Speculation: Microsoft will probably start selling/distributing linux soon

royans.net ^ | Nov 13, 2006 | royans.net

[rzeznikj at stout]

Yep, will gild it later on when I head home...8^)

[rzeznikj at stout]

forgot the call to St. Dogbert...8^)

[JCEccles]

I use Ubuntu Linux and PC BSD. Microsoft has no place in this house.

That's fine. The Microsoft-Novell SUSE linux partnership isn't targeted at you or any other home desktop user anyway. Ubuntu is a fine cottage linux distribution for all the onesies and twosies wonks and wonkettes out there pounding keyboards in their dens and home offices.

The Microsoft-Novell SUSE linux partnership is targeted at businesses. It represents a necessary and healthy maturing and mainstreaming of linux.

I will add this: Novell has a SUSE linux distro for the desktop user (SLED 10) that is absolutely wonderful. I love it.

[MikefromOhio]

Here's your favorite picture Iggle....

[Golden Eagle]

I find it to be absolutely astounding that some people still have the gall to make that kind of a claim after we see thread after thread of people whose MS-Windows is completely borked because they've been infected with some spyware/trojan/worm dejure.

Well most normal people blame hackers for viruses and worms, not the victims. The Linux crowd always wants to blame everyone but the hackers though, which is more interesting.

OSX

Great software, which is why it isn't free.

[MikefromOhio]

[rzeznikj at stout]

Yes, I agree. SLED 10 is very well done--recommending it to friends and family alike...8^)

[rzeznikj at stout]

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[rzeznikj at stout]

[MikefromOhio]

Exactly.

LOL

[rzeznikj at stout]

Now if only we could set the computer to display that all the time (LOL)..8^)

[MikefromOhio]

Well you know, people need to use Windows to know that there is something better out there :)

Windows - The training wheels of computer operating systems

:)

[rzeznikj at stout]

[Constantine XIII]

There is no particular reason why a "For Dummies" Windows-style OS couldn't be built on a Linux foundation. Heck, todays Windows apps can run fine in a Linux environment, as long as it has the proper dlls and what not.

However, it'll be another long train trip down the failroad if they don't distribute the source code or try to prevent users from fiddling with the kernel via other means.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

Is there one out there for those damned COPYLEFTISTS?

[Constantine XIII]

download a little program called ndiswrapper. It'll allow you to use your proprietary windows drivers, which you will have to recover from your Windows partition or your card manufacturer.

Precise instructions can be found by searching the ubuntu forums and wiki. :)

[zeugma]

you're the one who made the claim:

Linux is only free to those whose time is worth nothing.

I merely pointed out that not only is this not the case, but laughingly not. *nix systems are demonstratively more secure than anything Microsoft pushes by orders of magnitude by virtue of the fact that none of that crap I mentioned is necessary to surf the internet with *nix systems.

 

[rzeznikj at stout]

Sure, we're on the bus, remember? 8^)

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

to the convention!!