Fed Up With Vista Yet? Come Join Us In The Friendly Linux Community.

[canixs]

Linux or FreeBSD, I heard FreeBSD is more stable than Linux and had a lots
of ported software available. Linux, FreeBSD, Redhat linuxs, MacOS, and
many more which one is referred here?. They are all UNIX core underneath,
and I had used them all, the people chose windows because, that's the only
one they know and it's everywhere. if you go out on the street and randomly
ask a person if they know the term Linux, they probably will said "what are
you talking about?" And especially try to find a hardware in store which
said linux supported.

My conclusion is in the past, people preferred have linux or widely said
Unix as server is because it's a clean operating system, no extra stuff only
compile and run whatever you need to run. this reduce a lot of load on the
CPU and make the server is more responsive and faster then window server.
That's the past, now CPU can handle much more load compare with the one in
past, and extra stuff and Window User interface become only small faction of
the total load in the system. I still preferred to run window server on my
server and window vista on personal computer even I have the ability to
compile my own kernnel in Linux.

Have a nice day,

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Actually, I heard about Ubuntu (thanks NoStop) in these very MS
newsgroups and went and got it so you're wrong.

In essence you're saying that the end justifies the means.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

That person, Roy Schestowitz, appears to be some kind of a uber zealot
who lives over on digg.com and comp.os.linux.advocacy.
His motives are more than likely sincere, but his methods which
include spamming the group with Vista hate material are crude.

It's interesting that you compare Linux users to religious zealots
because someone over on www.digg.com compared Roy Schestowitz to Pat
Robertson.

At least Pat Robertson doesn't come knocking on my front door,
wasting my precious time. I wish the Linux zealots would show
as much class.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

Good point, great job. That sums it up very well.

 

[Alias]

In essence you're saying that the end justifies the means.

Gary VanderMolen

No, I'm saying the cause had an effect.

Alias

 

[John Locke]

Linux sucks.

112,000,000 pirate Windows users can't be wrong.

Yes and 112,000,000 lemmings marching to the sea to drown aren't
wrong either.

 

[John Locke]

Ok, I took you up on your offer. I installed Ubuntu.

My video card wont install
Only one monitor has a signal
My sound card wont install
My scanner doesn't work

Sounds like you tried to install Ubuntu on your toaster.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Well, I'll agree to disagree with you on this... Linux and Apple zealots put
Windows zealots to shame when it comes to spitting out vitirol and dissin'
the other side. Don't have metrics on that, but... one pass through the
different NG's would verify, methinks...

Lang

 

[Rod]

We Linux users feel sympathy for the poor souls who have made the
mistake of downgrading to Vista.
We are offering a no questions asked confession of the soul type
agreement over in comp.os.linux.advocacy.
Please tell us about your Vista nightmares and confess your
frustration with trying to get Pista to work.

To prove I'm not exaggerating, I'll dump a directory.

Volume in drive Q is Linux Images
Volume Serial Number is D015-A25B

Directory of Q:\

24/02/2007 06:48 AM 25,427,968 6.2-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso
24/02/2007 07:01 AM 544,694,272 6.2-RC1-i386-disc1.iso
24/02/2007 07:17 AM 670,425,088 6.2-RC1-i386-disc2.iso
24/02/2007 07:46 AM 671,778,816 CentOS-4.4-x86_64-bin1of4.iso
24/02/2007 08:02 AM 667,609,088 CentOS-4.4-x86_64-bin2of4.iso
24/02/2007 08:15 AM 668,264,448 CentOS-4.4-x86_64-bin3of4.iso
24/02/2007 08:29 AM 553,631,744 CentOS-4.4-x86_64-bin4of4.iso
26/02/2007 06:01 PM 0 dir.txt
25/02/2007 08:28 AM 3,525,195,776 FC-6-i386-DVD.iso
18/10/2006 12:04 PM 4,088,006,656 FC-6-x86_64-DVD.iso
24/02/2007 07:04 PM 702,605,312 feisty-alternate-i386.iso
25/02/2007 03:04 PM 731,160,576 feisty-desktop-i386.iso
25/02/2007 11:14 AM 4,324,202,496
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1DVD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
18/02/2007 09:11 AM 27,630,936
kororaa-2005-beta2-r1-install.iso
03/10/2006 10:39 PM 713,097,216 kororaa-aiglxgl-0.3.iso
07/04/2006 07:28 PM 728,260,608 kororaa-xgl-livecd-0.2.iso
04/04/2006 12:38 PM 641,851,392
kororaa64-2005-beta2-r1-packages.iso
24/09/2006 11:53 PM 715,732,992
livecd-i686-installer-2006.1.iso
05/10/2006 05:00 PM 732,547,072
mandriva-free-2007-CD1.x86_64.iso
05/10/2006 05:00 PM 733,849,600
mandriva-free-2007-CD2.x86_64.iso
05/10/2006 05:01 PM 734,066,688
mandriva-free-2007-CD3.x86_64.iso
05/10/2006 06:02 AM 726,220,800
mandriva-free-2007-CD4.x86_64.iso
25/02/2007 12:33 AM 3,880,814,592 openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso
26/02/2007 07:17 AM 1,480,370,176 SL-9.3-LiveDVD-i386-1.iso
24/02/2007 07:47 PM 730,931,200 ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso
25 File(s) 29,018,375,512 bytes
0 Dir(s) 38,486,261,760 bytes free

