Yeah, whatever.... come live here and then we'll talk! Show me what "half the population" that is and we'll talk... remember that with a fraud and total control of the voting council and imigration anybody can win! Believe me, it's easy!
(it's also very easy to support or criticize something from far away, just like leftist french who support the Cuban regime... right, they support and defend it while living in Paris, of course, but they don't have to stand that shit because they don't live in Cuba like the Cubans! They wouldn't be caught dead outside Paris! Just the same, it's very easy to support Chavez while living in the USA or something, enjoying our oil! And don't get me wrong, I'm not the anti American type at all --gotta love New York City!--, I just hate that attitude; want to defend Chavez? Come donw here and spend some time with his foot up your ass to see if you'll still like him!). In fact... "we'll talk"? I'm not wasting any more time at this... 'nuff said, so there!
I am from Venezuela and I can tell you that this *dictator* does not believe in anything that has to do with freedom.... what else could you expect from a failed military whose only jump into popularity were two disastrous, bloody and failed coupes? And he calls the oppsition "coup plotters"..... hahahahahahaha!!!!
Well, more on the linux front, I have no faith what so ever on the initiative, everything they've done has always had a "reason behind it", if you know what I mean... maybe it is getting more discounts from microsoft, as someone here already said, but that would raise the question "why?", since practically every single piece f software you can find here is pirated.... I can bet on it and cut my veins that if you walk into any public office of your choosing you will *not* find a single valid Windows and/or Office installation, so what's with the "saving money" part about? I believe it's more of an idealistic pose, unfortunately we're full of those here and it's trash, believe me! I mean, how can you interpret the "Muammar Gadaffi Human Rights Award"???? This ditator was awarded with it, and if that's not a pose then I don't know what wolrd we're living in!!!
'nuf said, so there!
Hey guys, thanks to both for your replies clarifying what MorphOS is. I've certainly heard before about the Amiga platform and its OS, but if truth be told I don't know much about it either. I was just curious about what could have seemed as an entirely *new* OS because as far as I know through out the computing era the number of *pure* (because of a lack of a better word) OSs has been relatively low. Lets see, how many do we have? Classic Mac OS from version 1 up to 9, DOS and derivatives (up to Windows ME), Windows NT and derivatives (including XP and 2003 Server), OS/2 (closely related to NT but usually considered a separeted brew), VMS and succesors, NetWare (could that be considered an OS on its own, or has it always been based on DOS?), Amiga and last but *most* certainly not least, UNIX and all its derivatives (namely Linux, all the BSDs --including Darwin-- Solaris, Minix, HP-UX, AIX, Unicos and so on, and so on, and so on...). How many does that count give us? 8, or maybe even 6 if NetWare is packed inside the DOS variants and and OS/2 is packed inside the NT variants. A relatively low number indeed, and if you consider that some of them are fading away and disappearing... it seemed all that much more interesting to see a complely new player in this ball park. Personally I think that in the end we'll only have NT based systems (like Windows XP, Longhorn, 2003 Server and others to come) and UNIX descendants, what do you think? Classic Mac OS will disappear, so will DOS based systems because of Microsoft's push towards NT based ones, VMS is practically gone, IBM anounced some months ago the end of the OS/2 project, and NetWare seems to be loosing market share at incredible speeds (but I'm not too aware of the life that it still has inside). That leaves us only with three: Amiga (of which I know practically nothing; is it fading away as well?), NT and UNIX. If Amiga says good bye then we'll only have the two with which I sarted my argument. I don't know, that's how I see it; what do you guys make of it? Anyhow, thanks again for the clarifications...
Does anyone know for real what type of OS this is? Is it just another UNIX based OS (with Kernel, shell, accounts and all the repertoire) or something completely of its own like classic Mac OS (pre X) and Window$$? Call me ignorant if you may but it's the first time I've ever heard of it and I went through the web site but couldn't find much information. So, what gives?
