All you people keep bitching that the Slashdot folks shouldn't post software announcements. How about you all stop sending the software announcements in to them? They only post what we send to them, so if you all stop sending these in, they won't get posted.
...and then you won't be able to download it from their web site, like trying to download IE5 with IE2 that comes with Windows NT 4. I find it hilarious that Micros~1 switched to header-based web sites and didn't take into account (or did and just didn't care) that IE2 doesn't work on header-based sites, so trying to upgrade to IE5 just gives errors on their web site. Way to go Micros~1.
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I've been using Linux for a long time, before all the hype ruined its image and before everyone started using it because RedHat's stock went up for no reason. I never understood why everyone picked Linux to be this revolutionary operating system to replace Microsoft Windows. Linux is an operating system derived from Unix, and I don't see a bunch of kids with SCO running on their desktops. The "average user" doesn't care about the things that make Linux the great operating system it is and has been since its introduction. My dad doesn't care that it has IP aliasing support or that it can read FreeBSD disk slices. My dad doesn't care that it's free, either. When it comes down to it, "average users" would rather pay for software if it means they can have someone to complain to when it doesn't work. If he can run Windows and it has a problem, he can call Microsoft because he paid for it. If he has a problem with his mouse in Slackware Linux, who's he going to call? Nobody, because he shouldn't be using it in the first place. If he doesn't know how to fix it, he shouldn't be using it. And since an average user can't call and complain to someone, now they have a bad view of Linux. The hype over Linux has caused people to perceive it as something it's not, and when it doesn't act up to that image that people have of it, the operating system itself gets a bad rap. To make Linux perform that way would ruin the things it stands for. I've actually seen magazine articles where they compare Linux to other operating systems and they give Linux a bad mark because it doesn't have support. "Forget all the great features in the kernel and increasing hardware support, Linux doesn't have a 1-800 number so it's not as good as a less featured operating system that does have one."
If the world wants an operating system that they can put on all their desktops and think they're special for running, why doesn't someone make a free operating system based off of BeOS that stresses multimedia rather than a fast TCP/IP stack; something the "average user" cares about and leave Linux to the nerds. -- Joshua C. Stein Superblock Information Systems
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How can this be an accurate test of Linux vs. NT? Linux is just the kernel. The software (GNU or otherwise) is really what's at stake here. If you comprimise a CGI script, what difference does it make whether that script was running on Linux or OpenBSD? The system is still comprimised, and it didn't make any difference what operating system it ran on.
This shouldn't be a Linux vs. NT battle. Make it an Apache vs. IIS battle (or Perl vs. ASP if you want) and leave the underlying operating system out of the whole mess. It just results in bad press for both parties (i.e., in the LinuxPPC contest, the NT server was never actually "hacked", yet it was down half the time which made it look bad.)
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All you people keep bitching that the Slashdot folks shouldn't post software announcements. How about you all stop sending the software announcements in to them? They only post what we send to them, so if you all stop sending these in, they won't get posted.
...and then you won't be able to download it from their web site, like trying to download IE5 with IE2 that comes with Windows NT 4. I find it hilarious that Micros~1 switched to header-based web sites and didn't take into account (or did and just didn't care) that IE2 doesn't work on header-based sites, so trying to upgrade to IE5 just gives errors on their web site. Way to go Micros~1.
The UDP worked for usenet spam, maybe if they're in the RBL for a couple days they'll do something about the email spam.
Renewing the domain doesn't make him the owner of it. Anyone can pay the $35 on any domain to renew it, it doesn't mean anything.
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If the world wants an operating system that they can put on all their desktops and think they're special for running, why doesn't someone make a free operating system based off of BeOS that stresses multimedia rather than a fast TCP/IP stack; something the "average user" cares about and leave Linux to the nerds.
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Joshua C. Stein
Superblock Information Systems
If you drink enough, you can make up people to talk to.
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The authors of The GIMP needed a toolkit to build the program, thus GTK was born. Maybe a new toolkit can be built for the office suite and be open enough to be used in many other applications, the same way GTK has.
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Joshua C. Stein
Superblock Information Systems
Are we all supposed to write on the magazine and pass it around to eachother?
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Linux | Posted by Roblimo on 08:40 PM September 27th, 1999 CST
from the another-reason-to-dump-Linux-for-freeBSD dept.
How can this be an accurate test of Linux vs. NT? Linux is just the kernel. The software (GNU or otherwise) is really what's at stake here. If you comprimise a CGI script, what difference does it make whether that script was running on Linux or OpenBSD? The system is still comprimised, and it didn't make any difference what operating system it ran on.
This shouldn't be a Linux vs. NT battle. Make it an Apache vs. IIS battle (or Perl vs. ASP if you want) and leave the underlying operating system out of the whole mess. It just results in bad press for both parties (i.e., in the LinuxPPC contest, the NT server was never actually "hacked", yet it was down half the time which made it look bad.)