"while everyone else went with OSS"??? What does that mean, last time I checked, the BSDs were open source also, just under the BSD license, not the GPL.
The motherboard drivers did not come with Windows, they came on a CD that was installed after the initial install of windows. That enabled the USB ports, the SATA connections, the NIC and the sound card. Ubuntu didn't need any drivers installed to work, the drivers for the chipset and devices came with the distro. But thanks for playing
Considering that windows didn't have any problems, I expected Linux to work at least as well as windows, which it didn't, and considering I went from a kt600 to a kt400, which uses the same drivers, I didn't expect any problems there either, but when Windows kept running, and Linux didn't. So yes, I was surprised, I expected Linux to perform better than Windows
The other day I had to replace my MB, my system boots XP, W2K and Ubuntu 5.10. When I replaced the system, XP, and then W2K updated all the drivers and then went on like nothing happened. Ubuntu seemed to take the change, but both Gnome and KDE crash violently every hour or so, 5 or 6 segfaults and then it kicks me back to GDM. After seeing the vaunted linux stability in action, I find your elitist attitude a bit undeserved, which I may add, is exactly what this article is discussing. Thanks for making it's point
The users are not snobs to each other, and I would hope that no newbie in his right mind would try gentoo as his first distro, and if he did the person who recommended it to him should be shot. Gentoo is a poweruser's distro, anybody new to linux would be overwhelmed in a few minutes
I do dev work in VS 2003 on a Athlon 2800+, 512M ram and it certainly does not kill it, I can have 2 or 3 VS sessions open, and mediaplayer, firefox, what have you, and it still runs just fine
"The "silent installs" in IE are a MAJOR source of spyware infections. But that's just because it is sooooooo easy. The "...without first seeking permission." bit tells me that the "silent installs" will be changed to "click here to continue" installs"
No, the silent installs will be replaced with "please enter the administrator username and password to continue", which should create a much different reaction, I would think
They've taken away Admin rights for normal users, which is (imho) the main reason the spyware problem is so bad in windows, locked down activeX in IE, and made the firewall a true two way firewall, they aren't fixing just the edges, they are putting some serious (and painful to some endusers) effort into securing the thing
Uh, MS has implemented true user accounts in Vista, the user runs as a normal, non administrative user, and access to data on the harddrive is encryptable, as it has been since at least w2k. And most other OS's do not use the sort of hash based access to user files that you suggested, so I guess they don't care about security either......
"OS/2 --> Windows NT"
OS/2 and NT were being developed at the same time by MS and IBM, IBM and MS were collaborating on OS/2 development, and MS was working on NT, there was a falling out, and MS went on with NT, and IBM went on with OS/2. MS did not copy/buy out/steal OS/2 and sell it as NT, they actually based NT's design on VMS. IBM managed to kill OS/2 on it's own, with no help from MS, even though they just cut the lifesupport a few years ago.
Way to take something out of context, the entire line is "Virtual-machine monitors are available from both the open-source community and commercial vendors"
They aren't accusing anybody of anything, they are just saying who they are available from. Sheesh, maybe it's time to loosen up that tinfoil hat?
"Electricity, sewage and oil only work efficiently in huge, centralised systems and aren't feasible in small scale.
That's not always true, sewage, water aned oil in most rural areas are decentralized, my own house has it's own well and septic tank, as it is impractical to build large rural sewer/water systems, and in my area, most oil is delivered to tanks attached to the house. Please don't believe that your circumstances are universal, they are not.
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"while everyone else went with OSS"??? What does that mean, last time I checked, the BSDs were open source also, just under the BSD license, not the GPL.
The motherboard drivers did not come with Windows, they came on a CD that was installed after the initial install of windows. That enabled the USB ports, the SATA connections, the NIC and the sound card. Ubuntu didn't need any drivers installed to work, the drivers for the chipset and devices came with the distro. But thanks for playing
Considering that windows didn't have any problems, I expected Linux to work at least as well as windows, which it didn't, and considering I went from a kt600 to a kt400, which uses the same drivers, I didn't expect any problems there either, but when Windows kept running, and Linux didn't. So yes, I was surprised, I expected Linux to perform better than Windows
The other day I had to replace my MB, my system boots XP, W2K and Ubuntu 5.10. When I replaced the system, XP, and then W2K updated all the drivers and then went on like nothing happened. Ubuntu seemed to take the change, but both Gnome and KDE crash violently every hour or so, 5 or 6 segfaults and then it kicks me back to GDM. After seeing the vaunted linux stability in action, I find your elitist attitude a bit undeserved, which I may add, is exactly what this article is discussing. Thanks for making it's point
The users are not snobs to each other, and I would hope that no newbie in his right mind would try gentoo as his first distro, and if he did the person who recommended it to him should be shot. Gentoo is a poweruser's distro, anybody new to linux would be overwhelmed in a few minutes
I do dev work in VS 2003 on a Athlon 2800+, 512M ram and it certainly does not kill it, I can have 2 or 3 VS sessions open, and mediaplayer, firefox, what have you, and it still runs just fine
"The "silent installs" in IE are a MAJOR source of spyware infections. But that's just because it is sooooooo easy. The "...without first seeking permission." bit tells me that the "silent installs" will be changed to "click here to continue" installs" No, the silent installs will be replaced with "please enter the administrator username and password to continue", which should create a much different reaction, I would think
"Windows Vista's Aero Glass effects." Not Vista, just the new 3d effects
They've taken away Admin rights for normal users, which is (imho) the main reason the spyware problem is so bad in windows, locked down activeX in IE, and made the firewall a true two way firewall, they aren't fixing just the edges, they are putting some serious (and painful to some endusers) effort into securing the thing
There is a very good technical reason for it, 99.9% of users using windows are logged in as ADMINISTRATOR aka ROOT
Uh, MS has implemented true user accounts in Vista, the user runs as a normal, non administrative user, and access to data on the harddrive is encryptable, as it has been since at least w2k. And most other OS's do not use the sort of hash based access to user files that you suggested, so I guess they don't care about security either......
"OS/2 --> Windows NT" OS/2 and NT were being developed at the same time by MS and IBM, IBM and MS were collaborating on OS/2 development, and MS was working on NT, there was a falling out, and MS went on with NT, and IBM went on with OS/2. MS did not copy/buy out/steal OS/2 and sell it as NT, they actually based NT's design on VMS. IBM managed to kill OS/2 on it's own, with no help from MS, even though they just cut the lifesupport a few years ago.
Nice post, I'd put up with redundancy over posts that offer no value, no information, just rude comments and irelevant, irrational anger
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Way to take something out of context, the entire line is "Virtual-machine monitors are available from both the open-source community and commercial vendors" They aren't accusing anybody of anything, they are just saying who they are available from. Sheesh, maybe it's time to loosen up that tinfoil hat?
"Electricity, sewage and oil only work efficiently in huge, centralised systems and aren't feasible in small scale. That's not always true, sewage, water aned oil in most rural areas are decentralized, my own house has it's own well and septic tank, as it is impractical to build large rural sewer/water systems, and in my area, most oil is delivered to tanks attached to the house. Please don't believe that your circumstances are universal, they are not.