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Like that picture of Satan in the WTC pics :P
Of Mr goatse!
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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Let's all work together to improve free software.
sorry people but i must spred the truth, openbsd is not secure, windows is audited, so is openbsd, auditing == not secure! linux and openwall is far more secure, although openbsd's inetd.conf is secure, comments?
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
Valuable information about the FreeSoftware/OpenSource/Linux movements and their excellent, superior software can be found here, here, here, here and here.
Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Let's all work together to improve free software.
If you had bothered to follow the links, you would have noticed that these are mostly all anti-FSF/OSS/Linux links. This is supposed to be satire. I especially urge you to follow the first aol.com link. It is very, very funny (and true!). I am merely trying to ape your average Linux supporting moron. Natalie Portman pix, ne1?
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Im very offended by the penguin porn found on this site!
God likes th Denver Broncos. :P
That was a JOKE!
-- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
if your a troll and you know it, clap your hands!!!! if your a troll and you know it, clap your hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its bigger than a breadbox
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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!
Michael Sims is a liar.
-Legion
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Windows system.
An important factor in Windows' cost is its maintenance. Windows requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the millions of low- paid Windows administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Windows seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Windows' native file system, FAT32, is known to lose data like a firehose spouts water when the file system is accessed. Other OS file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows FAT32 out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
According to Windows advocates, an alternative to FAT32 would be FAT. Unfortunately, FAT is still in beta stage. This means it is not intended for production use (although according to many Windows advocates this shouldn't be a problem, which makes me wonder how (little) valuable they find your data).
The other proposed 'solution', NTFS, is nothing more than an ugly hack to put journaling into the file system. All the drawbacks of the ancient FAT32 file system remain in NTFS, for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the EXT2 heritage in EXT3 was considered a very bad thing by the Windows community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever. When it's about Windows, compatibility constraints don't seem to be that much of a problem for Windows advocates.
Back to Windows' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Windows than on any other OS. On other OSes, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Windows are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Windows advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "blue screens of death".
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Windows' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of other OSes, but not one of them is implemented right. A Windows user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Windows is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc.