once its installed and configured (which is a service dell provides for microsoft windows, and would provide for linux) i believe linux is more logical:
questions linux > windows converts would ask (if things were reversed:
what the hell is c:? a:? d:? (many linux distro's now put a link on kde desktops for any removable media mounted)
where is my home directory? wft is c:\documents and settings?
why cant i use the default media player on anything less than a duel core athlon 64 4800+?
how do i install stuff? where is my pointy-clicky gui which downloads and install stuff for me? (synaptic)
why does my desktop look like arse? (windows looks like arse, imho kde does not).
where all all the useful utilities in windows? how come i cant rip CD's to mp3, or play games, or write a document out the box? (grip or kaudiocreator, k > games > *, oowriter)
sort of. i had a dodgy motherboard, linux was crashy (apps and occasionally the kernel but i was new to linux at the time and was using mandrake which is known for its crashyness).
anyway, linux was crashy, windows wouldn't install.
i wouldn't be discouraged by that if i was you, try another distro that doesn't suck balls. (k)ubuntu is quite a nice distro, just install webmin (apt-get install webmin) and youve got a replacement for mandrakes *drake tools (diskdrake, etc)
most uk schools now have more than one computer room, if they used an MS room for teaching kids to use MS office, then an OSS room for doing their work. then they're trained to use office and educated on OSS products - if in 15 years, most UK business converted, that could do wonders for our economy.
we may be getting fuse support in the 2.6.12 kernel (woo!). i forgot about that.
thanks for reminding me.
anyway, i did try it once using sshfs with fuse and it was very easy to use and didn't give me any problems but i decided to wait for it to be in vanilla. if you use gentoo, i believe there's an ebuild for a kernel with fuse, although i may be wrong (im using debian now).
debian are more anal about what is a free license than the fsf. if you want a list of very free licences - see debian's list, free licences see fsf's list.
Apparently apple keeps their code portable so a quick recompile for x86 will do, as a quick emergency backup plan.
Its only a rumour though and with apple growing (iirc), they wouldn't resort to this unless they had to (they make money from hardware too, plus good device drivers for a small ammount of hardware is one of the things that keeps OSX stable).
afaik its zeroconf support is available (or in development) as part of kde (as a kio-slave). its unfortunate that KIO-Slaves aren't more low level so more apps can use them (the tk[??], GTK[vmware] and non-kde specific QT apps [opera] that i use). ah well.
didn't novel sell the rights to unix to sco, as opposed to sco buying the rights from at&t? (according to novel they sold the right to modify and distrobute, but not ownership)
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im english and i hate being called british - im english. How come its politically correct for somebody to be scottish but not so for english?
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MacOSX is backwards compatible through a subsystem (just how XP is "compatible" with some dos programs).
Windows already has a POSIX layer, and the common unix utils (google for "microsoft services for unix"). its about 250mb but at first glance looks ok.
They could do the same for w32 apps.
once its installed and configured (which is a service dell provides for microsoft windows, and would provide for linux) i believe linux is more logical:
questions linux > windows converts would ask (if things were reversed:
what the hell is c:? a:? d:? (many linux distro's now put a link on kde desktops for any removable media mounted)
where is my home directory? wft is c:\documents and settings?
why cant i use the default media player on anything less than a duel core athlon 64 4800+?
how do i install stuff? where is my pointy-clicky gui which downloads and install stuff for me? (synaptic)
why does my desktop look like arse? (windows looks like arse, imho kde does not).
where all all the useful utilities in windows? how come i cant rip CD's to mp3, or play games, or write a document out the box? (grip or kaudiocreator, k > games > *, oowriter)
sort of. i had a dodgy motherboard, linux was crashy (apps and occasionally the kernel but i was new to linux at the time and was using mandrake which is known for its crashyness).
anyway, linux was crashy, windows wouldn't install.
i wouldn't be discouraged by that if i was you, try another distro that doesn't suck balls. (k)ubuntu is quite a nice distro, just install webmin (apt-get install webmin) and youve got a replacement for mandrakes *drake tools (diskdrake, etc)
most uk schools now have more than one computer room, if they used an MS room for teaching kids to use MS office, then an OSS room for doing their work. then they're trained to use office and educated on OSS products - if in 15 years, most UK business converted, that could do wonders for our economy.
i know its not for the right reasons but i showed my cusin how good kde can look (screenshot), he said "wow, can i have that".
if your using windows you obviously dont care about licenses. also, whats the point in a good jvm if your going to be using a crap os?
that'd be cool - have a load balancing firewall to pass every other connection to the apache box, see if the iis box sets on fire
newer versions of windows require attacking the registry to enable plain text passwords.
but there's the long term. plus there's the educational benifits from using more than one operating system
we may be getting fuse support in the 2.6.12 kernel (woo!). i forgot about that.
thanks for reminding me.
anyway, i did try it once using sshfs with fuse and it was very easy to use and didn't give me any problems but i decided to wait for it to be in vanilla. if you use gentoo, i believe there's an ebuild for a kernel with fuse, although i may be wrong (im using debian now).
debian are more anal about what is a free license than the fsf. if you want a list of very free licences - see debian's list, free licences see fsf's list.
Apparently apple keeps their code portable so a quick recompile for x86 will do, as a quick emergency backup plan.
Its only a rumour though and with apple growing (iirc), they wouldn't resort to this unless they had to (they make money from hardware too, plus good device drivers for a small ammount of hardware is one of the things that keeps OSX stable).
afaik its zeroconf support is available (or in development) as part of kde (as a kio-slave). its unfortunate that KIO-Slaves aren't more low level so more apps can use them (the tk[??], GTK[vmware] and non-kde specific QT apps [opera] that i use). ah well.
As opposed to SCO's pending big wooden box?
didn't novel sell the rights to unix to sco, as opposed to sco buying the rights from at&t? (according to novel they sold the right to modify and distrobute, but not ownership)
but god didn't have the forsight to patent his innovations
me and my friends were playing multiplayer quake 2 in class last year, over then lan and our teacher came over and said:
"What the hell do you think your doing playing quake 2 in class? quake 3 is out now"
a long time ago, it took them a long time to replace freebsd with nt because nt couldn't handle it.
iirc they waited until win2k, but i might be making that up.
that makes downloading (possibly uploading) files from holland 100% legal. hopefully the record industry will live to regret this.
at least its better than the scottish version, jimmy
about the no right button thing.
my left mouse button died yesterday on my PC. i had to use the 5 key on the numpad (after enabling mousekeys)
since DAY FRIGGIN' ONE
or as i heard a 15 year old mum on trisha once say: "SINCE DAY GO"