For someone who hasn't been in the game for that long, can you elaborate on that? Wikipedia couldn't tell me what possible advantages XFree86 had.
(I'm genuinely curious.)
And the menus don't even work in Konqueror. They appear, but no text is visible.
I thought Google would pay more attention to web standards... But since even GMail still has trouble with anything but IE / Firefox, I'm afraid I must be wrong.
Very disappointing, Google.
+1, Informative.
Sounds silly that I live in this country and yet I didn't know about "the latest news about BSA". The laws exist, but nobody knocked on my door yet:) About the business users I can't tell. But I suspect they have indeed more to risk if they choose the pirate way.
All hail to those who are willing to give Linux a chance!
Because everybody's using Windows around here (Moldova). And when things will become more "civilized" and software will actually be paid for, people will have nowhere to go and will buy their products. So in the long term, Microsoft would have nothing to win if they fight piracy here. That's why they don't.
I use Linux because it's a better environment for programming. They use Windows for free, because they play games (for free). The "because it's free" argument won't convince anyone to try Linux around here. It costs more to download a distro via dial-up, then to buy Windows for $2.
That's hiberfil.sys
Windows has a tendency to use.sys everywhere so that it scares courious people away. It also marks it as a 'protected operating system file', so that it's hidden by default.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean you need a swap partition as big as your RAM.
Swsusp2 uses LZF compression, which usually compresses the 768MB of RAM on my machine down to a mere 300MB or less (that depends on the situation, though).
If you never use all of your physical RAM, or if most of it is used as cache, you can rely on swsusp2 even with a swap partition smaller than how much RAM you have.
(For the record, I have a 1G swap partition, because I sometimes open a large.psd in the Gimp or play Half Life in WinXP;)
True.
Imagine a win98 user who has no idea about Linux. So he decides to try a distro. Do you think the latest Gnome/KDE will run smoother on their machine than Win89 did? Do you believe Openoffice 2 will be faster than MS Office '97? Hell, no! As a newbie, he probably won't have the patience to learn enough on a crawling-slow machine to use IceWM / .
New games will appear, probably Vista-only, as DirectX won't be released for XP. So it'll be either upgrade or play old games. (Unless the game makers will find a way to avoid OS-dependence).
Yeah, the news is a little late. It has appeared on the first mirrors about 3 hours ago.
BTW, Kubuntu is out there as well: http://kubuntu.com/download.php
(I wouldn't bother downloading it right now, since there's a huge congestion on the servers. I hope it'll be gone in a day or two.)
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For someone who hasn't been in the game for that long, can you elaborate on that? Wikipedia couldn't tell me what possible advantages XFree86 had. (I'm genuinely curious.)
And the menus don't even work in Konqueror. They appear, but no text is visible.
I thought Google would pay more attention to web standards... But since even GMail still has trouble with anything but IE / Firefox, I'm afraid I must be wrong.
Very disappointing, Google.
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
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+1, Informative. :) About the business users I can't tell. But I suspect they have indeed more to risk if they choose the pirate way.
All hail to those who are willing to give Linux a chance!
Sounds silly that I live in this country and yet I didn't know about "the latest news about BSA". The laws exist, but nobody knocked on my door yet
Because everybody's using Windows around here (Moldova). And when things will become more "civilized" and software will actually be paid for, people will have nowhere to go and will buy their products. So in the long term, Microsoft would have nothing to win if they fight piracy here. That's why they don't.
I use Linux because it's a better environment for programming. They use Windows for free, because they play games (for free). The "because it's free" argument won't convince anyone to try Linux around here. It costs more to download a distro via dial-up, then to buy Windows for $2.
I thought the 'I' stood for Injections.
That's hiberfil.sys Windows has a tendency to use .sys everywhere so that it scares courious people away. It also marks it as a 'protected operating system file', so that it's hidden by default.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean you need a swap partition as big as your RAM. Swsusp2 uses LZF compression, which usually compresses the 768MB of RAM on my machine down to a mere 300MB or less (that depends on the situation, though). If you never use all of your physical RAM, or if most of it is used as cache, you can rely on swsusp2 even with a swap partition smaller than how much RAM you have. .psd in the Gimp or play Half Life in WinXP ;)
(For the record, I have a 1G swap partition, because I sometimes open a large
True. Imagine a win98 user who has no idea about Linux. So he decides to try a distro. Do you think the latest Gnome/KDE will run smoother on their machine than Win89 did? Do you believe Openoffice 2 will be faster than MS Office '97? Hell, no! As a newbie, he probably won't have the patience to learn enough on a crawling-slow machine to use IceWM / .
Q: What is Microsoft Internet Explorer? A: Just a tool from Microsoft that allows users to go to www.getfirefox.com and download Firefox.
Should've released it on 6/6/6.
New games will appear, probably Vista-only, as DirectX won't be released for XP. So it'll be either upgrade or play old games. (Unless the game makers will find a way to avoid OS-dependence).
4 cards with 2 dual-core, double-the-cache, twice-the-speed GPUs each? Is that what the future keeps for us?
You won't miss them, 'cause Edgy Eft (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyEft) is coming fast (October 2006)
I think this is an acomplishment of the Debian APT system. Ubuntu hadn't much to do with it. Upgrades have been easy in Debian since... always!
Kubuntu is blue ;)
Yeah, the news is a little late. It has appeared on the first mirrors about 3 hours ago. BTW, Kubuntu is out there as well: http://kubuntu.com/download.php (I wouldn't bother downloading it right now, since there's a huge congestion on the servers. I hope it'll be gone in a day or two.)