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Linux Community Halloween Challenge

LuMinoR writes "In a cool contest with a Halloween theme, BitDefender is inviting Linux enthusiasts to crash test their upcoming antivirus solution for Linux e-mail servers. The most thorough beta tester will receive 1,000 German beers and a trip to BitDefender's corporate headquarters in Romania, where they will attend meetings with Count Dracula, the BitDefender development team and other local luminaries."

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  1. Linux 2.6.14 released -- 2 days ago! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And slashdot still hasn't posted the story. Getting lamer every day.

  2. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dang!

  3. How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    AKA a nazi fanatic loser.

    1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.

    2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.

    3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.

    4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.

    5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.

    6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?

    7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.

    8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts,
    and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)

    9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.

    10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.

    11. You cannot admit that linux sucks when it comes for gaming/home entertainment or education.

    12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.

    13. You have problems in pointing a clicking, but have no problems in wading through cryptic scripts written by lunatics.

    14. Nothing will get past that shit that fills your head, you will not admit to any facts.

    15. You can't admit that naming of linux components, packages, and others are weird and fits profiles of troubled teenagers. gentoo, lgx, rpm ....

    16. You feel angered because you were left out by microsoft's Media technologies, they support Mac, Sun sparc, but not linux.

    17. You feel inferior deep inside but unable to admit it, you don't have a database as easy and powerful as Access.

    18. You cannot tell that not a single office package outside Microsoft's is worth looking at or bothering with.

    19. You don't know that your CD recorder software sucks.

    20. You don't have DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW support in your pathetic OS.

    21. While the rest of the world moves on, you're stuck in a stone age technology that needs third party software to boot into GUI.

    22. You act out of prejudice, you kill file domains and users of specific news readers while you ignore the bullshit that your fellow linux losers post.

    23. You don't know commercial support in Linux is almost non existent.

    24. You miss the fact that companies are leaving linux because of the chaos, and the cheap linux losers who are unwilling to pay and support hard work, Corel, gaming companies,...etc.

    25. You are unaware that linux has no terminal services (there is a lame one that no one uses), and commercial support for it is not happening.

    26. You are unaware that setting up servers on Windows takes couple of minutes while on linux, good luck playing with configuration scripts.

    27. You cannot admit that support for USB on linux is laughable at best.

    28. You think that Linux is better because slashdot told you so.

    29. You spend countless hours flaming people because they post their opinions about your oh so cool linux and your attitude, instead of researching things for yourself and understanding fact in order not to look this stupid.

    30. You think that anyone who uses linux has a clue.

    31. You think that linux cannot crash.

    32. You think that everyone is interested in your conspiracy theories about Microsoft (or should i say M$ in order for you, teenagers to understand?), and how they destroyed linux, ...etc.

    33. You keep ignoring the fact that thousands of linux servers get hacked every year, but it takes one Windows server hacked to get you and your fellow linux idiots to dance and celebrate.

    1. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is over 5 years old, which I must say seems older than you are. Please update your shitty material.

    2. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think your post is pretty funny - and even somewhat true - however I have to say that there IS professional use of Linux. I'm a central IT design guy in a company with 60,000 windows boxes and 1,200 Linux boxes. The Linux ones are the professionals - they do high end stuff like Geo mapping (finding oil, etc.) on them that they can't do on their windows machines yet.

    3. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by WheelDweller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And yet...the numbers are climbing; a week ago a report informed us that our numbers now double, on the desktop, the MacIntosh.

      I set up DOS/Windows shops from Huntsville, AL to Chicago, IL...the amazing mass-hysteria of this mega-monopoly is partly my fault; sorry. But now I work to correct it.

      An important concept to remember is that while there are still things to be improved, one virus of 200,000+ and your day is toast, your work evaporated, AND YET YOU STILL STAY WITHOUT TRYING TO CHANGE IT.

      We did. And every day it gets better, not more expensive.

      Enjoy the show!

      --
      --- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov
    4. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Reply: 1. Maybe that's because we're actually told about the bugs, and given ways to avoid them until a bugfix is released (usually quite shortly afterwards). 2. I've never used the word tr*** on slashdot in my life. 3. Actually Linux supports my desktop better than Windows does, any time I want to install Windows I have to go looking for drivers for the motherboard's builtin sound card (VIA AC97 I think, I could run lspci but I'm lazy....). 4. I don't run a Windows emulator, my desktop has everything I need.... 5. Well seeing as I only develop server apps that's true, but I'll bet people do use Linux for other things... 6. Yeah, and the average Joe thinks Office is part of Windows, and if the versions on Windows and Office don't match something is wrong. 7. Professional printing? I have no idea what that is and I've never had to do it..... It's probably something that OS X does better than Windows. 8. Like I said, I don't use Windows crap (why would Windows progs compile on Linux anyway?). The only scripts I've ever made are little things to make life easier in my bash terminal (I wish they worked on the crappy windows terminal). 9. Never had to do it, best left to Mac. 10. ditto, I think the name of the prog is Final Cut 11. Gaming: games are boring, I rarely play them.... get a PS2 if you really like games. Home entertainment: who the hell uses a PC for home entertainment? The most I do is play some flac files, real theater systems do much better tan Linux OR Windows 12. I understand Windows perfectly, it just doesn't do what I need it to. 13. I've never needed to read through a script..... 14. nor will you..... 15. Yes, because Vista is such a great name 16. I don't feel angry at all, I have FLAC and Vorbis, and RealPlayer will run on Linux just fine (no ads either, I was dissapointed the first time I saw RealPlayer 10 running on Windows, who the hell needs a "message center"?) 17. OpenOffice base? 18.OpenOffice.org, most of the Windows people I know prefer (death to the paperclip!). OpenOffice has PDF creation, MS Office has millions of sidebars telling you what to do. 19. GNOME works just fine, I don't burn audio CDs or Video CDs so I don't know about those... 20. GNOME lets me burn DVDs, and I can watch them too 21. My distro boots into GUI automatically, is there such a thing as 3rd party with linux? 22. I don't even know what this means 23. O great, so if I had Windows I could call India for support, lovely. And since when is there no commercial support, what about Novell and Red Hat? 24. You just keep thinking that.... 25. My desktop is acting as a headless terminal server right now..... 26. ::Checks box, click button:: Hey apache started... I have yet to figure out how to do it on Windows 27. Hmmm, the stuff I use works fine..... 28. It did? I wasn't listening 29. I do? I didn't know that 30. They tend to.... not always, but far higher chances than a Windows user... 31. Oh I've found ways to crash it..... I have yet to find a way NOT to crash Windows. 32. Microsoft destroyed linux? (checks kernel.org) nope it's still there 33. Gimme an example....

  4. mostly true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yet you care about what we think enough to post this?