This brings up the catch-22 of Linux gaming. The only way that developers will create games for Linux is if they see widespread acceptance of Linux as a gaming platform; they need to eat after all. Unfortunately, the only way that Linux will gain widespread acceptance as a gaming platform is if great games are released for it. And so, as the post above suggests, developers need go out on a limb and publish kick-ass Linux (only?) games before the vicious cycle can be broken.
I think the point of the Live CD is to let people use these tools without having to actually install Linux on their computer. Versions of all of these tools are available with pretty much every other Linux distro. It's just a way to use this software without dedicating a machine, or even part of a machine to Linux.
to be "SAN"? I can't think of a worse way to tell someone that you love them. Whatever happened to sending flowers?
Which makes me wonder if this was the only way for the writer to contact SAN. Perhaps she had moved to another country or disconnected her phone and the only thing Jackass McWormerson could think of was communicating through a computer virus.
Although Linux offers a low-cost alternative to Windows in many situations, there's almost nothing cheaper than the pirated copies of Windows that India and the rest of Asia is rife with.
Although this article says that "About 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004...", my guess is when you count all of the existing Windows systems in India and all of the computers that will be running pirated versions of Windows by March, 2004, the Linux market share starts to look pretty darn small.
I agree. The #1 barrier to the success of this kind of technology is user laziness. When you visit a search engine, you don't want to be the one to provide results.
I believe the two biggest of the "Last Century's Big Money-Related Innovations" were Bling-Bling and its predecessor, Bling. I was disappointed at their exclusion from the list.
It's like I always tell the kids. A quitter never wins and don't trust whitey.
Prof.: Not necessarily. This is a chance for Fry to test out
my experimental anti-pressure pill.
[He produces a huge pill]
Fry: I can't swallow that!
Prof.: Well then, good news! It's a suppository.
They'd be trying to kill us no matter what we did. If we withdrew from the Middle East they'd hate us for our cultural influence. There are always more reasons to hate for people like that - trying to appease them is useless.
All the U.S. has to do to appease Middle Eastern Terrorist organizations is magically vanish from the face of the earth. From there The States can begin stealing each Westernized country a la Carmen Sandiago. When all of us zany infidels are gone, Arab countries around the world (now isolated in the middle of a vast ocean) can use up all of their natural resources and starve to death like they've always wanted!
I agree completely. This test is misleading because Linux is simply harder to use than Windows. This is due to the fact that Linux provides functionality outside of the GUI. Larning about the KDE desktop won't teach you about Linux as a whole. Sure KDE is almost as easy to use as Windows, but what happens when the computer won't boot because the / filesystem is damaged? Trying to cover up the internals of an operating system is not a good way to get people to use said OS.
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I wouldn't recommend holding your breath.
I think the point of the Live CD is to let people use these tools without having to actually install Linux on their computer. Versions of all of these tools are available with pretty much every other Linux distro. It's just a way to use this software without dedicating a machine, or even part of a machine to Linux.
Which makes me wonder if this was the only way for the writer to contact SAN. Perhaps she had moved to another country or disconnected her phone and the only thing Jackass McWormerson could think of was communicating through a computer virus.
Although this article says that "About 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004...", my guess is when you count all of the existing Windows systems in India and all of the computers that will be running pirated versions of Windows by March, 2004, the Linux market share starts to look pretty darn small.
I agree. The #1 barrier to the success of this kind of technology is user laziness. When you visit a search engine, you don't want to be the one to provide results.
It's like I always tell the kids. A quitter never wins and don't trust whitey.
Prof.: Not necessarily. This is a chance for Fry to test out my experimental anti-pressure pill. [He produces a huge pill] Fry: I can't swallow that! Prof.: Well then, good news! It's a suppository.
All the U.S. has to do to appease Middle Eastern Terrorist organizations is magically vanish from the face of the earth. From there The States can begin stealing each Westernized country a la Carmen Sandiago. When all of us zany infidels are gone, Arab countries around the world (now isolated in the middle of a vast ocean) can use up all of their natural resources and starve to death like they've always wanted!
I agree completely. This test is misleading because Linux is simply harder to use than Windows. This is due to the fact that Linux provides functionality outside of the GUI. Larning about the KDE desktop won't teach you about Linux as a whole. Sure KDE is almost as easy to use as Windows, but what happens when the computer won't boot because the / filesystem is damaged? Trying to cover up the internals of an operating system is not a good way to get people to use said OS.
Microsoft != MPAA
After all, isn't that the orginization we are here to bash?