----- But what if a terrorist organization decided to hack into one of these computers and launch a missle. Probably be easier than hacking into your home computer. -----
Of course, of course. Because, as we all know, those computer are on the Internet. Why wouldn't they be?:)
---- These small linux companies are getting big bucks from big competitors (intel to turbolinux) and IPOing (this case), for what reason? Wouldn't intel's hard-earned bucks be better spent on SuSE or Caldera? ----
Uh, Turbolinux is by no means a "small linux company". It is the most popular Linux distribution in Japan and probably in the rest of Asia. That's a big market; much bigger than Caldera's.
I installed Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 in 20 minutes (15 minutes + 5 minutes to figure out how to get my sound card to work, which COL 2.3 does automatically). After the installation, I had Word Perfect 8, Netscape Communicator 4.5, a Web server and a FTP server, all fully functionnal. IIRC, the developpment tools were also installed, but the headers for most libraries had to be installed separatly (it takes about 5 minutes with kpackage). It was not a 1 Gig install, but I think it was around 700 mb... It took me much more time to install Windows 98 (I have to use it for work) and my network card still doesn't work...
Yeah, Lnx4Win looks good. A umsdos file system is certainly not the way to go if you have a big fat16 partition ; it takes waaay too much space.
Lnx4Win seemed like a nice solution for one of my friends who's a little short on disk space. Unfortunatly, after I installed everything, the kernel would boot but wouldn't mount the file that contained the root filesystem... Oh well, I'll tell him about WinLinux even though it uses umsdos. Who knows, when he runs out of space, he just might decide to delete Windows!
I don't see your point... Even if the optimizations were "rolled into GCC", you would still have to recompile all the applications if you wanted them to take advantage of those optimizations. Installing a new version of GCC wouldn't automagically improve programs that were already compiled...
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well, all wine users that would need high-end directX.
:-)
Oh wait, thats just us idiot gamers.
Actually, plenty of great music software such as Cakewalk SONAR, the Tassman and Reaktor use DirectX, so it's not only for gamers.
Please refrain from sweeping generalizations, as in most cases (except this one) they will be false.
Well well well... Looks like your sweeping generalization was false too.
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But what if a terrorist organization decided to hack into one of these computers and launch a missle. Probably be easier than hacking into your home computer.
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Of course, of course. Because, as we all know, those computer are on the Internet. Why wouldn't they be?
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These small linux companies are getting big bucks from big competitors (intel to turbolinux) and IPOing (this case), for what reason? Wouldn't intel's hard-earned bucks be better spent on SuSE or Caldera?
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Uh, Turbolinux is by no means a "small linux company". It is the most popular Linux distribution in Japan and probably in the rest of Asia. That's a big market; much bigger than Caldera's.
I installed Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 in 20 minutes (15 minutes + 5 minutes to figure out how to get my sound card to work, which COL 2.3 does automatically). After the installation, I had Word Perfect 8, Netscape Communicator 4.5, a Web server and a FTP server, all fully functionnal. IIRC, the developpment tools were also installed, but the headers for most libraries had to be installed separatly (it takes about 5 minutes with kpackage). It was not a 1 Gig install, but I think it was around 700 mb... It took me much more time to install Windows 98 (I have to use it for work) and my network card still doesn't work...
Yeah, Lnx4Win looks good. A umsdos file system is certainly not the way to go if you have a big fat16 partition ; it takes waaay too much space.
Lnx4Win seemed like a nice solution for one of my friends who's a little short on disk space. Unfortunatly, after I installed everything, the kernel would boot but wouldn't mount the file that contained the root filesystem... Oh well, I'll tell him about WinLinux even though it uses umsdos. Who knows, when he runs out of space, he just might decide to delete Windows!
I don't see your point... Even if the optimizations were "rolled into GCC", you would still have to recompile all the applications if you wanted them to take advantage of those optimizations. Installing a new version of GCC wouldn't automagically improve programs that were already compiled...