Does anyone have experience in using Linux desktop with everything running as root? Doesn't Lindows do this as default? I wonder how secure such a Linux is, when compared to fully patched Windows XP with a "normal" setup, in which the user is also an administrator.
I think this boils down to: How safe is IE in non-administrator mode today?
How about adding a simple Linux parameter that would remove all the hardware detection masturbation text when my system boots up? No, I don't want a fancy graphical boot up sequence. I want one that just after a while displays a login screen. Is there a way to do this already?
I am pretty sure my hardware does not change over every night by itself. Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful to relearn every goddamn time someone called Dave Jones created the agpgart interface Linux uses. And oo-wii my Athlon also still supports "hlt" instruction. This is pretty life saving stuff.
No. Try again.. People quit M$ because they are sick and tired of dishing out bucketloads of money everytime they want to do anything, because they are sick of rebooting 400 times a day, because they are sick of BSODs.. And on and on and on.../blockquote
Yes and people quit reading Slashdot because they live in a place called the Real World, where the time did not stop in the year 1999. Oh just stop. Not one of those statements you made are true anymore. You even worse than Microsoft PR machine.
Wouldn't it be great to change the karma point system of Slashdot so you could also have actual "anti-Microsoft karma points"? Then you could get +1 points for bashing Microsoft. You just can't spend them because... well, it's Microsoft after all.
Yes, I think Microsoft is iivl, because I just broke a guitar string. Where's my +1?
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The greatest fear the Linux lovin' folks have right now is this: Microsoft releases an OS that just works and releases it as Open Source. Upon examination it is revealed that the OS is perfect and the driver support and legacy app support is also very good. And everyone will get to use it for free, Microsoft just charges for support.
Not that this will ever happen, but I frightened you didn't I?
Yeah I'm using GNU/Linux along with Xorg and everything a regular Open Source desktop contains these days. It just sucks compared to Windows XP, but it's free and I just love tweaking. Longhorn will probably be even better.
Well, neither Word nor OpenOffice can open TeX files and I would really like to use TeX but sadly cannot do that. It is a perfect technical manual writing tool for a programmer.
I don't think Open Source alternatives will ever be truly succesful on desktop because lack of end user support, documentation and in many cases, really poor "product packaging". OO is great, but it's a solution to a problem that does not exist for a normal everyday Windows user. There is simply no reason to make the move. MS Office already does the job.
So which one of these 16300 application open just about flawlessly Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint slides? These are the application just about everybody using a Windows machine uses in a normal office.
And do not say OpenOffice because THAT would be too obvious and also incorrect.
Linus forgets that most of today's applications rely and run on Windows only. Any it will stay that way because Microsoft keeps developing new APIs. The situation is different than what we've seen in other areas of industry on the last 200 years.
Yeah I know and actually have used projects like Wine to run some Windows applications on GNU/Linux. But Wine actually makes Windows APIs even more a must. Note I don't mean Windows itself but Windows APIs.
What's the point? So your business partner could easily move to LInux desktop applications. But a lot of people cannot. Do you really think that everyone can make the changes easily just because someone you know did it?
These secret codes are preventing me from making a backup copy of these Ancient Torahs! The torahs are no doubt very fragile and may be unreadable in any second. Yeah, I'm sure the original manufacturer promised they would last for a few thousand years but after that? I demand these ancients reveal their data encryption schemes to the general public! There's probably DRM evilness of some sort lurking there also. This is Slashdot after all and my rights as a athei^D^D^D^D^D religious believer of whatever are being violated.
By now, even the most dense slashdotters MAY have figured out that the whole patent circus in the U.S is about protecting U.S companies and giving them an advantage over companies from based in other countries. This is also used to protect U.S markets against foreign competitors.
So in essence, the U.S government is doing its best indirectly to help these companies by allowing the patent show to go on. The most important thing is it's a U.S company holding the patents.
That's an awful number of Linux distribution ISOs, videos of your grandma ja your cat playing with a ball of lint. Since everyone is of course using BitTorrent to distribute legal stuff because suggesting something else would be Your Rights Online(tm) violation.
Whose rights are we talking about here? The rights of the restaurant staff plus owner or the rights of the consumer using the restaurant's services?
I am only hoping that the "yro" title refers to the rights of the consumer as this clearly is a case of false advertising and yes, the restaurant should be fined. The term "yro" on Slashdot seems to going down the toilet rather fast as everything is suddenly about the rights of people.
If you think the government or some other institution is out there to get you and your rights, try living somewhere else. Or at least try living for a while.
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Does anyone have experience in using Linux desktop with everything running as root? Doesn't Lindows do this as default? I wonder how secure such a Linux is, when compared to fully patched Windows XP with a "normal" setup, in which the user is also an administrator. I think this boils down to: How safe is IE in non-administrator mode today?
How about adding a simple Linux parameter that would remove all the hardware detection masturbation text when my system boots up? No, I don't want a fancy graphical boot up sequence. I want one that just after a while displays a login screen. Is there a way to do this already? I am pretty sure my hardware does not change over every night by itself. Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful to relearn every goddamn time someone called Dave Jones created the agpgart interface Linux uses. And oo-wii my Athlon also still supports "hlt" instruction. This is pretty life saving stuff.
Thank you :) And just to let you know, you can also type these BIG LETTERS on your keyboard.
Wouldn't it be great to change the karma point system of Slashdot so you could also have actual "anti-Microsoft karma points"? Then you could get +1 points for bashing Microsoft. You just can't spend them because... well, it's Microsoft after all. Yes, I think Microsoft is iivl, because I just broke a guitar string. Where's my +1?
The greatest fear the Linux lovin' folks have right now is this: Microsoft releases an OS that just works and releases it as Open Source. Upon examination it is revealed that the OS is perfect and the driver support and legacy app support is also very good. And everyone will get to use it for free, Microsoft just charges for support. Not that this will ever happen, but I frightened you didn't I? Yeah I'm using GNU/Linux along with Xorg and everything a regular Open Source desktop contains these days. It just sucks compared to Windows XP, but it's free and I just love tweaking. Longhorn will probably be even better.
Well, neither Word nor OpenOffice can open TeX files and I would really like to use TeX but sadly cannot do that. It is a perfect technical manual writing tool for a programmer. I don't think Open Source alternatives will ever be truly succesful on desktop because lack of end user support, documentation and in many cases, really poor "product packaging". OO is great, but it's a solution to a problem that does not exist for a normal everyday Windows user. There is simply no reason to make the move. MS Office already does the job.
So which one of these 16300 application open just about flawlessly Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint slides? These are the application just about everybody using a Windows machine uses in a normal office. And do not say OpenOffice because THAT would be too obvious and also incorrect.
Linus forgets that most of today's applications rely and run on Windows only. Any it will stay that way because Microsoft keeps developing new APIs. The situation is different than what we've seen in other areas of industry on the last 200 years. Yeah I know and actually have used projects like Wine to run some Windows applications on GNU/Linux. But Wine actually makes Windows APIs even more a must. Note I don't mean Windows itself but Windows APIs.
What's the point? So your business partner could easily move to LInux desktop applications. But a lot of people cannot. Do you really think that everyone can make the changes easily just because someone you know did it?
These secret codes are preventing me from making a backup copy of these Ancient Torahs! The torahs are no doubt very fragile and may be unreadable in any second. Yeah, I'm sure the original manufacturer promised they would last for a few thousand years but after that? I demand these ancients reveal their data encryption schemes to the general public! There's probably DRM evilness of some sort lurking there also. This is Slashdot after all and my rights as a athei^D^D^D^D^D religious believer of whatever are being violated.
By now, even the most dense slashdotters MAY have figured out that the whole patent circus in the U.S is about protecting U.S companies and giving them an advantage over companies from based in other countries. This is also used to protect U.S markets against foreign competitors. So in essence, the U.S government is doing its best indirectly to help these companies by allowing the patent show to go on. The most important thing is it's a U.S company holding the patents.
You may be thinking about the game Backlash made by Paul Woakes. Indeed a very cool considering the hardware limitations back in the day...
That's an awful number of Linux distribution ISOs, videos of your grandma ja your cat playing with a ball of lint. Since everyone is of course using BitTorrent to distribute legal stuff because suggesting something else would be Your Rights Online(tm) violation.
Whose rights are we talking about here? The rights of the restaurant staff plus owner or the rights of the consumer using the restaurant's services? I am only hoping that the "yro" title refers to the rights of the consumer as this clearly is a case of false advertising and yes, the restaurant should be fined. The term "yro" on Slashdot seems to going down the toilet rather fast as everything is suddenly about the rights of people. If you think the government or some other institution is out there to get you and your rights, try living somewhere else. Or at least try living for a while.
Google reveals that this has been done already before. Check out http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-105.html, for example.