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Hugh writes "The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has announced that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available."
Good greif, FreeBSD is going mainstram. Yuk!
How can I be condecending and arrogent when everybody else is using the same operating system as I am? How can I put on airs of self-ritous opression when people are actually supporting my OS?
Oh well, off to OpenBSD, or if that too poplar, I'll have to ger an Amiga. Sigh.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Objects in the blog are closer then they ap
No one's forcing you. ... you're still going to be limited by your hardware in the end. ... Give me a break.
... And Windows 2k/XP comes with a pretty darn good defragmenting utility.
I think he's refering to the fact that just to use the MS OS/GUI/apps requires a faster computer for every revision that Windows "advances". Would you dispute that? Did you ever go back to Windows 3.11 during the Win95 days, to see how damn fast 3.11 was over 95?
I would hazard a guess that Microsoft puts out OS'es that require more grunt and thus more PC sales, while the PC companies continue to bundle, yes you guess it... What do you think? They're trying to sell more OS'es and machines or do they really care about our system's usability?
I actually run OpenBSD as my desktop OS on my PIII-500 and my old iBook (along with Mac OSX, for the curiosity factor, which is now boring me after about 4 months). I *seriously* do not need MS Office, etc. I write my documents with html and convert them to gorgeous pdf's where need be from within any of my *nix machines.
This may have been true in WinME and previous operating systems, and perhaps I've been lucky,
I still get called to customer sites, where the customer simply installed some of their old Windows software, which then brought Win2k to a BSOD and then subsequent boot failures... I have to specifically try to fuck up a *nix to pull it off in the grand style that MS does with a natural talent. And when I have to fix a *nix, it is bloody easy. Boot "rescue" media, an install floppy or CD or whatever, get to a prompt, mount afflicted partitions, grep the logs, find the fault, fix the fault which is almost always really easy.
In MS OS, you have to decipher some cryptic core dumps or if you are really luck some really poor error logs.
If $140 is too much for Windows XP Pro, I feel sorry for you man.
Hey, my PC cost all up so far about $5000 au, notebooks total about $7000 au, you rekon we all avoid MS OS simply because of nothing more than monetary cost? Please. I paid good money for OSX, official OpenBSD CD's since 2.5 and cheap Debian cdr's from my local Linux shop.
Would the fact that I pick up thrown out P200MMX+ PC's off the street, put a free *nix on them and give them away as useful machines make me a pathetic cheapskate? I feel sorry for you.
This was only really needed with FAT(32). Windows NT4/2K/XP have all used NTFS,
Make your mind up will you. If it does'nt need this great defrager, then what's so great about it then?
That's fine, I've had my Windows XP desktop at work running for the past month without downtime. I only reboot when a critical hotfix comes out, and I've been fine.
Yeah, so what. It's a desktop right? If you were smart, you'd avoid problems and reboot your desktop at least once a day just because a typical MS desktop normally only has to gain stability from this. You wanna be a tool and talk about uptime?
But even that, that's pretty trivial (Add/Remove Components-->IIS)
You're pathetic.
And contrary to popular belief, disabling all of your services except for a "bare minimum" won't give you amazingly higher frame rates (Ooh, you gained 1 3d mark! So fast!)
Really pathetic.
No, I _could_ go on, but I'm tired of _this_. People who hate Windows just because it's a Microsoft product.
I'm tired too. 12 years supporting MS crap, has taken it's toll. You think people hate Windows because of Microsoft?
People hate Microsoft because of Windows. Fool.