Nah, on XP I have to dig up my Dell network drivers from somewhere to get the onboard Ethernet working. On Linux, it just works with e100.
Aren't anecdotes fun?
Not from an individual workstation's perspective, no. But administering a bunch of Linux boxes is a lot easier than with Windows. That's where TCO comes into play.
Windows isn't given more credit because it's crap. To put it in perspective, if Windows is a 1 in terms of security, Linux is a 10 and OpenBSD is a 12.
See dh003i's post.
they monkey hasn't exhibited any other signs of evolution
You do realize that evolution takes millions of years, right? A change in one individual of a species is emphatically NOT evolution unless it is passed down.
The real advantage of bipedalism is that it frees the hands to do things like make and use tools.
Linux is totally appropriate for a secure desktop system. OpenBSD is for insanely secure servers. The BSDs tend to lack the hardware support of Linux too and other things that just make Linux nicer for desktops.
Sure, but I have yet to find a GTK theme that looks decent. Any recommendations for something that would blend well with Plastik? Just something simple, light and clean. The GTK-Qt engine is still very buggy.
All that can be done with simple permissions - restricting the users to a home directory. If you want to ensure a "fresh" machine, just rm -rf the home directory on each login. No need for all this "ghosting" crap.
And if it's Flash helping the content and functionality you want, go to www.broadmoor.com [broadmoor.com] and click 'reservations.' Show me a _single_ web technology that can do all of that without having to combine ten other technologies and looking the same in all browsers.
PS: It doesn't render correctly with mozilla-firefox and version 7 of the flash for linux player.
Yeah...the first screen looks fine, but if I click "enter the flash site", all I get is an empty black sidebar on the left and a large blank white section on the right.
There's something funky when a one time boot up OS like Knoppix does a better job than Windows XP...
That's been my experience too. In Windows XP, my onboard network card requires a special driver. In Linux? The card works perfectly with the good old e100 driver. Go figure.
On the other hand, Linux is definitely behind in terms of wireless networking. Graphics card drivers aren't great either. Actually, that's not entirely true...my monitor works at 75Hz with the nvidia driver in linux (as it should), but Windows absolutely refuses to even try to go over 60Hz, no matter what I do.
even though people are likely to use more webmail and less client-based mail in the future
There's no reason you can't use "webmail" from within a client. GMail is reportedly considering an IMAP interface, and even if that never happens, you can bet that someone will write a Thunderbird extension to support GMail accounts. Hell, I'd be writing that extension right now if I had a GMail account:)
They would be very stupid to say a word about Firefox, just like they're being stupid to run ads against Linux. It gives their competitor an air of legitimacy.
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But there is no "credit" to begin with when it has not been peer-reviewed and replicated. That's how good science works.
Sun's CDE is freely available?
Nah, on XP I have to dig up my Dell network drivers from somewhere to get the onboard Ethernet working. On Linux, it just works with e100.
Aren't anecdotes fun?
Not from an individual workstation's perspective, no. But administering a bunch of Linux boxes is a lot easier than with Windows. That's where TCO comes into play.
Windows isn't given more credit because it's crap. To put it in perspective, if Windows is a 1 in terms of security, Linux is a 10 and OpenBSD is a 12.
See dh003i's post.
You do realize that evolution takes millions of years, right? A change in one individual of a species is emphatically NOT evolution unless it is passed down.
The real advantage of bipedalism is that it frees the hands to do things like make and use tools.
Linux is totally appropriate for a secure desktop system. OpenBSD is for insanely secure servers. The BSDs tend to lack the hardware support of Linux too and other things that just make Linux nicer for desktops.
Read that again:
A rapid outburst or barrage: a fusillade of insults.
I'm quite sure Mr. Bush is capable of ignoring the opposition on his own. It's the media that they don't want capturing shots of protestors near Bush.
Sure, but I have yet to find a GTK theme that looks decent. Any recommendations for something that would blend well with Plastik? Just something simple, light and clean. The GTK-Qt engine is still very buggy.
All that can be done with simple permissions - restricting the users to a home directory. If you want to ensure a "fresh" machine, just rm -rf the home directory on each login. No need for all this "ghosting" crap.
GTK2 is still ugly compared to Qt.
Java applet. That wasn't so hard, was it?
Um, you're right. That's because it's been done already. PPC is one of the best-supported architectures after x86 on Gentoo. PPC64 is there too.
http://packages.gentoo.org/
640 CPUs are enough for anyone? :)
Yeah...the first screen looks fine, but if I click "enter the flash site", all I get is an empty black sidebar on the left and a large blank white section on the right.
Works in Konqueror, though.
americans...don't see in social networking a big thing.
Wow. If my enemies list wasn't full of assholes already, you'd be on there. Please add me to your enemies so I can ignore your moronic posts :)
That's been my experience too. In Windows XP, my onboard network card requires a special driver. In Linux? The card works perfectly with the good old e100 driver. Go figure.
On the other hand, Linux is definitely behind in terms of wireless networking. Graphics card drivers aren't great either. Actually, that's not entirely true...my monitor works at 75Hz with the nvidia driver in linux (as it should), but Windows absolutely refuses to even try to go over 60Hz, no matter what I do.
I don't think once every few months would count as "a lot". That's about how often a new stable kernel is released.
There's also this thing called a GUI on *BSD...did you not know that? You can run everything from twm to KDE.
Maybe, but their server sure isn't.
There's no reason you can't use "webmail" from within a client. GMail is reportedly considering an IMAP interface, and even if that never happens, you can bet that someone will write a Thunderbird extension to support GMail accounts. Hell, I'd be writing that extension right now if I had a GMail account :)
They would be very stupid to say a word about Firefox, just like they're being stupid to run ads against Linux. It gives their competitor an air of legitimacy.
Kafka wrote more than one famous short story, you know ;-)