I've only had to reformat any of my windows boxes once or twice in their lifetimes, why don't these people get a virus scanner and/or firewall or something?
(although I've never had to reformat my linux partitions)
Wow, girls like you do exist outside of the University of Waterloo. I thought it was just a dream. Although since I go to Waterloo, i guess that doesn't really matter.
I use slackware, myself, although I was thinking of giving Debian Sarge a try... but the general consensus I've heard from my peers is that it's a letdown. What do you guys think? is it worth a try for a devoted Slacker like me? Or should I try Gentoo, mabe instead?
I don't know, both my laptop and x64 box have been running stable on their first installs of linux with everything working perfectly for over a year now. My only problems in the beginning were to to the shotty ATI driver support. But that's ATI's fault, and since I dont game on Linux, I don't really care about 3D rendering.
On the other hand, I've had to reinstall Windows 3x this last year, and even less works on a clean install (windows didn't even include drivers for my RAID controller, which caused me no end of pain for awhile) and, worst of all, my laptop's ethernet contoller didn't work on a clean install of winxp. so i couldn't download drivers for anything, and had to boot into linux and burn them onto a cd.
So don't go complaining about Linux's hardware support, I've had way, way more problems with Windoze.
I installed XP Pro on my laptop the other week, and *nothing* worked, that was when i decided to switch to Linux as my principal OS (except on my gaming rig, of course, but that's ATI and the game developers' faults).
I have my 1280x800 working just fine... If I'm not mistaken, thats a rather similar aspect ratio, and a bizarre resolution. And my sound chipset doesn't work on a clean install of Windoze, but Slackware and ALSA found it just fine (and so did Fedora, Ubuntu, and SuSE).
You know, I find it odd that these people (Who likely tried Fedora) have all these problems (when the distro is supposed to configure everything for you), while when I install a "Geek Distro" like Slackware or Gentoo on my system, just about everything works perfectly (and my system's a Toshiba laptop, on which a clean install of WinXP has almost no functionality).
I don't know what these people put in their computers that make them work so poorly. (But i presume they're Dell or Gateway boxes, with lots of sketchy child-labour manufactured components).
Yes, and I believe he followed by saying that because of that (and possibly some other factors), Democracy is both the Best and the Worst possible form of government.
P.S. I (being Canadian) have been raised to believe that this "Americans are Stupid" thing is true, but I'd like to say, not ALL Americans are stupid. Just the Red states.
Similarly, one can safely assume that the *nix-ers out there are also safe. Thank you MS for giving people another reason to switch away from your platform.:D
Wow, Somebody's bitter about their open-source operating system being a failure... When BSD has the insans driver support that linux does, then maybe I'll make the switch (or maybe OpenSolaris will do it for me) either way, Linux is the only OS that is anywhere near ready to take on Windoze. (MacOS doesnt count, as it only runs on roughly 2.5% of all computers out there (and PearPC is SLOOOOW)).
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I've only had to reformat any of my windows boxes once or twice in their lifetimes, why don't these people get a virus scanner and/or firewall or something?
(although I've never had to reformat my linux partitions)
Xbox only beat GameCube in North America, however. GameCube came out on top in both japan and Europe.
Wow, a processor thread, and nobody's mentioned SPARCs yet...
As I recall, they tend to be neck in neck with the POWERs. Plus I can't wait for Sun & Fujitsu's new chips to come out this fall, should be sweet.
P.S. Yes, I am a Sun Whore.
Wow, girls like you do exist outside of the University of Waterloo. I thought it was just a dream. Although since I go to Waterloo, i guess that doesn't really matter.
Wow, a helpful slashdot post, who would have guessed?
Thank you very much.
I use slackware, myself, although I was thinking of giving Debian Sarge a try... but the general consensus I've heard from my peers is that it's a letdown. What do you guys think? is it worth a try for a devoted Slacker like me? Or should I try Gentoo, mabe instead?
Your sig, is that Blow up Sun Microsystems? or the actual Sun?
I dunno, sometimes I wonder about those AC's, what with their oft stupid and/or offensive remarks that they're always making.
I don't know, both my laptop and x64 box have been running stable on their first installs of linux with everything working perfectly for over a year now. My only problems in the beginning were to to the shotty ATI driver support. But that's ATI's fault, and since I dont game on Linux, I don't really care about 3D rendering. On the other hand, I've had to reinstall Windows 3x this last year, and even less works on a clean install (windows didn't even include drivers for my RAID controller, which caused me no end of pain for awhile) and, worst of all, my laptop's ethernet contoller didn't work on a clean install of winxp. so i couldn't download drivers for anything, and had to boot into linux and burn them onto a cd. So don't go complaining about Linux's hardware support, I've had way, way more problems with Windoze.
I installed XP Pro on my laptop the other week, and *nothing* worked, that was when i decided to switch to Linux as my principal OS (except on my gaming rig, of course, but that's ATI and the game developers' faults).
I have my 1280x800 working just fine... If I'm not mistaken, thats a rather similar aspect ratio, and a bizarre resolution. And my sound chipset doesn't work on a clean install of Windoze, but Slackware and ALSA found it just fine (and so did Fedora, Ubuntu, and SuSE).
Gosling isn't one of those, just kinda socially inept...
You know, I find it odd that these people (Who likely tried Fedora) have all these problems (when the distro is supposed to configure everything for you), while when I install a "Geek Distro" like Slackware or Gentoo on my system, just about everything works perfectly (and my system's a Toshiba laptop, on which a clean install of WinXP has almost no functionality).
I don't know what these people put in their computers that make them work so poorly. (But i presume they're Dell or Gateway boxes, with lots of sketchy child-labour manufactured components).
Haha, that could come in handy sometimes. And then, when you're old and it won't go up, no need for Viagra, just tell it to.
Yes, and I believe he followed by saying that because of that (and possibly some other factors), Democracy is both the Best and the Worst possible form of government. P.S. I (being Canadian) have been raised to believe that this "Americans are Stupid" thing is true, but I'd like to say, not ALL Americans are stupid. Just the Red states.
God Bless Canada.
Similarly, one can safely assume that the *nix-ers out there are also safe. Thank you MS for giving people another reason to switch away from your platform. :D
Wow, Somebody's bitter about their open-source operating system being a failure... When BSD has the insans driver support that linux does, then maybe I'll make the switch (or maybe OpenSolaris will do it for me) either way, Linux is the only OS that is anywhere near ready to take on Windoze. (MacOS doesnt count, as it only runs on roughly 2.5% of all computers out there (and PearPC is SLOOOOW)).
Yay!! Now I can slack it up on my new AMD64 box! No more of this FC crap. Let the good times roll.