Here We Go Again!!!

[Frank]

I have to agree with you on the number of distros.. I kept waiting for one
Distro to rule them all...

Proly never happen..."free" is really the problem.

they have to start working on similar paths if they want to go forward

So what is best? Well I think they should make ONE BEST DISTRO, and have
other small projects on the side for those who want to experiment...

One would be a start but proly will never happen..."free' is the main
glitch.

Perhaps Ubuntu has done that already to some point...

many other distros are switching to ubuntu based so they are using the same
code and just changing a few things here and there.

Unbuntu is nothing special...SOS just packaged and wrapped a little
differently.

On the other hand this flexibility is good, because it lets people get into
the linux game, companies try to make their own stuff,
and you can find versions of linux that can do anything, from servers to
media centers ...

Not really...too many chefs spoil the soup...a fact of life.

Its this freedom plus the involvement of millions of people working on this
platform that makes MS scared.

Oh, I don't believe for one min that MS is "scared" of linux at all. It
is not a real desktop threat until such time you can run most of todays
popular software on it.

MS has money and professional programmers, but it cant beat the world! If
more and more people get on the linux train..

More and more people are getting off the linux train...statistically
speaking...they're losing market share.

I don't see how MS can withstand such a force. And indeed this is the
trend.. we will see how things go..

They're going very good for MS, much to your displeasure...

If MS makes windows7 excellent then the masses wont want to switch and they
will retain their dominance...

Well, I hate to tell you this but Vista is the very best desktop OS
available today.
Frank

 

[NoStop]

We will proly be involved in the beta, just like we have been involved
in all MS OS betas since W95B (OSR2).


Months ago. Nothing new in it that makes any difference at all.
Linux has no leadership as evidenced by 350+ distros. Want your own
disto...just do.
Problems with all linux:
1) poor or nonexistence hardware driver support

Bullshit. Supports more legacy hardware than Vista does AND runs on more
different cpu's than Vista does.

2) will not run the most popular software available today.

Popular? Only popular in the Windoze world. But there is much more out there
than just Windoze crapola that is over-priced, poorly supported and closed
source, so that anything can be dumped on your PC.

3) really old and outdated user interface.

Compiz-fusion is the most advanced and modern user interface available for
personal computers today. You sure a lying ****up aren't you Frankie Boy?

Linux is like a ship without a captain that is languishing in still
waters. Frank

So poetic! How did you even manage to string those words together from your
rather limited vocabulary? Plagiarize it from somewhere?

Cheers.

--
Frank's Brain Activity Plotted (watch the red line):
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i4/Astronomy2/PreformanceMonitor.jpg

AlexB: "If it is Business or Ultimate open Command Prompt as administrator
and type lusrmgr.msc."
^^^^^
I must say the developers at Microsoft do have a sense of humour.

 

[NoStop]

Frank doesn't answer questions. He only hurls insults, profanity, lies
and bluster. He's incapable of anything else.

I'll answer them for Frank:

1. He will as soon as it comes out and think it gives him some special
status for doing so, just like with Vista.

You don't think that child is capable of installing any operating system
from scratch, do you? Frankie Boy will be running Windows 7 when he
purchases (or rather his mommy purchases one for him) a new computer
bundled with Windows 7.

2. He's too stupid to install Ubuntu 7.10.

Yep. See above.

Alias
Cheers.

--
Frank's Brain Activity Plotted (watch the red line):
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i4/Astronomy2/PreformanceMonitor.jpg

AlexB: "If it is Business or Ultimate open Command Prompt as administrator
and type lusrmgr.msc."
^^^^^
I must say the developers at Microsoft do have a sense of humour.

 

[Alias]

You don't think that child is capable of installing any operating system
from scratch, do you? Frankie Boy will be running Windows 7 when he
purchases (or rather his mommy purchases one for him) a new computer
bundled with Windows 7.

I didn't mean to imply that Frank would install it himself. He will brag
about it on Usenet though.

Alias

 

[stillarfish]

System stops accepting alll keyboard input till reboot, at random. No extra
processes, only Microsoft. I use only MSN email and IE7, Norton 360. Cursor
prob still exists along with keyboard freeze.

 

[stillarfish]

I'd rather remove Defender but Microsoft has hidden it, doesn't show
installed in Control Panel, but it's there and active!!!

 

[DarkSentinel]

System stops accepting alll keyboard input till reboot, at random. No
extra
processes, only Microsoft. I use only MSN email and IE7, Norton 360.
Cursor
prob still exists along with keyboard freeze.

Think I just found your problem. Norton 360 is pretty much worthless. I did
the trial on my fiancé's XP machine, and it turned it into a total pig.
Sucked resources like you wouldn't believe. Would even interrupt kb inputs
at times. Once I killed I killed it, all returned to normal.

 

[DarkSentinel]

stillarfish,

Uninstall Norton! And then go 'here (Norton removal tool)'
(http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039)
to completely remove Norton. If you don't use the removal tool, you will
still have "tons" of Norton entries in your registry, etc.

Defender is not the problem.

I spent nearly two months testing various AV programs and Norton was
one of the worse in terms of system stability and resource issues.
Norton is notorious for being a resource hog and crippling machines.

In addition to what you have said, here are some comments from Computer
World with users giving their opinion of Norton 360...

http://www.computerworld.com/comments/node/9030667

I ran it on fiancé's XP box for less than a day before I dumped it.
Unbelievably bad piece of software.

 

[stillarfish]

Have narrowed it down to updates received since mid-December, then updates
received in early January repaired then updates received early Feb. broke it
again. Restored back to Early Jan, will wait on SP1 to finish RTM mid-March.
What a pain!!!