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Linux For Supervillains
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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This thing is nearly 3 years old
It's mentioned on other websites with a date of january 2003!
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
When I post something relevant it gets rejected, but when someone posts an admittedly funny, but million year old flash animation, it gets front paged?
I wouldn't be surprised to see a /. story on, say, hampster dance in a few years. Not only has that video been around for years, but Darl Mcbride even referred to it in his "open letter" not long ago:
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A popular animation
on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."
http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam060.h
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08
For most desktop use, though, an X crash (which is probably what you mean by "KDE and Gnome go down all the time") wipes out all your unsaved work and demands a reboot, just as a full-blown operating system crash does. The hair-splitting about "completely crash" doesn't change that.
The bitching about BSODs goes back to when Linux use involved running vi in an xterm in FVWM on barebones video cards. In those days, the GUI really was rock-solid (and Windows was really as flimsy as people made out).
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Don't laugh. Darl McBride actually mentioned this animation in his Long Live Unix letter. He was making fun of the "First you have to config it, then write some shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..." part, but he raised this obviously humorous animation as a serious criticism of Linux.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
Obviously if you're using Windows and your GDI server crashes you are not going to be able to use the Command Prompt application. So why do you seem to think that a crashed X server could ever possibly allow you to use xterm?
I don't. That's the point. The common argument that if X crashes, your OS hasn't crashed is a strawman. Most users apps are going to be running in X anyways.
The "console environment" is the virtual console layer, which is separate from X. That's what he's talking about. I have no reason to believe you know anything in any detail about Linux or similar operating systems based on your post.
I know what he was talking about. I was pointing out that if you're running X, chances are you're running all, or most of your apps under X, such as in an xterm, which means those apps die as well.
Yes, if you're running stuff in a Virtual Screen, in addition to X, the stuff in other screens will be fine, but that's small consolation to those that are not.
At any rate, X server crashes are rare these days. This is all pretty much irrelevant.
Just like BSOD's are rare on Windows, I would suppose. Same argument.
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