Opera Ver 7.11 is without doubt the best browser there is for Windows.
But getting my wife off Netscape 4.76 and onto Opera took a lot of proof that it works well.
Even Opera 7.10 didn't work perfectly on some of the [weird] sites she'd regularly visit, but Opera 7.11 is not only faster, it is much more reliable than IE 6 or Netscape.
Mozilla runs exceptionally slow on her K6-2 400Mhz computer, while Opera flies.
She also has a laptop with a Pentium 133Mhz processor and Opera has no problems.
I personally use the "MacOSXVolter" skin for Opera in Windows and Linux on my computers and recommend people who love the MacOSX GUI have a look at this skin.
Well I play CounterStrike online for at least 40 minutes every day.
I don't have any friends who share my interest in this game. Some like to watch, but none care to have a go at playing.
Your statment is very subject theory and baseless.
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Open Source: Apache, PHP
I didn't mention Open Source, and I'm not sure what your implying. Without FreeBSD and Linux, we would be stuck with Microsoft and the orginal Mac OS, so you could say Open Source helps push proprietory software along...just look at Mac OSX
Compared to MS Windows, Open Source provides: STABILITY, SECURITY
Open Source does not need to innovate, although it does in virtually every field. Even if Open Source did not innovate, we have lots of great products, we just need to get the bugs out!
What do you mean, none of it's promised advantages?
Java applets do work on MS Windows based computers, but you have to install a newer version of Microsoft Internet Explorer and a Sun JRE yourself.
Essentially Microsoft screwed Sun by "enhancing" Java so that MS enhanced Java is NOT CROSS PLATFORM and MS also deliberately kept behind on Java technology. When Java was up to Ver 1.3, which is VERY ADVANCED, MS only supported 1.1 on I.E. 5+
I could go on all day about the bullshit I'd been through working with Java on MS products... but I'll work myself into a rage and probably go look for a dog to kick.
When business' that lose over $50,000 a minute due to down time this simply is not good enough.
Try running X windows on clients to a Solaris/Linux/Unix box.
For MS Windows, using Cygwin, it's free if you don't need support. If you don't need apps that run on Windows, then you can use Linux/BSD on client computers which is also very cheap if you don't need support.
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If Apple didn't implement Xerox's windows would Microsoft have created a version?
If Apple hadn't invented multi-media for micro-computers would Microsoft have it's own implementation?
Microsoft haven't done any (apart from Word for Mac, then later Windows) inventing of their own, and what they have done, has always been a poor copy!.NET is a perfect example.
Apple should reconsider what they offer to their customers. Providing hardware and a matching OS is one thing, but applications, as someone has pointed out already, enters Microsoft type activity.
Adobe Premiere users will have no reason to stay with Apple now and that's the bottom line!
The interview clearly shows that the issue between SCO and IBM has nothing to do with Linux in general.
The trivial bits of code which SCO probably added themselves during the Caldera era does not currently affect Linux or it's distributions.
If SCO miraculously wins an injunction against distributions with the copyrighted code, it will be easily rectified.
Furthermore, if it is proven that Caldera actually introduced the disputed code, which can be verified by looking at past distributions, they should have their pants sued of them.
If Apple had release at least a dozen G5's to various internet review sites that specialized on hardware, and specified which benchmarks they MUST include, none of this anger would be directed at Apple.
Instead, well see the true prejudice these so called "unbiased" hardware review sites have towards all things NOT within their interests.
I would have given the first box to amdzone.com. Then everyone could blast them for their subjective view on all things not AMD, and leave Apple alone, or even console them for being the victim.
If you just want to play with Linux, Mandrake should be your only choice.
If you need to test or develop on Linux, Mandrake will have you up and running in less than an hour.
If you need a SERIOUS Linux box, Mandrake can be customized to suit aswell, but here it has few advantages over other distributions time wise. Although you get to work in reverse to say Debian.
I personally can not recommend it over say Suse or Debian for a life-or-death server, but for everyone else, it's just plain awesome. Give it time and Mandrake will give us a brilliant server installation as well.
Simply put, Mandrake ROX, and all the best to them.
I'm waiting till people can actually test the G5 and see if they feel that their "hard earned cash" was well spent or not.
I'm not interested whether the Dual Opteron is faster in benchmarks. I want to know whether the new G5 can do the job better or not. This obviously includes such things as MacOSX, available applications, stability (reboot and redoing work), maintanence (virus checking and security updates), etc.
If Opteron based systems ran MacOSX or an equivalently supported OS, then benchmarks would be one of many deciding factors.
Well you can forget about boarding an airplane with a flammable liquid for starters.
As for the printer industry. If your stupid enough to go for the cheapest printer without researching the TCO, well you deserve what you get!
Competition will force at least some of the manufacturers to make their cartridges refillable. The rest will attract the "chumps" as the printer industry and mobile phone carriers still do.
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First of all, some background. SuSE Linux Desktop (SLD) is one of several SuSE distributions that could be considered end-user oriented: there's also SuSE Linux Office Desktop, aimed at small businesses, as well as the standard SuSE Linux Personal and Professional editions. The key difference with SLD is it uses the same code base as SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): this is intended to fulfil the needs of large businesses, with an 18-month release schedule (instead of twice a year, like SuSE's other software) and five years of support. It is binary-compatible with SuSE Linux 8.1, meaning you should be able to install any application that's been packaged for that OS version with no problems.
So much for the "Linux commercial support not being available" argument.
What is required on a commercial OS is immediate support, not a week or month from "mailing lists" which might have the wrong solution aswell.
You probably won't believe this, but larger companies do not upgrade every 6 months. Any server put in today, needs to run up to 5 years. What holes will be uncovered in you version of Linux/FreeBSD, and who will provide commercial quality (i.e. vigorously tested) patches?
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What do you mean "had"?
Opera Ver 7.11 is without doubt the best browser there is for Windows.
But getting my wife off Netscape 4.76 and onto Opera took a lot of proof that it works well.
Even Opera 7.10 didn't work perfectly on some of the [weird] sites she'd regularly visit, but Opera 7.11 is not only faster, it is much more reliable than IE 6 or Netscape.
Mozilla runs exceptionally slow on her K6-2 400Mhz computer, while Opera flies.
She also has a laptop with a Pentium 133Mhz processor and Opera has no problems.
I personally use the "MacOSXVolter" skin for Opera in Windows and Linux on my computers and recommend people who love the MacOSX GUI have a look at this skin.
Why would end users need to know Linux?
Wouldn't it be better to lock down a users computer so they can not change a thing, whether it was Windows or Linux?
End users just need to know how to start, stop, use the apps you write and what to do if they freeze.
Well I play CounterStrike online for at least 40 minutes every day.
I don't have any friends who share my interest in this game. Some like to watch, but none care to have a go at playing.
Your statment is very subject theory and baseless.
Open Source: Apache, PHP
I didn't mention Open Source, and I'm not sure what your implying. Without FreeBSD and Linux, we would be stuck with Microsoft and the orginal Mac OS, so you could say Open Source helps push proprietory software along...just look at Mac OSX
Compared to MS Windows, Open Source provides: STABILITY, SECURITY
Open Source does not need to innovate, although it does in virtually every field. Even if Open Source did not innovate, we have lots of great products, we just need to get the bugs out!
You obvious didn't use MS Word 4 on a Mac circa 1986.
Trust me, it rocked, but not as much as laser printers or the Mac OS.
I hear suff like this a lot. I used WP4.2 back then (currently use WP8) and it could not hold a candle to the MS offering.
As for marketing Dell is the hardware equivalent to MS. They don't innovate jack!
What do you mean, none of it's promised advantages?
... but I'll work myself into a rage and probably go look for a dog to kick.
Java applets do work on MS Windows based computers, but you have to install a newer version of Microsoft Internet Explorer and a Sun JRE yourself.
Essentially Microsoft screwed Sun by "enhancing" Java so that MS enhanced Java is NOT CROSS PLATFORM and MS also deliberately kept behind on Java technology. When Java was up to Ver 1.3, which is VERY ADVANCED, MS only supported 1.1 on I.E. 5+
I could go on all day about the bullshit I'd been through working with Java on MS products
And other times, how long do you go for?
This is a joke, right?
When business' that lose over $50,000 a minute due to down time this simply is not good enough.
Try running X windows on clients to a Solaris/Linux/Unix box.
For MS Windows, using Cygwin, it's free if you don't need support. If you don't need apps that run on Windows, then you can use Linux/BSD on client computers which is also very cheap if you don't need support.
If Apple didn't implement Xerox's windows would Microsoft have created a version?
.NET is a perfect example.
If Apple hadn't invented multi-media for micro-computers would Microsoft have it's own implementation?
Microsoft haven't done any (apart from Word for Mac, then later Windows) inventing of their own, and what they have done, has always been a poor copy!
Could be something to do with licensing, or possibly some performance issues.
Corel had a few versions of their Linux software, such as Wordperfect, yanked and no mention of them ever again.
There are greater forces at work here.
Not if customers want to keep using Adobe Premiere, no need for Apple hardware or software anymore!
Apple have made a bad, VERY BAD move here.
Without applications any platform is doomed.
