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Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents

Posted by timothy on from the all-stolen-from-vannevar-bush dept.

itwbennett writes "As details about new features in Windows 8 started to be discussed in the Building 8 blog and bandied about in Linux/Windows forums, Linux users were quick to chime in with a hearty 'Linux had that first' — even for things that were just a natural evolution, like native support for USB 3.0. So ask not 'did Linux have this first', but 'does Windows 8 do it better?'"

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  1. Meh. by zooblethorpe · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't really see anything here worth the attention -- this really just looks like an attempt to generate traffic.

    Move along, nothing to see here.

    ...No, really. It's quite dull and profoundly uncontroversial.

    --
    "What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
    "A four-foot prune."
  2. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or you could click on it in Gnome/Nautilus (and probably whatever file manager KDE uses), but don't let that get in your way of your rant.

  3. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linux requires root for too many things. You shouldn't need root to mount a file/device.

    So you're saying I should be able to plug in a USB stick with a setuid root shell on it, mount that without root permissions, and own your system with almost zero effort?