FreeDOS included in the box, ready to be installed, or Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux WS
"Please note that the Red Hat(R) Linux operating system offered on Dell Precision systems is Dell factory-installed and therefore will receive the same support as other Dell factory-installed operating systems."
Some tools just make developing certain kinds of applications more efficient, take VisualBasic for example. There's not much else that can compare to the RAD capabilities of VB.
That just show how far from reality M$ as dragged you. Delphi is a lot better at this than VB and you can have the same on Linux with Kylix
By the way, they even have a free version with about the only requirement is that you release your program under the GPL.
And don't get me started on why VB is bullshit, regardless of being an M$ product.
If you had told me back in 1982, when I was programming in M$-BASIC on my first computer (COCO2) that I would still be coding in BASIC 20 years later, I would have laugh to death
BASIC whas a shitty language in 1982. Thanks to M$, is still is today;-)
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when did Samsung start making computers???
Around 1987. I was selling PC-XT from them that year.
If I was still selling computers, I would dump them this very second.
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Just tell that to the millions of poor peoples getting infected every week with the latest virus.
I want Linux on my desktop, and I want it to be as easy as windows in term of hardware support from the different vendors
WinFX sounds too trivial for use with an extensive programming product. Traditionally, "FX" has been used to signify "effects".
Just wait untill one machine crash in your network, effectively crashing all the other machines around, then you'll know why they choosed FX
I'm still printing all my code listing on my old 9-pins printer. I bought it in 1987 and it just keeps on printing
;)
Sometimes, I also powerup my ColorComputer2, which is even older than my printer, but I don't really use it on a regular basis like the printer.
On the other hand... I maybe the oldes hardware I'm still using
Some tools just make developing certain kinds of applications more efficient, take VisualBasic for example. There's not much else that can compare to the RAD capabilities of VB.
That just show how far from reality M$ as dragged you. Delphi is a lot better at this than VB and you can have the same on Linux with Kylix
By the way, they even have a free version with about the only requirement is that you release your program under the GPL.
And don't get me started on why VB is bullshit, regardless of being an M$ product.
If you had told me back in 1982, when I was programming in M$-BASIC on my first computer (COCO2) that I would still be coding in BASIC 20 years later, I would have laugh to death
BASIC whas a shitty language in 1982. Thanks to M$, is still is today ;-)
Well, maybe because OpenOffice already got a spreadsheet
Watch for Microsoft operating systems to be more prone to virii in the future.
And you really think it's possible ?
After all, the very words "cross-platform" are considered blasphemy to the folks at Redmond
No, it's just that for them it means "working on Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP"