Some people might switch car brands if they have problems with a particular manufacturer. Same with furniture and other products. That's how competition keeps companies honest. In the absence of Linux, *BSDs, and Apple, would Microsoft be so concerned about quality?
No, you didn't make those claims, breaker did. The other posters in this thread were responding to his claims. You asserted that there was evidence for breaker's claims, but other posters in this thread disagreed.
I've never noticed that Linux device drivers APIs were that volatile. Also, what's wrong with having a choice of distro? Oops, I forgot. Mac users don't want choice, they want Steve Jobs to tell them what to use.
Will it eliminate Microsoft Word? What's to stop Microsoft from making its own Word/ODF plug-in? Also, are the differences between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word so much greater than the differences between successive releases of Microsoft Word?
There has been some work on real time in Linux. It's not what you would want in a typical distribution because most people don't particularly need it. The "problem" would be to design a real-time OS that was also good for non-real-time tasks.
Doesn't TIVO use Linux? Does it do a bad job with audio/video?
It would be "viri", not "virii", except that "virus" was a mass term in Latin. Also, aside from "ox"/"oxen", there are no other such plurals of nouns ending in "ox" (no "foxen").
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It wouldn't be very "profitable" to drop atomic bombs on cities, so I guess the nice residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are safe.
It may be that Open Source apps are more modular, and thus easier to fix in a way that doesn't affect everything else.
Some people might switch car brands if they have problems with a particular manufacturer. Same with furniture and other products. That's how competition keeps companies honest. In the absence of Linux, *BSDs, and Apple, would Microsoft be so concerned about quality?
Isn't "Trusted Computing" more about DRM than security?
No, you didn't make those claims, breaker did. The other posters in this thread were responding to his claims. You asserted that there was evidence for breaker's claims, but other posters in this thread disagreed.
I've never noticed that Linux device drivers APIs were that volatile. Also, what's wrong with having a choice of distro? Oops, I forgot. Mac users don't want choice, they want Steve Jobs to tell them what to use.
I also don't use NFS.
Bazaar? I always took him as more of a cathedral guy!
How do print your received faxes? Do you have a portable printer?
Not cheaper than Microsoft, then. But what about Linux?
all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little case.
There's a free global labor market? Thanks for telling me. I'll be sure to try getting a job in Bangalore as soon as possible.
I'm a USian.
You may believe that he was implying thus, but I don't see it in his post.
But the poster to whom you replied was not generalizing. In fact, that poster was criticizing a previous generalization about Windows.
Also, in the absence of a percentage, how can we decide if Windows is sufficiently robust?
Is it Microsoft's inclusion of Internet Explorer, or its exclusion of other browsers (and making IE "privileged"), that upsets Slashdot readers?
The bulk? Care to express that as a percentage? Or is your "experience" just as subjective as you claim the GP's to be?
I recently installed Kanotix on my PI 233 with 192 meg of RAM.
2 gig of RAM? I should hope it runs well.
Will it eliminate Microsoft Word? What's to stop Microsoft from making its own Word/ODF plug-in? Also, are the differences between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word so much greater than the differences between successive releases of Microsoft Word?
And it is good for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that there is no other major commercial word processor?
China is a dictatorship, but is it still Communist?
And how long would it have kept the share price up?
True, but not in the sense that it is misused. One effects a deal by actually making it, but one affects a deal by making it different.
But implementing to spec requires a spec. What specifications in digital video do Linux and Microsoft Windows fail to meet?
There has been some work on real time in Linux. It's not what you would want in a typical distribution because most people don't particularly need it. The "problem" would be to design a real-time OS that was also good for non-real-time tasks.
Doesn't TIVO use Linux? Does it do a bad job with audio/video?
It would be "viri", not "virii", except that "virus" was a mass term in Latin. Also, aside from "ox"/"oxen", there are no other such plurals of nouns ending in "ox" (no "foxen").