It is as credible as any mass media. But that's not all that credible. U have to decide for yourself. Peronally, if I really want to know what's going on in the US or the world, I ask friends.
Microsoft doesn't just abandon old platforms and forget about compatibility like apple does. They've made huge changes twice, first with RISC and now with OS X. If microsoft could forget about all of the apps and all of the people who understand the OS they could make Windows so much faster, cooler, and more stable. They, however, are loyal to their old platforms, and still have the best OS in the world.
This is not to say that I am a total Microsoft lover. In its current implementation it is the best OS avaliable at least for desktop computing. Linux is relatively new in destop computing, and OS 9 lacked pre-emptive multitasking and virtual memory. Frankly, it sucked.
I like gnome. It is the bomb. It doesn't give me the finger everytime I move the mouse like KDE does. KDE can be annoying. The finger pops up on the start button, everything.
The foot menu is way cooler than the K menu
I am testing nautilus, and it's great, except when you remotely access the computer. Over my school's network (from engineering building to dorm), it is soooooo slooooow.
Something really funny happened today. I was using Netscape 6 under GNOME (like I still am) to play Yahoo Chess (java). One of the five people I played wanted to talk. I announced that I was using Linux. I said, are you using windows? It was pretty obvious. He said yes, why? Then I talked about the advantages of Linux. I distracted him! After the very next move I got his queen. Ha ha freaknasty!!!!
I am a linux fan, but have you ever read dot-truth.com? There are links to magazines that tell about the problems of Sun computers. It took forever for them to get ECC ready, while it's been on Intel's for years.
Sparc is a lousy processor. 400 megahertz? And software support and development problems are also bad.
Solaris is so stripped down and has an inferior program for each part of it. Commercial X, csh, plain old vi, etc. are standard and it does not have standard Linux tools like Gimp. I would rather have a server which is similar to the workstation. My whole school is Sun, it's Northern Arizona University, and they have the slowest network! They do have Windows Workstations, but the Sun computers in the CSE lab are ridiculous! They don't have anything that have become standard in Linux distributions. How will we ever be taught about the high level programs the end user deals with or the websites, when we don't even have a graphics tool comparable to Microsoft Paint. Let us have Linux and Oracle/mySQL, GIMP, bash, word processing/office programs, multimedia, etc.
Sun computers are expensive, unreliable, slow, of a bad design, and are falling more behind each day. 500 MHz? A whole bunch of CPU's in one box? Scale out, not up.
Each person who ties their company into Sun is tying themselves in to ridiculously expensive proprietary technology. Amazon is now on Linux. For selling, hosting static pages, sharing information, databases, etc, Linux or Windows 2000 rules!
running an open-source OS. The G4 Cube with a 15" flat panel would be totally awesome.
It's worked for quite a while.
I don't mind the apple lawsuits. Why do so many people think they have to copy them? There are so many varations in design besides all in one translucent boxes. How about making a truly convergent PC based on ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder?
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think that was interesting, that is.
It is as credible as any mass media. But that's not all that credible. U have to decide for yourself. Peronally, if I really want to know what's going on in the US or the world, I ask friends.
This is not to say that I am a total Microsoft lover. In its current implementation it is the best OS avaliable at least for desktop computing. Linux is relatively new in destop computing, and OS 9 lacked pre-emptive multitasking and virtual memory. Frankly, it sucked.
Cyborg Monkey was probably the one that posted this, under a different name, to try to gain popularity.
Could you provide a link to www.goatse.cx if you're going to mention goatsex so someone new could find out what it's all about?
The foot menu is way cooler than the K menu
I am testing nautilus, and it's great, except when you remotely access the computer. Over my school's network (from engineering building to dorm), it is soooooo slooooow.
Something really funny happened today. I was using Netscape 6 under GNOME (like I still am) to play Yahoo Chess (java). One of the five people I played wanted to talk. I announced that I was using Linux. I said, are you using windows? It was pretty obvious. He said yes, why? Then I talked about the advantages of Linux. I distracted him! After the very next move I got his queen. Ha ha freaknasty!!!!
Linux is cooler than sliced bread.
Whoa, only $5? Are you kidding? I get my pants from goodwill for $.25
It'll actually have network support & an HD built in. They could probably hack it into fast graphics and simulation computers.
Sparc is a lousy processor. 400 megahertz? And software support and development problems are also bad.
Solaris is so stripped down and has an inferior program for each part of it. Commercial X, csh, plain old vi, etc. are standard and it does not have standard Linux tools like Gimp. I would rather have a server which is similar to the workstation. My whole school is Sun, it's Northern Arizona University, and they have the slowest network! They do have Windows Workstations, but the Sun computers in the CSE lab are ridiculous! They don't have anything that have become standard in Linux distributions. How will we ever be taught about the high level programs the end user deals with or the websites, when we don't even have a graphics tool comparable to Microsoft Paint. Let us have Linux and Oracle/mySQL, GIMP, bash, word processing/office programs, multimedia, etc.
Sun computers are expensive, unreliable, slow, of a bad design, and are falling more behind each day. 500 MHz? A whole bunch of CPU's in one box? Scale out, not up.
Each person who ties their company into Sun is tying themselves in to ridiculously expensive proprietary technology. Amazon is now on Linux. For selling, hosting static pages, sharing information, databases, etc, Linux or Windows 2000 rules!
Die, Commercial Unix!!!!!!!!
I just had to say that, seeing your email address
It's worked for quite a while.
I don't mind the apple lawsuits. Why do so many people think they have to copy them? There are so many varations in design besides all in one translucent boxes. How about making a truly convergent PC based on ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder?
Too much like Microsoft.NET?