...to know that if the net ever goes down totally, we can just all leap on our roofs and start grunt and waving wildly and we can do all our old stuff almsot exactly as we used to =)
ehehahh ok, i realize what you mean its just a funny picture =)
Actually the universe IS as tidy as CSICOP claims.
But my real point is that your right, windows is reliable. I mean, i know windows crashes, but it has never SUPRISED me by crashing, i just go "Oh, how typical. windows crashed." heh.
MY ideal place to live would involve me, some high end sgi's, some cool programs that need to be written with some cool people, beer, sausage rolls (mmmm!), linux, OpenBSD. Oh, and some of the latest games ported over to wahtever i happened to be workon at the moment. perfect! (not that Microsoft isnt in here.)
I donno myself, but i have a friend who thinks he knows everything about linux and he says the LIBC5 is more stable.
Ive been using linux longer then him, and I can say i've never had a problem with glibc2 stuff, cept compiling old libc5 code. He claims he has but lying. Essentially, for some things libc5 *might* be more stable.
I've used All (AFAIK) Distros of Linux, and Free, Open and NetBSD (thats why i have no life =) and i can say that the deb package format is better then the ports stuff. the ports stuff works fine, but its no where near apt. *BSD's hardware support is behind linux's.
And you are generally correct, the BSD 4.4 light varients tend to be slightly more stable. You can really bag the fuck out of a BSD system.
Can with linux to, but BSD handles it a little better.
StarOffice handles MS Word files perfect. I've used SO5 a lot for compatiblity with people who used it (don't as me why they use it, i think its ugly and silly myself).
Well, that brings other issues... I for one think alot about this shit, and its delightfully complicated! =) The idea that the brain is a 'wet computer' seems to be to be absolutley correct, mine even has bugs =P~ Seriously though, the i'm certain that we can create "Life" from a machine, since there is nothing magical about us, there is not 'soul' or 'spirit' which we gotta have to truly 'live'. The question really is, what exactly does something have to do to be 'alive'?
You point (which i forgot about) is that your not sure that mankind will be a kind ruler to the other beasts on our little planet. Well, that has nothing to do with living machinery. Making intelligent machines is a natural outgrowth of computers. Hell, mabye its already here, i get the feeling my computers has a deep and awe inspiring hatred of me.
Right now, there are a lot of RH users. Thats fine, right now, its the big distro and it might stay that way...
I started with Debian, found it a bit difficult, moved to slackware, found it difficult (heh.), moved to RedHat, found it easy. So i learned linux from redhat essentially, then moved back to Debian. (Then to OpenBSD, but thats not related)
My point is, once people get a little more familiar with Linux, i'll bet a lot of people are gonan go exploring the various Linux Distros for themselves. Personally, i've explored all of them that i know of (except a few RH52 varients) just for fun. It was fun actually =) its like a little christmas each time you learn a distros kinks.
Probably (Hopefully?) others will do the same and settle on a distro that suits them, which may very will not be RH.
Preach it brother =P Just like on that propaganda.themes.org! JFK says "The day they take linux from us is the day they tear it from our cold dead hands".
I use a Triple Boot Win32/Linux/OpenBSD Games/Apps/The Rest and it would be perfect if i didnt need Win32 for games.
I really like linux though, and i don't think its getting shitty or losings steam. Why not stop complaining and being fatalistic and mabye get involved with some of the Linux "Celebrities" (heh), maybe email one of them and see what they think?
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Yeah! Bring back gopher!!!
I liked gopher, it was simple and fast.
...to know that if the net ever goes down totally, we can just all leap on our roofs and start grunt and waving wildly and we can do all our old stuff almsot exactly as we used to =)
ehehahh ok, i realize what you mean its just a funny picture =)
Actually the universe IS as tidy as CSICOP claims.
But my real point is that your right, windows is reliable. I mean, i know windows crashes, but it has never SUPRISED me by crashing, i just go "Oh, how typical. windows crashed." heh.
Hell, if this is heaven i've been skrewed =)
MY ideal place to live would involve me, some high end sgi's, some cool programs that need to be written with some cool people, beer, sausage rolls (mmmm!), linux, OpenBSD.
Oh, and some of the latest games ported over to wahtever i happened to be workon at the moment.
perfect! (not that Microsoft isnt in here.)
Thats funny? it sounds normal to me, who wants to code something that sucks? yeh, that would be a lot of fun.
