OOOOOhh...lets test the install time between a Linux distro and the new Windows one and see which is quicker and which uses more space. I know people only do it once in a blue flood but we're kind of getting desperate now.
We'll use a Linux distro that fits on a 650MB CD and a Windows one that is on a 2.15GB DVD...I wonder which one will win.
And then we'll use some poncy benchmark that nobody has ever heard of and has no real world relevence to prove Linux is better than Windows 7.
I think we've just about tweaked it enough in our favour that we stand a chance
What we should do instead is raise money to buy an island and form a freedom-compliant government on it. The constitution of this island would state that everyone has total and complete freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to information, with absolutely, positively, no exceptions.
I guess you haven't quite thought that out then. It would be a child abusers paradise. After all, they don't see what they're doing as wrong and as they're entitled to freedom of expression, you cannot convict them. Also, freedom to information means anyone would have completely unrestricted access to any financial information of yours plus any private data as well such as passwords and PIN numbers.
Who cares when it will be released. Windows Se7en will still require the outlandish hardware that Vista does.
Of for fuck sake. Anything built in the last 3 years with 1GB will quite happily run Vista and certainly Windows 7. Just because you're so fucking poor that you can only afford decade old handmedown computers doesn't mean the rest of the world is the same.
Why the fuck are you posting on Slashdot? It's obvious you have fuck all interest in current IT, preferring instead to be a decade behind. Cunts like you would have had us still using 1Mhz 6502/Z80 with 1KB RAM.
I will still be getting my Ubuntu for free and with an (often) significant upgrade every 6 months.
You mean like the significant upgrade you got in 8.04 which broke password protected windows share browsing in Gnome? Or the next significant upgrade in 9.04 which is that it will finally stop killing laptop hard drives.
So £10 a month for your broadband, going by your usage claims and typical UK charges, is a huge amount of money? And you claim you're an IT manager?
Fuck man, how much debt are you in?
This isn't the USA so thanks to the fact we pay a bit more in tax, jobless doesn't mean penniless. In the UK, you're guaranteed £60 a week if you're single, £95 if you're a couple plus another £45 a week for each child. On top of that, council tax is then free. If you rent then you get help with that to a certain level and if you've a mortgage then once you've been unemployed 13 weeks, your mortgage interest is paid at Bank of Englsnd base rate plus 1.58%.
And also because it's the UK, you don't have to shit yourself about not being able to meet HMO insurance bills. When you're unemployed, even the flat fee for prescriptions is waived.
In the UK and most of Europe, you get looked after when you're out of work. In the USA, you get fucked over when you're out of work.
Indymedia have never given the full story about anything. They're well known for just putting whatever point of view they want across whilst berating mainstream press for being biased. The hypocrisy in Indymedia is unsurpassed.
It does with the SHAC loonies. They've bombed people, harrassed people who had the most tenuous of links (like the cleaner of a manager of a company that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences) and carried out a campaign of harassment, violence and intimidation that many terrorist organisations would've been proud of.
I ain't a fan of Linux but even I can do more than this dufus. FFS, he spent most of his time in XP via Virtualbox. It'd been better if the article had been titled "What you can do on XP running in virtualbox on Ubuntu." Did he actually do anything other than run a standard Ubuntu install and then shove XP on a VM?
I hate to think how shit a Windows admin he is if this is the sum total of his abilities in Linux. As I said, I'm not a fan of Linux by any shot but even with the amount of dabbling I've done, I can do tenfold what this moron can merely by using the brain God gave me accompanied with help from Google search and Ubuntu Forums. Hell, if you're going to do as much in XP as he was when he ran Ubuntu, you might as well stick with XP.
At least I did the fucking job properly and didn't even use WINE.
When will Windows be ready for the desktop? Srsly.
Microsoft patched this and issued the fix through Windows Update a month before the worm was even in existence. It's only stupid fucks who don't update their OS that've got infected.
They're suing the wrong people. MS made it perfectly clear what was in Basic. It's the OEMs and lying fucks in the shops that should be the ones being sued.
How can Vista be a fail compared to Linux when it's managed to get 20 times the desktop market share of Linux in 1/10th of the time?
And where will Linux be when the current contributors and coders of the popular packages included in most distros have upped and gone? Already many projects have come to a complete stop with more set to follow as development is left to a handful of programmers.
I call bullshit. My 2 year old laptop running as my main computer has 68000, many of those being from time dualbooting Ubuntu which increased it at a rate of 20 per minute until I applied the dirty fix.
She's stupid because she ordered it with Ubuntu of her own volition.
Maybe because she was stupid enough to listen to Lusers who continually bleated on about how easy it was to use, how everything "Just worked" and that you could do everything you can with Windows but don't have to worry about viruses etc.
As her story proved, that's just utter bullshit.
Yeah, but that's because Canada is America without the shit bits so it's not a surprise you want to go. For most people who can afford to travel, visiting the US is going somewhere worse than where they came from in virtually every sense so if there's too much hassle, they'll just avoid it and go elsewhere.
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We'll use a Linux distro that fits on a 650MB CD and a Windows one that is on a 2.15GB DVD...I wonder which one will win.
And then we'll use some poncy benchmark that nobody has ever heard of and has no real world relevence to prove Linux is better than Windows 7.
I think we've just about tweaked it enough in our favour that we stand a chance
What we should do instead is raise money to buy an island and form a freedom-compliant government on it. The constitution of this island would state that everyone has total and complete freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to information, with absolutely, positively, no exceptions.
I guess you haven't quite thought that out then. It would be a child abusers paradise. After all, they don't see what they're doing as wrong and as they're entitled to freedom of expression, you cannot convict them. Also, freedom to information means anyone would have completely unrestricted access to any financial information of yours plus any private data as well such as passwords and PIN numbers.
