I just started running ubuntu at home. I’ll think I’ll stick with it over winxp and it’s never ending stream of updates.
Recent fresh install of Windows XP SP2. First Windows update, 89 updates at about 180 MB, not including new versions of the updater. Second update, IIRC around a dozen more, third update a few more. Funny, first time around it installs .NET 1.1, next time the SP for 1.1, next time an update to that SP.
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“I just started running ubuntu at home. I’ll think I’ll stick with it over winxp and it’s never ending stream of updates.”
Umm, Linux and the assorted software packages also have a “never ending stream of updates”, or at least they do if you’re maintaining proper security. Though I’ve belonged to a LUG for almost 10 years, I can’t forsee that I’ll ever use Linux as a primary desktop again. It was fun back when 95/98 was the target to beat, and ‘nix desktops still looked very distinctive (hello, OpenStep!), and running a Linux desktop was, well, fun. Those days are gone. Sorry, but OS X just beats the hell out of it now. I get all the of the goodies underneath (including the BASH shell), with the best user experience in computing on top. Xcode just owns any other GCC front end. Love Linux for servers (longtime Debian guy on servers), but as far as I’m concerned, desktop Linux has been one big mismanaged pile of shiite. GNOME and KDE are still nothing but knockoffs of Windows, which was a knockoff of the Mac. And the militancy of the GPL3 people doesn’t sit well with me anymore. The older I get, the more attractive BSD is starting to look as a server system.