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Yeah, whatever.... come live here and then we'll talk! Show me what "half the population" that is and we'll talk... remember that with a fraud and total control of the voting council and imigration anybody can win! Believe me, it's easy! (it's also very easy to support or criticize something from far away, just like leftist french who support the Cuban regime... right, they support and defend it while living in Paris, of course, but they don't have to stand that shit because they don't live in Cuba like the Cubans! They wouldn't be caught dead outside Paris! Just the same, it's very easy to support Chavez while living in the USA or something, enjoying our oil! And don't get me wrong, I'm not the anti American type at all --gotta love New York City!--, I just hate that attitude; want to defend Chavez? Come donw here and spend some time with his foot up your ass to see if you'll still like him!). In fact... "we'll talk"? I'm not wasting any more time at this... 'nuff said, so there!
I am from Venezuela and I can tell you that this *dictator* does not believe in anything that has to do with freedom.... what else could you expect from a failed military whose only jump into popularity were two disastrous, bloody and failed coupes? And he calls the oppsition "coup plotters"..... hahahahahahaha!!!! Well, more on the linux front, I have no faith what so ever on the initiative, everything they've done has always had a "reason behind it", if you know what I mean... maybe it is getting more discounts from microsoft, as someone here already said, but that would raise the question "why?", since practically every single piece f software you can find here is pirated.... I can bet on it and cut my veins that if you walk into any public office of your choosing you will *not* find a single valid Windows and/or Office installation, so what's with the "saving money" part about? I believe it's more of an idealistic pose, unfortunately we're full of those here and it's trash, believe me! I mean, how can you interpret the "Muammar Gadaffi Human Rights Award"???? This ditator was awarded with it, and if that's not a pose then I don't know what wolrd we're living in!!! 'nuf said, so there!
Hey guys, thanks to both for your replies clarifying what MorphOS is. I've certainly heard before about the Amiga platform and its OS, but if truth be told I don't know much about it either. I was just curious about what could have seemed as an entirely *new* OS because as far as I know through out the computing era the number of *pure* (because of a lack of a better word) OSs has been relatively low. Lets see, how many do we have? Classic Mac OS from version 1 up to 9, DOS and derivatives (up to Windows ME), Windows NT and derivatives (including XP and 2003 Server), OS/2 (closely related to NT but usually considered a separeted brew), VMS and succesors, NetWare (could that be considered an OS on its own, or has it always been based on DOS?), Amiga and last but *most* certainly not least, UNIX and all its derivatives (namely Linux, all the BSDs --including Darwin-- Solaris, Minix, HP-UX, AIX, Unicos and so on, and so on, and so on...). How many does that count give us? 8, or maybe even 6 if NetWare is packed inside the DOS variants and and OS/2 is packed inside the NT variants. A relatively low number indeed, and if you consider that some of them are fading away and disappearing... it seemed all that much more interesting to see a complely new player in this ball park. Personally I think that in the end we'll only have NT based systems (like Windows XP, Longhorn, 2003 Server and others to come) and UNIX descendants, what do you think? Classic Mac OS will disappear, so will DOS based systems because of Microsoft's push towards NT based ones, VMS is practically gone, IBM anounced some months ago the end of the OS/2 project, and NetWare seems to be loosing market share at incredible speeds (but I'm not too aware of the life that it still has inside). That leaves us only with three: Amiga (of which I know practically nothing; is it fading away as well?), NT and UNIX. If Amiga says good bye then we'll only have the two with which I sarted my argument. I don't know, that's how I see it; what do you guys make of it? Anyhow, thanks again for the clarifications...
Does anyone know for real what type of OS this is? Is it just another UNIX based OS (with Kernel, shell, accounts and all the repertoire) or something completely of its own like classic Mac OS (pre X) and Window$$? Call me ignorant if you may but it's the first time I've ever heard of it and I went through the web site but couldn't find much information. So, what gives?