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Grokking Knoppix
chronicon writes "Knowing Knoppix is a beginner-friendly, 134 page freely downloadable book (released under the GNU Free Documentation License in PDF format) designed to familiarize new users with the Knoppix LiveCD distribution, GNU/Linux in general, and (as listed first on the description) Windows disaster recovery using Knoppix."
I'd like to pick a few things out of yourpost.
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
Lets have a quick look at MS.
There have been more bugs in their various software than probably all other final software put together. Didn't Windows 95 have 6,000 bugs confirmed in the end? Windows 2000 needed 4 packs. And how about Windows ME? Even the latest Windows XP needs 2 packs - and even SP2 is so badly coded that on some computers it does more harm than good. Doesn't XP stand for "Experience". What experience was taken exactly?
Why did Microsoft take it upon themselves to deliberately send a bad stylesheet to Opera to make it look "broken". And why has MS designed Windows Update so incredibly badly that it will only work on IE. There are plenty of technologies you could use to make it cross browser. Hardly a fair player are you. So with that in mind, let's view your Linux vs Windows comparison.
You're stats are fascinating and may well be accurate however as has been mentioned several times before, are not realistic to the real world. After all, where are the various "features" you so often find with Windows, such as the viruses and adware that pre-sp2 IE just LOVED to allow to be installed? I suspect if the tests were done on a 3 month old SP1 version of Windows XP, the results would be very very different.
While Windows might have a slightly friendlier interface and may even be faster when it first starts out, to claim it is out and out better is complete bollocks. Linux has many many advantages over Windows. For one, security, good security (compared). Linux doesn't bug me for a .net password or bullshit activation the first time I boot up. Linux offers many great features already built in, such as virtual desktops. I'm not going to do a blow for blow comparison but you can begin to see my point that Linux isn't the heap of shit you're trying to make out.
Reliable companies with tried and tested products or that bedroom coder Thorwaldes who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
The fact you deliberately get his name wrong and try to imply he's some sort of illegal hacker makes you look like a petty little man and gives you very little credance. If you bother to do a bit of research you will see there is a big difference between what is accepted as a CRACKER and as a HACKER. The first being illegal the second being curiousity and learning. To answer your own question, I would rather trust someone who spends more time trying to make things work in the first place, than a company who has to spend time trying to fix things because they didn't work properly in the first place - when they should have.
Oh and "tried and tested products"??? How many zoos did you raid to get these testers? The only people who think Windows is "reliable" are those who think that AOL is teh l77t 1nt3rnet!!!!!111111
Get paid to search..It's geniune and
I would assume that the remastering and customizing arnt touched in light of the being for the LiveCD and not for the installation. so all the work joe user does to customize is purged at restart. and my one beef with knoppix is how... unsimple it is to install it to your HD, i will stick with SimplyMepis.
Fuck off and die. SCO has no legal basis for their claims.