Now. I attempted to install every single one of those distros on this
box that's currently running Vista and XP. The only one that actually
booted and saw a network and my disks was the Knoppix live DVD. Sadly
you can't install it.

FC6 installed, couldn't compile the several drivers I found for my
network card, no-one in the friendly linux community could help me
beyond that. They were friendly though.

SUSE 10.2, Mandriva, CentOS, Ubuntu.. varying degrees of success but
none of them capable of installing an OS that wouldn't have taken
hours (and judging by the forums I searched, very fruitless..) to
even get to the point of booting.

XP, installed 1st time without a hint of a drama, fresh install of
Vista exactly the same.

So I could either have several Linux DVD's to adore lovingly, mounted
next to my PC or actually use my PC. Since I'm using it, you can
probably predict the path I took.

Cheers,
Rod.

 

[Gordon Keenan]

We Linux users feel sympathy for the poor souls who have made the
mistake of downgrading to Vista.
We are offering a no questions asked confession of the soul type
agreement over in comp.os.linux.advocacy.
Please tell us about your Vista nightmares and confess your
frustration with trying to get Pista to work.

Come join us and try a real operating system that has 1000's of free
applications bundled with it and costs nothing.
Free.
As in free beer.

What do you have to lose?
A couple of hours of your time installing Linux and giving it a try?
Hell, you don't even have to install Linux to try it.
Simply go here:
www.distrowatch.org
and download a LiveCD which will allow you to run a full Linux from
your CD without touching your hdisks.

So come and join a friendly group and let's talk about Linux!
Racine

Why not look at it a different way?

Will Linux run my legal copy of Adobe Photoshop?
Will Linux run my Sony applications?

I base my needs of the functionality I require. Linux does not offer "me"
anything that an MS operating system does not provide me with, and in turn,
it's why I use it... oh and I can make cash out of it as well

 

[Justin]

Notice no one has answered your actual question yet? Unless you count alias
attempting to speak for the world and ignoring all statistics.

 

[Justin]

On 25 Feb 2007 10:31:39 -0800, (e-mail address removed) wrote:
Well, in Apple's case it is because they insist on making you buy their
hardware to run the OS. There is no reason they have to do it that way
though since they went Intel. I expect a lot of people would buy Mac OSX
is
they allowed it to install to PC hardware easily.

The only reason OSX is as stable as it is, is because it only has to run on
a handful of different machines. Same reason our nintendos are so stable.

If Apple put forth the effort to open it up to all hardware then everyone
would cry about the new price for it.

 

[Alias]

Notice no one has answered your actual question yet? Unless you count
alias attempting to speak for the world and ignoring all statistics.

So, hot shot, why don't you answer the question?

Alias

 

[Justin]

Ok, I took you up on your offer. I installed Ubuntu.

My video card wont install
Only one monitor has a signal
My sound card wont install
My scanner doesn't work

With Vista all my hardware works. Granted the sound drivers suck but at
least it works.

So, your offer sucks.

 

[Alias]

Sounds like you tried to install Ubuntu on your toaster.

He's lying. He didn't install Ubuntu.

Alias

 

[Max]

I did.
Can you explain to me how to access 'it' across a "Vista" network with Samba
sharing enabled?

 

[Conor]

Speak for yourself. I have both Linux and XP on all three of my
computers. I paid for each of the XP copies. I don't do pirated software.

144,000,000 people did. That's 144,000,000 people who would rather put
up with all the hassle involved with WGA notifications and workarounds
etc than install Linux.

 

[Conor]

I did.
Can you explain to me how to access 'it' across a "Vista" network with Samba
sharing enabled?

Do you remember DOS? Good. Because you're gonna have to do a whole load
of editing of config files.

 

[Alias]

144,000,000 people did. That's 144,000,000 people who would rather put
up with all the hassle involved with WGA notifications and workarounds
etc than install Linux.

So, are you one of them?

Alias

 

[Max]

No no no!
You must be mistaken because I was lead to believe that Ubuntu was 'easy'
and everything needed was included and everything 'just works'.
And now you imply that Ubuntu is the 'water', and I am the 'horse'?
Oh no. I'm not that thirsty.