I donno myself, but i have a friend who thinks he knows everything about linux and he says the LIBC5 is more stable.
Ive been using linux longer then him, and I can say i've never had a problem with glibc2 stuff, cept compiling old libc5 code. He claims he has but lying. Essentially, for some things libc5 *might* be more stable.
I've used All (AFAIK) Distros of Linux, and Free, Open and NetBSD (thats why i have no life =) and i can say that the deb package format is better then the ports stuff. the ports stuff works fine, but its no where near apt.
*BSD's hardware support is behind linux's.
And you are generally correct, the BSD 4.4 light varients tend to be slightly more stable. You can really bag the fuck out of a BSD system.
Can with linux to, but BSD handles it a little better.
StarOffice handles MS Word files perfect.
I've used SO5 a lot for compatiblity with people who used it (don't as me why they use it, i think its ugly and silly myself).
but anyway, use SO5 for MS office compatibility.
me neither!
then again i never really used MacOS.
Its lame. i don't like things that are lame.
Use OpenBSD! its not lame =P~
Yeh, but unlike SUSE, RedHat doesnt use propriety tools with hidden source code does it?
hey hey! /IS/ good hehe =P~
that
good laugh, coz its true =P ZAP!
Probably, i suspect my old 486 DX2 66 is faster then that quad processor NT server =P
Hell, if you disabled SMP support the damn linux box would still probably beat the NT box.
or better yet, skip it a bit and just get to the "DIE" bit.
actually it does have package descriptions... try F1 i think. but i know that i does.
Well, that brings other issues... I for one think alot about this shit, and its delightfully complicated! =)
The idea that the brain is a 'wet computer' seems to be to be absolutley correct, mine even has bugs =P~
Seriously though, the i'm certain that we can create "Life" from a machine, since there is nothing magical about us, there is not 'soul' or 'spirit' which we gotta have to truly 'live'.
The question really is, what exactly does something have to do to be 'alive'?
You point (which i forgot about) is that your not sure that mankind will be a kind ruler to the other beasts on our little planet.
Well, that has nothing to do with living machinery. Making intelligent machines is a natural outgrowth of computers.
Hell, mabye its already here, i get the feeling my computers has a deep and awe inspiring hatred of me.
...programmed by Al Gore =P
Ok, thats mail servers and web servers, now voice mail servers... whats next?
How about we flood the post office and see if we can shut it down =P
I totally agree with the last post...
if the bastards want to skrew with people they better have the server to back it up. =P~
I'm really glad of this turn out, i use OpenBSD and wouldnt want some scummy corperation messing with it.
Right now, there are a lot of RH users. Thats fine, right now, its the big distro and it might stay that way...
I started with Debian, found it a bit difficult, moved to slackware, found it difficult (heh.), moved to RedHat, found it easy. So i learned linux from redhat essentially, then moved back to Debian. (Then to OpenBSD, but thats not related)
My point is, once people get a little more familiar with Linux, i'll bet a lot of people are gonan go exploring the various Linux Distros for themselves. Personally, i've explored all of them that i know of (except a few RH52 varients) just for fun. It was fun actually =)
its like a little christmas each time you learn a distros kinks.
Probably (Hopefully?) others will do the same and settle on a distro that suits them, which may very will not be RH.
The (Mostly) Canadian Secure BSD =P
and my personal favorite OS
which i never miss a chance to plug.
ever.
SuSE's closed source products are going to prevent it from being a true contender with the developers.
IMHO.
Uh oh...
Then we the BSD 4.4 light varient (heh) users only path is clear...
WE MUST KILL EVERYONE WHO USES A DIFFERNT OS IN CASE THEY SPREAD THERE CRAZY FANATICISM TO US!
(yes i'm kidding)
mabye we could offer some kind of "Growing Up Howto"?
hmmm (eyes LyX)
Preach it brother =P
Just like on that propaganda.themes.org!
JFK says "The day they take linux from us is the day they tear it from our cold dead hands".
And i take that Real Seriously (TM)!!
just speading some propaganda
/The Rest
OpenBSD RULES =P
I use a Triple Boot
Win32/Linux/OpenBSD
Games/Apps
and it would be perfect if i didnt need Win32 for games.
I really like linux though, and i don't think its getting shitty or losings steam. Why not stop complaining and being fatalistic and mabye get involved with some of the Linux "Celebrities" (heh), maybe email one of them and see what they think?