Posted on 03/25/2009 8:25:34 PM PDT by brycemax
Thought about dumping windows? Why not replace it with Cuba's Linux variant called "Nova." Check out this "Geeks on Caffeine" cartoon and see why "Nova" will be your next operating system! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you please visit his web site and also please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you very much!
Oh boy.....
Why needlessly diss Linux and inaccurate ascribe technical and economic progress to Windows just to make a point about communism?
Windows wouldn’t exist without Unix and its variants (including Linux). Even Solaris is open source right now. Ande Mac is essentially BSD.
I just saved multiple thousands running my servers off Linux, I guess I’m evil.
Well, you have to ask the author that. However, it seems that you don’t have a grasp on linux Vs. Windows.
To say that Windows hasn’t changed the way we conduct business, manufacture goods, transfer information shows you lack perspective. It is the single greatest technical achievement in terms of job growth, innovation, wealth building and education in the history of man. To say otherwise is to deny its pervasiveness in all aspects of the world economy.
Linux is...well...free. And it’s crap. Nobody should have to enter line code if you want to upgrage your video card! Its impact on commerce is even less than Apple’s OSX and it has not been widely implemented in any business or technical field since its introduction. It simply is an inferior operating system that is a distant third behind OSX and Windows.
It’s really hard to tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, or maybe you just work for Microsoft. Either way you have been misinformed. Let’s start with this:
“To say that Windows hasn’t changed the way we conduct business, manufacture goods, transfer information shows you lack perspective. It is the single greatest technical achievement in terms of job growth, innovation, wealth building and education in the history of man. To say otherwise is to deny its pervasiveness in all aspects of the world economy.”
Insert “microprocessor” for “Windows” in that paragraph and you may be right. As it is, the computer revolution took off long before Windows, and in the industrial, business, and science sectors, it wasn’t even really a force until NT came along. Even now, the UNIXes (BSD, Solaris, Linux, etc.) dominate in areas where serious stability is required.
Window’s main success is in the desktop OS market, but even then it was not the driving force. Any OS could have filled this void. It was the microprocessor, the Internet, and applications such as databases, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, etc. that drove the computer revolution. Windows hitched its wagon to the most economically viable platform at the time (IBM) and exploited their ignorance.
Windows is a business success (on the desktop OS market), not a major technical achievement (which UNIX was) or a major innovator. To say otherwise reveals a lack of computer science knowledge. I won’t toot my own own, but suffice it to say I know of what I speak.
You are simply ascribing achievements to it which it does not deserve. That is an objective fact, it has nothing to do with the passionate platform wars that break out among computer users.
And then this:
“Linux is...well...free. And it’s crap. Nobody should have to enter line code if you want to upgrage your video card! Its impact on commerce is even less than Apple’s OSX and it has not been widely implemented in any business or technical field since its introduction. It simply is an inferior operating system that is a distant third behind OSX and Windows.”
Linux (depending on the distro) is far more user-friendly than you or its foes seem to think. It’s not “crap,” in fact studies on user-friendliness have shown that OSX, Windows, and Linux don’t have major differences in 99% of tasks a computer user needs to do. To say that its business impact has been less than OSX, or that it hasn’t been widely implemented in a technical field or business is, well, jaw-droppingly ignorant and about the exact opposite of the truth. Major companies from Intel to IBM have invested heavily in Linux, contributed code, adapted it for their own purpose and shared it with the world (as is required by the license). It is used on cell phones and supercomputers, game consoles and workstations, in the movie industry, the server industry, just about everywhere. It is a major player in the computer world.
Personally, I welcome our new Marxist overlords.
You're either parroting others and/or you don't have a clue about present day Linux. I installed openSUSE_x86_64 on a T61 Thinkpad (came with Vista Business), and after one (just one) reboot, I was up and running with a logical volume manager, bootmanager for Linux and Vista, wireless, and all the KDE "eye candy". Plugged my Canon 20D into the USB port (only because the built-in 4 in 1 card reader doesn't do CF cards) and it brought up the camera and transfered the files. Can burn multi-layer DVD's and do everything I require my computer to do. I even have W2K running in "VirtualBox" (a free Sun VM application), for when I want to play a couple of win based games I have laying around.
As for the Vista partition, I'm going to delete it and give the space over to LVM. I don't need Vista, I don't like Vista. If I need winders, the W2K virtualbox works just fine, no reboot required.
Not bad for a "crappy" free OS.
It's nice to have choices.
LOL! Well, I shoulda knowed...the last Mint distribution included an entry for time zone of your gulag. Sure was purty, though...
I run XP on my desktop for work and they got this one right—I’ve avoided going to Vista and NT wasn’t as good as XP has proven to be. But all our servers run Unix (Solaris in our case).
On my home computers I run all of them on different machines—Windows, OS X, a few flavors of Linux, Solaris. Of them all, OS X is the one I like best for home stuff, but I appreciate the freedom of linux—any hardware, any software, I can see the code, modify it if I choose (and know how). It hasn’t always been user-friendly, but I like a challenge.
I certainly wouldn’t use Cuba or the PRC’s version. Never know what they embedded in it.
My wallet spits on your random proclamations.
My Mac OSX spits on your line code.
Appears to be hankies all around.
[My Mac OSX spits on your line code.]
Nothing against BSD Macs, but my Linux server is solid as a rock and has been for years. Line code for servers is actually a plus in most instances. And Linux is fine as a desktop, just a couple apps left to go.
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