Apple should reconsider what they offer to their customers. Providing hardware and a matching OS is one thing, but applications, as someone has pointed out already, enters Microsoft type activity.
Adobe Premiere users will have no reason to stay with Apple now and that's the bottom line!
The interview clearly shows that the issue between SCO and IBM has nothing to do with Linux in general.
The trivial bits of code which SCO probably added themselves during the Caldera era does not currently affect Linux or it's distributions.
If SCO miraculously wins an injunction against distributions with the copyrighted code, it will be easily rectified.
Furthermore, if it is proven that Caldera actually introduced the disputed code, which can be verified by looking at past distributions, they should have their pants sued of them.
What a load of rubbish. If Ma or Pa Average have the cash, they should have no problems with a Dual Processor Mac.
Don't think for a second they would consider a Solaris based box, or find many uses for it. Where does one plug in the Camera?
Certainly Windows workstations could be seen a competitor at a slightly higher price, but how many consumer application are optimized Windows SMP?
This is about the END USER, not servers or professionals in a highly specialized field.
And as for Opterons, there are no motherboards with an AGP port.
If Apple had release at least a dozen G5's to various internet review sites that specialized on hardware, and specified which benchmarks they MUST include, none of this anger would be directed at Apple.
Instead, well see the true prejudice these so called "unbiased" hardware review sites have towards all things NOT within their interests.
I would have given the first box to amdzone.com. Then everyone could blast them for their subjective view on all things not AMD, and leave Apple alone, or even console them for being the victim.
Note how no-one here at Slashdot ever THANK Sun for buying StarOffice, then putting it out for free (Ver 5x and latter) as OpenOffice.
Sun never gets any credit for anything. They gave us JAVA and made Linux viable.
Could it possibly be that maybe you have a faulty computer, you can't install Linux properly or both.
And I notice you don't mention any applications. Exploiting a KNOWN bug does not make Linux unstable.
Using your logic, Windows would be absolutely useless, as Windows has ten bugs for every Linux bug.
If you just want to play with Linux, Mandrake should be your only choice.
If you need to test or develop on Linux, Mandrake will have you up and running in less than an hour.
If you need a SERIOUS Linux box, Mandrake can be customized to suit aswell, but here it has few advantages over other distributions time wise. Although you get to work in reverse to say Debian.
I personally can not recommend it over say Suse or Debian for a life-or-death server, but for everyone else, it's just plain awesome. Give it time and Mandrake will give us a brilliant server installation as well.
Simply put, Mandrake ROX, and all the best to them.
I'm waiting till people can actually test the G5 and see if they feel that their "hard earned cash" was well spent or not.
I'm not interested whether the Dual Opteron is faster in benchmarks. I want to know whether the new G5 can do the job better or not. This obviously includes such things as MacOSX, available applications, stability (reboot and redoing work), maintanence (virus checking and security updates), etc.
If Opteron based systems ran MacOSX or an equivalently supported OS, then benchmarks would be one of many deciding factors.
The rest is just tripe.
Well you can forget about boarding an airplane with a flammable liquid for starters.
As for the printer industry. If your stupid enough to go for the cheapest printer without researching the TCO, well you deserve what you get!
Competition will force at least some of the manufacturers to make their cartridges refillable. The rest will attract the "chumps" as the printer industry and mobile phone carriers still do.
First of all, some background. SuSE Linux Desktop (SLD) is one of several SuSE distributions that could be considered end-user oriented: there's also SuSE Linux Office Desktop, aimed at small businesses, as well as the standard SuSE Linux Personal and Professional editions. The key difference with SLD is it uses the same code base as SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): this is intended to fulfil the needs of large businesses, with an 18-month release schedule (instead of twice a year, like SuSE's other software) and five years of support. It is binary-compatible with SuSE Linux 8.1, meaning you should be able to install any application that's been packaged for that OS version with no problems.
So much for the "Linux commercial support not being available" argument.
AIX has available support.
What is required on a commercial OS is immediate support, not a week or month from "mailing lists" which might have the wrong solution aswell.
You probably won't believe this, but larger companies do not upgrade every 6 months. Any server put in today, needs to run up to 5 years. What holes will be uncovered in you version of Linux/FreeBSD, and who will provide commercial quality (i.e. vigorously tested) patches?
This ANONYMOUS COWARD is spreading FUD.
THEN he replies to himself saying it's true.
Sun wants Microsoft to distribute the JRE, which is easily downloadable by any tech savy person, with Windows!
Unfortunately, like yourself, most people have no idea.
Try writing a "graphically rich" applet for all browsers on all computers platforms, INCLUDING older versions of IE (4 and up).