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Linux For Supervillains

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-else-happening-today dept.

computernut writes "Supervillains seem to like Linux. Take a peek at a cool Shockwave Animation on why they use it." Cute little animation. I think we might have shown it here before, but hey it's Sunday, and August which means this is the closest thing to news we might have all day.

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  1. Linux versus Windows by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    "We were negotiating with the Pentagon. We had a Blue Screen of Death..."
    I have found Linux to be far less stable than Windows. I have used both on a lot of different systems, at work and at home. Linux is unlikely to completely crash (although it will—bad drivers or hardware are often the culprit). But KDE and Gnome go down all the time. It's not really fair to talk about applications. But Linux is the big loser there too.

    Windows XP, fully updated, rarely goes down. Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest. You just need to restart explorer.exe. Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related. The hardware culprits for me have been: An ATI Radeon card, a motherboard (a revision of K7s5a fails memtest out of the box), and bad RAM, of coore than a year.

    None of my current Linux systems go for more than a month without X-Windows manager troubles. In one case, I know this to be a video card driver issue. The others, I have no idea about.
  2. Re:Of course by The+Bubble · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In response to this breaking Slashdot news, the Bush Administration has instigated a trade embargo against all open source projects. "Open source fuels terrorism," said the chairman of the administration's software committie.