Who cares when it will be released. Windows Se7en will still require the outlandish hardware that Vista does.
Of for fuck sake. Anything built in the last 3 years with 1GB will quite happily run Vista and certainly Windows 7. Just because you're so fucking poor that you can only afford decade old handmedown computers doesn't mean the rest of the world is the same.
Why the fuck are you posting on Slashdot? It's obvious you have fuck all interest in current IT, preferring instead to be a decade behind. Cunts like you would have had us still using 1Mhz 6502/Z80 with 1KB RAM.
I will still be getting my Ubuntu for free and with an (often) significant upgrade every 6 months.
You mean like the significant upgrade you got in 8.04 which broke password protected windows share browsing in Gnome? Or the next significant upgrade in 9.04 which is that it will finally stop killing laptop hard drives.
WTF do you mean it's not happening? Have you actually bothered to look at any market share data in the last 6 months?
So that's 3 CDs or 2DVDs a month then.
So £10 a month for your broadband, going by your usage claims and typical UK charges, is a huge amount of money? And you claim you're an IT manager?
Fuck man, how much debt are you in?
This isn't the USA so thanks to the fact we pay a bit more in tax, jobless doesn't mean penniless. In the UK, you're guaranteed £60 a week if you're single, £95 if you're a couple plus another £45 a week for each child. On top of that, council tax is then free. If you rent then you get help with that to a certain level and if you've a mortgage then once you've been unemployed 13 weeks, your mortgage interest is paid at Bank of Englsnd base rate plus 1.58%.
And also because it's the UK, you don't have to shit yourself about not being able to meet HMO insurance bills. When you're unemployed, even the flat fee for prescriptions is waived.
In the UK and most of Europe, you get looked after when you're out of work. In the USA, you get fucked over when you're out of work.
Indymedia have never given the full story about anything. They're well known for just putting whatever point of view they want across whilst berating mainstream press for being biased. The hypocrisy in Indymedia is unsurpassed.
Information does not equate to action.
It does with the SHAC loonies. They've bombed people, harrassed people who had the most tenuous of links (like the cleaner of a manager of a company that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences) and carried out a campaign of harassment, violence and intimidation that many terrorist organisations would've been proud of.
I ain't a fan of Linux but even I can do more than this dufus. FFS, he spent most of his time in XP via Virtualbox. It'd been better if the article had been titled "What you can do on XP running in virtualbox on Ubuntu." Did he actually do anything other than run a standard Ubuntu install and then shove XP on a VM?
I hate to think how shit a Windows admin he is if this is the sum total of his abilities in Linux. As I said, I'm not a fan of Linux by any shot but even with the amount of dabbling I've done, I can do tenfold what this moron can merely by using the brain God gave me accompanied with help from Google search and Ubuntu Forums. Hell, if you're going to do as much in XP as he was when he ran Ubuntu, you might as well stick with XP.
At least I did the fucking job properly and didn't even use WINE.
When will Windows be ready for the desktop? Srsly.
Microsoft patched this and issued the fix through Windows Update a month before the worm was even in existence. It's only stupid fucks who don't update their OS that've got infected.
I'll revisit it when I reinstall the next machine which tends to be every six to eight months.
WTF? So he re-installs his computer every 6-8 months? Fuck me, you've not needed to do that with Windows for nearly a decade.
They're suing the wrong people. MS made it perfectly clear what was in Basic. It's the OEMs and lying fucks in the shops that should be the ones being sued.
Linux had NOTHING to do with it?
Absolutely 100% nothing?
And you tell ME to pull my head out? Stop licking Ballmers tonsils from underneath.
I'll put this argument to you. More people have downloaded Windows 7 BETA than the total number of users of Ubuntu.
Vista in 2 years has gained 20 times the desktop market share in 1/9th of the time that Linux has existed.
Load in a VM and check it out there of course.
Wow, you're generous. You're assuming that the user actually knows what to be looking for in the first place.
what is complex and complicated about the Word UI? if anything, the ribbon simplified the mess of buttons and menus that is Office 2k*/oo.o
It's a UI. He uses Linux so doesn't know what a proper UI is - just look at The GIMP, KDE 4....
Fixed for accuracy. Seriously, what is the issue people have with Vista making use of the memory you have?
Exactly. In fact, the very people who berate Windows overlook the fact that so many people in the Linux community thought Superfetch was a good idea that the "preload" daemon in Linux was born.
Oh look, here's a "Preload Drastically Improves Linux Performance " Slashdot article.
And where will Linux be when the current contributors and coders of the popular packages included in most distros have upped and gone? Already many projects have come to a complete stop with more set to follow as development is left to a handful of programmers.
I call bullshit. My 2 year old laptop running as my main computer has 68000, many of those being from time dualbooting Ubuntu which increased it at a rate of 20 per minute until I applied the dirty fix.
No it doesn't and certainly nowhere near as much as 20 times a minute. I'd like to see the proof.
Considering that it actually affected quite a few distros, it was pretty much "Linux" in this case.
She's stupid because she ordered it with Ubuntu of her own volition.
Maybe because she was stupid enough to listen to Lusers who continually bleated on about how easy it was to use, how everything "Just worked" and that you could do everything you can with Windows but don't have to worry about viruses etc.
As her story proved, that's just utter bullshit.
Yeah, but that's because Canada is America without the shit bits so it's not a surprise you want to go. For most people who can afford to travel, visiting the US is going somewhere worse than where they came from in virtually every sense so if there's too much hassle, they'll just avoid it and go elsewhere.
No it doesn't. I used FF 3.0.5. Anyway, you can only install it from a SP1 Vista installation so you're still shit outta luck.