my system when the ALSA sound drives hosed. Happed every once in a while in KDE, so I said "Let me fix this first" and I restarted alsasound.

My coworker said "Heh, I thought Linux was perfect."

I replied. "Nope. But let me ask you a question. If your sound drivers died in Windows XP, how would you restart them without rebooting the box?"

He had nothing else to say. I like the flexibility and control with Linux. I want to completely own the systems I use. Just my 2 cents.

dH

Seems to me the point was not about running to Linux as alternative to Vista, but staying with XP.