Redhat's success really has little to do with open source, other than they could take advantage of the fact that someone else created the Linux kernel for them and they could build on that.
The FA says you are still allowed to infect your pc with all the malware you want from the addon homepage. Did you try to RTFA but were stopped by ad popups?
Flight restrictions, both permanent and temporary, are already quite common, there are a few websites that show maps of them (one relatively user friendly is http://tfrvisualizer.com/ ), checking where they are and avoiding them is part of the normal flight routine.
1% of the desktop is a little, but it is still a huge number of computers. Also, I do not see why we should all use the same operating system, you like your windows, well use it I do not care. If you think of anything else than operating systems all this "windows is better then linux because more people use it in a specific market niche" is absolutely ridiculous. Do you think Ford Escape is better than Ferrari 458 because more people use the Ford? Well, you may be right, but I don't see how the fact that I still prefer the Ferrari annoys you.
Yep. My response was "FUCK NO!!", and yes they kept pestering me for months. I never gave them a damn thing.
Lucky you, they just terminated my G+ account after a couple weeks of pestering (and at the time you could not use a lot of services without G+), but now G+ is dead, and Vic Gundotra has been fired while I'm still alive and I still have my job.
[she] needs access to Quicken/QuickBooks and others tools (MS Excel) that are pretty much industry standard for her. It would be great to have those all ported to Linux,
Actually, MS Excel has already been ported to Linux, although and to be completely fair, it is a rather specialized distribution of Linux called "Android"
Yes, more open source copycatting proprietary software as "hack" looks like a direct ripoff of Monaco or Menlo fonts found in OS X. How did they get past the copyright lawyers? Although I read somewhere on slashdot that fonts are not copyrightable in the US.
Menlo is based upon the Open Source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font Deja Vu (info embedded inside the font itself).
Sometimes su is confusing, I've been using it for many years, yet it has never been clear to me which variables get passed over to the root session ans which do not, to the point that sometimes I do ssh root@localhost instead of su, just to be sure.
I do plan to give it another go some day when I have a lot more time to spend learning it
I'm sorry to break this to you, but it is very unlikely that sometime in the future you'll have more free time than now, at least not before retirement.
It's almost as bloated with junk as the desktop version. I've been telling our developers to use debian over ubuntu. A base minimal container with Debian is under a 100 megs. With Ubuntu it's close to 700 megs. There's just too much stuff included by default. That means a whole bunch of things that could be potential security problems. Sure, you have to set up more in the Dockerfile since so little is included, but I consider that a feature, not a bug.
Unless you are trying to install it on a Raspberry Pi or other toyware, 600MB are not a significant amount of disk space.
Learning systemd is much easier than porting a gazillion machines to *BSD, I literally did it in one afternoon. You have to RTFM though, which may be hard on your ego.
Firefox, Chrome, OpenOffice (or pirate MS Office), a torrent client, dropbox, google drive client, skype, flash plugin, vlc, something to unzip rar, proprietary client for netflix, some music streaming service, itunes to put a song on your mother's iphone (noticeable performance drop here), 4GB software suite from samsung to copy a pictures from you galaxy phone, a decent text editor a tetris clone.
In addition to these you'll get 8 toolbars (because you got some of the software from cnet or download.com instead of the official web site), 3 suspicious pieces of software that keep installing each other, one bitcoin farming worm
We're not talking about drivers, with bare-bones windows you do not have a decent text editor, not a compiler, no office suite, no ssh client, no proper image editor (TBH, this one is lacking in linux too), not even a decent browser!
The install of windows itself is easy. The problem, is that afterwards you have to install 45 utilities, that you have to download from 27 different sites, and each one tries to install its one adware, or ask for a 86 digits activation key. On Linux (pretty much any modern distribution) it winds down to taking note of two or three additional repositories and a list of packages, you can restore everything with on command line
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We already have three botnets attacking the 911 system right now!! They are called the toddlers, the idiots and the butt-dialers
A smaller version of the headphone jack already exist, I had it in my Nokia phone 6 years ago. And guess what an adapter for that cost 3$ instead of 30$
Redhat's success really has little to do with open source, other than they could take advantage of the fact that someone else created the Linux kernel for them and they could build on that.
