Lindows wins one against Microsoft

"I started to install Linux but the fact that it didn't have a simple install program bugged me and I still can't think of a legitimate reason to have it. "

Try the SuSE Linux distribution. The version I have is two years old now, but the installation was unbelievably simple. I put together my computer from randomly purchased hardware, and I was surprised that Linux supported and detected all of the hardware, detected my network, and set itself up for the internet.

Your going to want to have two physical hard drives, one for Linux and one for Windows.

I installed Linux to learn a valuable skill. I expected it to be my primary operating system, but that hasn't happened yet.

"UNIX.... a great place to live, a lousy place to visit.

If you knew UNIX better, you'd feel differently. Not a dig, just an observation."

Your probably right. Its probably the time factor for me. I know the basics, but beyond that I still need to learn more, but lack the time. I have had Linux installed for two years and basically just scratched the surface, doing file manipulation, basic commands, installed some programs, ect.

Another reason is that my experiences with Windows XP have been almost entirely positive.

If you want to learn shell programming better, and/or make use of large formatted text files, delimited data, etc, you might want to check out Cygwin...

http://www.cygwin.com/

You can have all the GNU userland tools and a nice BASH shell in Windows. I use it every day. It rocks. Most gnu make driven software will build on it. I built up snmpwalk the other day, from source. Neato!

If you want to learn shell programming better, and/or make use of large formatted text files, delimited data, etc, you might want to check out Cygwin...

One question I didn't see answered at the Cygwin web site is what one should do if one only wants to run a Cygwin ap but does not wish to download all the development stuff.

The U.S. District Court in Seattle ruled Wednesday that the jury in the case should "consider whether the Windows mark was generic" before Windows 1.0 entered the marketplace in 1985. It also said that even if the "primary significance" of the term is not generic today--that is, has been displaced by the proprietary use--the trademark is not necessarily valid.

"Windows" is a primary technique used in 1973 by then Burroughs Corporation [now Unisys] for use in systems where Special terminals, operating under specially designed Man-Machine Interface software that walked data entry people through Context-Dependent transaction processing.

It predates the Founding of Microsoft by several years.

Folks I know who designed Trust systems for a Bank [whose successor currently posesses a Pair of Dueling Pistols last employed to settle a Matter of Honor on Weehawken Heights, New Jersey in the very early 1800's], extensively used Context Menus [think Right Mouse Button], to handle more than 500 different types of Securities, as well as G-D only knows how many Objects d'Art held in Trust!!!

The Federal Judge is on to something...I wonder just how many shares of M$FT the Patent and Trademark Office Examiner got 'schmeered' to approve the trademark?!?!?

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