But why is this on here, stuff like this is meant for distrowatch and linux.orgs news. If we had a news bulletin for every rc, beta, and official release, we'd be drowning in news items. Distrowatch.com already has 1-3 new release bulletins a day, and with 3-400 Linux distros out there, on top of the OS releases, we'd be drowning in threads.
I can only troll so much.
I know this is gonna sound like a troll to some, but it isn't, imo. But with Microsoft's shared source program with governments (China's included) what if they found an exploit and and simply didn't tell Microsoft, but instead used it to their advantage. Could shared source create problems such as this? I know the military uses Windows for most of its computers (at least when I got out last year). Not sure about the ones attacked, however. Just some musings from me.
The BSD crowd is pissed because people abuse the cruddy license they came up with in the first place and want to throw a tantrum at the linux/gpl/fsf/gnu crowd.
No joke I was perusing a couple blogs and some pop-ups attempted to install programs on my computer. I ended said system processes and nothing got messed up, but still annoying nevertheless (especially considering that you can't completely get rid of IE on windows machines) so it still attempts to pop-up IE even though I never touch that program. May have been a different piece of malware though (damn the person who posted the idea of hot chicks blogging in the previous thread and damn me for looking).
Damn you slashdot.
Thank god somebody is with me on the command line cruft. So tired of the "but the command line is a powerful tool!" Yeah it's a powerful tool to the 1 percent of the population that doesn't mind learning or using it. To the other 99% of desktops out there, Linux will just be a 'worse' alternative. Listen up slashdotters please, (almost) nobody wants to type in rpm/apt-get/emerge somepackage -u -r/dev etc etc in the command line to install a program. They want something that just works (i.e. clicking to install, maybe a login and password, maybe a pop-up menu with options of types of installs that can be done with explainations). Also better out of the box support from the wi-fi folks and graphics card folks (although this relies on said companies and not ourselves). Don't worry about the games situation, the gamer community is small anyways, don't believe me, the Wii is outselling the 360 and PS3 combined and it's not trying to appeal to them at all. Things like synaptic are a good start, but their is still a lot of work that can be done to make it just work.
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But why is this on here, stuff like this is meant for distrowatch and linux.orgs news. If we had a news bulletin for every rc, beta, and official release, we'd be drowning in news items. Distrowatch.com already has 1-3 new release bulletins a day, and with 3-400 Linux distros out there, on top of the OS releases, we'd be drowning in threads. I can only troll so much.
I know this is gonna sound like a troll to some, but it isn't, imo. But with Microsoft's shared source program with governments (China's included) what if they found an exploit and and simply didn't tell Microsoft, but instead used it to their advantage. Could shared source create problems such as this? I know the military uses Windows for most of its computers (at least when I got out last year). Not sure about the ones attacked, however. Just some musings from me.
The BSD crowd is pissed because people abuse the cruddy license they came up with in the first place and want to throw a tantrum at the linux/gpl/fsf/gnu crowd.
No joke I was perusing a couple blogs and some pop-ups attempted to install programs on my computer. I ended said system processes and nothing got messed up, but still annoying nevertheless (especially considering that you can't completely get rid of IE on windows machines) so it still attempts to pop-up IE even though I never touch that program. May have been a different piece of malware though (damn the person who posted the idea of hot chicks blogging in the previous thread and damn me for looking). Damn you slashdot.
Thank god somebody is with me on the command line cruft. So tired of the "but the command line is a powerful tool!" Yeah it's a powerful tool to the 1 percent of the population that doesn't mind learning or using it. To the other 99% of desktops out there, Linux will just be a 'worse' alternative. Listen up slashdotters please, (almost) nobody wants to type in rpm/apt-get/emerge somepackage -u -r /dev etc etc in the command line to install a program. They want something that just works (i.e. clicking to install, maybe a login and password, maybe a pop-up menu with options of types of installs that can be done with explainations). Also better out of the box support from the wi-fi folks and graphics card folks (although this relies on said companies and not ourselves). Don't worry about the games situation, the gamer community is small anyways, don't believe me, the Wii is outselling the 360 and PS3 combined and it's not trying to appeal to them at all. Things like synaptic are a good start, but their is still a lot of work that can be done to make it just work.
Plus the PS3 can run Linux! I wonder why the Xbox 360 doesn't have a linux distro to tie in with?