Who funds Linux development? RedHat: 11.2%
The FA says you are still allowed to infect your pc with all the malware you want from the addon homepage. Did you try to RTFA but were stopped by ad popups?
Flight restrictions, both permanent and temporary, are already quite common, there are a few websites that show maps of them (one relatively user friendly is http://tfrvisualizer.com/ ), checking where they are and avoiding them is part of the normal flight routine.
On the other hand Thunderbird has never worked properly with Gmail tags. Some extensions claim to make it work, but they just give the illusion of working, until everything breaks even more.
No adblocker is the main turn-off for me, I've long lost the habit of reading text with 89 flash animation popping all around
You mean the Vanity Server
1% of the desktop is a little, but it is still a huge number of computers. Also, I do not see why we should all use the same operating system, you like your windows, well use it I do not care. If you think of anything else than operating systems all this "windows is better then linux because more people use it in a specific market niche" is absolutely ridiculous. Do you think Ford Escape is better than Ferrari 458 because more people use the Ford? Well, you may be right, but I don't see how the fact that I still prefer the Ferrari annoys you.
Yep. My response was "FUCK NO!!", and yes they kept pestering me for months. I never gave them a damn thing.
Lucky you, they just terminated my G+ account after a couple weeks of pestering (and at the time you could not use a lot of services without G+), but now G+ is dead, and Vic Gundotra has been fired while I'm still alive and I still have my job.
[she] needs access to Quicken/QuickBooks and others tools (MS Excel) that are pretty much industry standard for her. It would be great to have those all ported to Linux,
Actually, MS Excel has already been ported to Linux, although and to be completely fair, it is a rather specialized distribution of Linux called "Android"
You know, passwords?
Yes, more open source copycatting proprietary software as "hack" looks like a direct ripoff of Monaco or Menlo fonts found in OS X. How did they get past the copyright lawyers? Although I read somewhere on slashdot that fonts are not copyrightable in the US.
Menlo is based upon the Open Source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font Deja Vu (info embedded inside the font itself).
Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly.
The problem with the man page os "su" is that "similar" and "expect" mean nothing.
systemd is itself modular
Sometimes su is confusing, I've been using it for many years, yet it has never been clear to me which variables get passed over to the root session ans which do not, to the point that sometimes I do ssh root@localhost instead of su, just to be sure.
I do plan to give it another go some day when I have a lot more time to spend learning it
I'm sorry to break this to you, but it is very unlikely that sometime in the future you'll have more free time than now, at least not before retirement.
It's almost as bloated with junk as the desktop version. I've been telling our developers to use debian over ubuntu. A base minimal container with Debian is under a 100 megs. With Ubuntu it's close to 700 megs. There's just too much stuff included by default. That means a whole bunch of things that could be potential security problems. Sure, you have to set up more in the Dockerfile since so little is included, but I consider that a feature, not a bug.
Unless you are trying to install it on a Raspberry Pi or other toyware, 600MB are not a significant amount of disk space.
The fact that it takes such a long post to explain why it is a bad choice, is proof of the contrary.
USB sticks mount fine for me.
Therefore the problem is you.
Learning systemd is much easier than porting a gazillion machines to *BSD, I literally did it in one afternoon. You have to RTFM though, which may be hard on your ego.
Try finding a decent cdburner GUI frontend
I tried, but I bough a USB key instead
Firefox, Chrome, OpenOffice (or pirate MS Office), a torrent client, dropbox, google drive client, skype, flash plugin, vlc, something to unzip rar, proprietary client for netflix, some music streaming service, itunes to put a song on your mother's iphone (noticeable performance drop here), 4GB software suite from samsung to copy a pictures from you galaxy phone, a decent text editor a tetris clone.
In addition to these you'll get 8 toolbars (because you got some of the software from cnet or download.com instead of the official web site), 3 suspicious pieces of software that keep installing each other, one bitcoin farming worm
We're not talking about drivers, with bare-bones windows you do not have a decent text editor, not a compiler, no office suite, no ssh client, no proper image editor (TBH, this one is lacking in linux too), not even a decent browser!
The install of windows itself is easy. The problem, is that afterwards you have to install 45 utilities, that you have to download from 27 different sites, and each one tries to install its one adware, or ask for a 86 digits activation key. On Linux (pretty much any modern distribution) it winds down to taking note of two or three additional repositories and a list of packages, you can restore everything with on command line