BSD/OS is dead... the free BSDs like FreeBSD are not... all the people out there saying *BSD is dead just don't like competition to Linux as far as I can tell. FreeBSD is for servers, and is *NOT* dead... get over it Linux Zealots, seriously. FreeBSD will not kill Linux, and same with Linux will not kill FreeBSD.
My high school has an acceptable user policy for computer systems now. You don't sign it, you can't use the computers at school, that simple. I can't wait for my senior year at that school to start to watch the unpatched systems get msblaster or something else, there are over 600 school computers on campus, and most of them never get updated.
Actually, WinXP was built off of Win2k. Meaning Win98 was the last good release of that line. Win2k was built off of the NT line, so WinXP is no longer off the Win98 line, but off the NT line. And the "basic Win95 inspired setup" is actually just a modified Win2k look.
You do know that with minimal effort you can set the taskbar and the theme to be "Windows Classic" (or for the taskbar "Classic Start Menu") and it'll look like Windows 2k right?
Agreed. Why bother with RPMs, or apt-get, when good ole' CPAN works just fine... Try it for those of you who don't believe the CPAN module owns RPMs... it installs all dependencies for you!
I have yet to have to install 200mb using apt-get. Although I haven't played with Debian much yet, thanks to/. I am playing with it. But with the simple stuff I've installed 'vim', 'nano', and the basic stuff that didn't get installed at the beginning, I think the largest I saw was 8mb.
Why would a program on Linux "phone home" when most Linux programs are Open Source. And sure you can firewall it, ipchains, although its not as easy as it sounds.
He said he refuses to pay for something that isn't fit for any purpose. I wouldn't either. I'll download and burn something, but I refuse to pay for something that isn't fit for any purpose.
MSN is worthless anyway. IRC, AIM, or ICQ is all I need to survive in the world where "Instant Messaging is a must"... even though I find the phone/face-to-face contact to be the best method of communication.
I'm glad Oracle made this decision. It might lead other companies to follow suit and defy those SCO executives and their bull. Wonder when SCO will be in defensive mode instead of offensive.
Alternatives huh? Buy a new PC from a "respectible" computer distributor without Windows and without having to pay $2000+ for a business workstation when its a home computer (last I heard HP offers Linux on some new business workstations) and not have to buy Windows! I bought a laptop recently, and got stuck with Windows! This still exists with the larger computer distributors... that is why there's something Linux zealots like to call "OS-Tax" issued by MS for the profit of MS. I wouldn't hate them so much if they didn't charge up the ass for everything, I mean, their OS is great, but not worth $200.
I agree here. Except for the fact that between installations something might happen to the hardware, ie, an IDE cable became bent or the hard drive got too hot and melted, etc. That would suck.:)
Maybe this will be the first distro to release the 2.6 kernel as the default kernel for installation? I hope so, I've been running Windows on my laptop now because its too much of a pain to setup Linux thanks to ACPI. I hear 2.6 has a really sound ACPI module, hopefully when a distro releases using the 2.6 kernel by default, I'll be able to run Linux on my laptop.
I agree. Also with VC++ and C++, but that's a totaly different story. I agree the solution is, get rid of all the Windows boxes. My part of the home network is FreeBSD boxes and Linux boxes, they play nice together. NFS + Samba (to the rest of the family's part [Windows, unforunately]) works very nicely.
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if the people really ask that question. If they don't understand "Press any key", then they don't belong on a computer.
... ehh no.. *BSD isn't dead... just BSD/OS. Get over it, it will always serve us alongside Linux.
BSD/OS is dead... the free BSDs like FreeBSD are not... all the people out there saying *BSD is dead just don't like competition to Linux as far as I can tell. FreeBSD is for servers, and is *NOT* dead... get over it Linux Zealots, seriously. FreeBSD will not kill Linux, and same with Linux will not kill FreeBSD.
My first question is why did they allow this to happen?
And also Windows XP Professional.
My high school has an acceptable user policy for computer systems now. You don't sign it, you can't use the computers at school, that simple. I can't wait for my senior year at that school to start to watch the unpatched systems get msblaster or something else, there are over 600 school computers on campus, and most of them never get updated.
But people, thanks to the GPL license, can modify Linux in any way pretty much to make it attack Microsoft in the Desktop and/or Server markets.
Actually, WinXP was built off of Win2k. Meaning Win98 was the last good release of that line. Win2k was built off of the NT line, so WinXP is no longer off the Win98 line, but off the NT line. And the "basic Win95 inspired setup" is actually just a modified Win2k look.
You do know that with minimal effort you can set the taskbar and the theme to be "Windows Classic" (or for the taskbar "Classic Start Menu") and it'll look like Windows 2k right?
Agreed. Why bother with RPMs, or apt-get, when good ole' CPAN works just fine...
Try it for those of you who don't believe the CPAN module owns RPMs... it installs all dependencies for you!
I have yet to have to install 200mb using apt-get. Although I haven't played with Debian much yet, thanks to /. I am playing with it. But with the simple stuff I've installed 'vim', 'nano', and the basic stuff that didn't get installed at the beginning, I think the largest I saw was 8mb.
Why would a program on Linux "phone home" when most Linux programs are Open Source. And sure you can firewall it, ipchains, although its not as easy as it sounds.
He said he refuses to pay for something that isn't fit for any purpose. I wouldn't either. I'll download and burn something, but I refuse to pay for something that isn't fit for any purpose.
MSN is worthless anyway. IRC, AIM, or ICQ is all I need to survive in the world where "Instant Messaging is a must"... even though I find the phone/face-to-face contact to be the best method of communication.
You breathe more fumes riding a bike as the cars pass you than you do while inside a car thanks to air filters.
I'm glad Oracle made this decision. It might lead other companies to follow suit and defy those SCO executives and their bull. Wonder when SCO will be in defensive mode instead of offensive.
Alternatives huh? Buy a new PC from a "respectible" computer distributor without Windows and without having to pay $2000+ for a business workstation when its a home computer (last I heard HP offers Linux on some new business workstations) and not have to buy Windows! I bought a laptop recently, and got stuck with Windows! This still exists with the larger computer distributors... that is why there's something Linux zealots like to call "OS-Tax" issued by MS for the profit of MS. I wouldn't hate them so much if they didn't charge up the ass for everything, I mean, their OS is great, but not worth $200.
What's cheaper than free???
"Wine Is Not an Emulator"
Hrm... could we look forward to KDE .Com? Competition to Microsoft's .Net? So then all their apps begin with 'K' and end with '.Com'.
I agree here. Except for the fact that between installations something might happen to the hardware, ie, an IDE cable became bent or the hard drive got too hot and melted, etc. That would suck. :)
True... who is stopping you from printing a "Glossmark" on a modified version of the "hard copy" anyway??
Maybe this will be the first distro to release the 2.6 kernel as the default kernel for installation? I hope so, I've been running Windows on my laptop now because its too much of a pain to setup Linux thanks to ACPI. I hear 2.6 has a really sound ACPI module, hopefully when a distro releases using the 2.6 kernel by default, I'll be able to run Linux on my laptop.
I agree. Also with VC++ and C++, but that's a totaly different story. I agree the solution is, get rid of all the Windows boxes. My part of the home network is FreeBSD boxes and Linux boxes, they play nice together. NFS + Samba (to the rest of the family's part [Windows, unforunately]) works very nicely.
The greatness of being an American.. too stupid to know the metric system (even though it is completely 10 based).