"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
i hear its as stable as mac (maybe more) and it has all the shiny happy little flashy effects all over the place. cant u even install it on your comp, run windows then restart into linux mode or something??? thats what i heard....anyways the last i checked it was around 900mb download so no thanks...i'll stick with my blue screen errors and illegal operations...
My dad always installs a new version of linux (either RedHat or some other version (can't remember any of them) on his computer every few months. Eventually it does nothing useful so he erases it. Repeat.
Well to say that Linux is gods gift to computers would be to exaggerate.
Its still quite difficult to install (well some versions are) and there is a stackering high number of different releases (Red Hat etc.). So which one to use???
And you can of course kiss most of your applications goodbuy. They dont work. So find some other ones. Or try emulation mode (slow?). Well allright I can get another office program but then what about my 200 Word documents???
Linux is a operating system like any other with excactly the same problems. System craches, bugs etc.
Im not saying its worse than Microsoft Windows ... on the other hand its really not better.
Ive never tried it myself (but do of course know persons who have) because I never saw any apperant advantages.
Both Windows 2000 and Windows Xp appears to be very stable. No more blue screen. So Im not going to change anytime soon...
If you knew, I would have to kill you...
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9th July, 2003 at 12:29:23 -
i agree, XP is very stable. any crashes i have are because of third party software. no more blue screens of death, either.
Hmmm, "Stable as Mac." They forced us to use Macs sometimes at college, and 'stable' isn't a word I'd use to describe MacOS. Yeah, and I agree Windows XP is generally quite stable.
1. i have red hat 8.0 (and i plan to get some other too just too see what they're like)
2. the download is 650 * 5 (5 cd's) but it's more than worth it (and you can always order the cd's if you have 56k)
3. >>Cybermaze: how can you say all that bad if you've never tried it?
4. if you say that XP is stable... you haven't seen much outside of Bill Gates world!
5. >>dave_c: partly correct; you can have both windows and linux installed at the same time. All you need is a boot loader (GRUB,LILO or whatever) that allows you to choose which system to boot.
6. linux is nothing like windows or macos, it's a UNIX; a multi-user system with privilege hierarchy, remote login protocols, unique web hosting abilities and so much more!
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
it's old so don't trust the numbers, but it's the most important things you need to know
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
Linux is good except it has two huge flaws which cause me not to use it.
1. It is much less user friendly than Windows. Windows XP's user interface is extremely refined, the interface that RedHat uses is not that good.
2. Not enough software support. I can't play games on Linux and I can't use Multimedia Fusion on Linux. I can't even view certain websites properly without IE. Don't get started on emulation, it is way to buggy and slow for my taste.
I would be willing to put up with number 1, but number 2 is a really big flaw in my opinion. XP is plenty stable, maybe not as stable as Linux but it is still very stable (I have only had it freeze up once). For me, I see no good reason to move to Linux. For a business it might make sense because MS charges such high fees per computer.
"3. >>Cybermaze: how can you say all that bad if you've never tried it?"
Please read my post:"Ive never tried it myself (but do of course know persons who have)".
And its people I see as equally good or better at operating a computer than I am.
It depends of course of what you use your computer to do.
But both programs and games are much more available on Windows than Linux. And Im satisfied with the stability I get with both Windows 2000 as well as Xp. Crashes are unheard of. Xp has freezed but it is clearly due to a third party freeware program I use. I can just deactivate it.
did you really expect your windows programs to work under linux???????
games and stuff is not the world of linux....
1. it's illegal to make any money on linux sofware
2. if someone decide to make a piece of software they'll do it just because they think it would be useful, not just to make cash
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
the only reason to why you dont think there's less software for linux is that you'll never find it in ads or stores
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
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