Why Linux is King and will soon Rule

[Calum]

why not? you obviously care that i don't care, or you wouldn't have bothered replying to me!  

[lazygamer]

Yes Void, I was refering to your comments. Your right, all NON GAME programs should die.

[jtpenrod]

quote:Not only does Longhorn look better than Linux, but it will have the nice benefit of compatability w/all Win32 apps and games(unlike Linux). ;P

I didn't think that anything could possibly look more Fisher-Price-esque than XP. How wrong I was!        "Longhorn" has got to be the ugliest POS in terms of GUIs of all time. Nothing would drive me to the command line, never to return, faster than that.      
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Live Free or Die: Linux

If software can be free, why can't dolphins?

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]

[treydogg526tx]

oh I would LOVE to get in on this one, let me lay down an example.  Put a PC running windows in a graphics environment, life span?  bout 6 months, sorry but it's a fact, and if *nix products suck SO much as zombie says.... then WHY would OSX jag, be *nix based?  hmmm... and I had to laugh out load, (which made people stare casue I'm at work) when you said you couldn't chaneg the background in KDE.  Dude, if you can't change the background image in KDE, you haven't used it, and I don't mind hearing people argue if they can argue both side, but you can't so stop.

[binskipy2u]

i cant believe the zealotism in here..
i am dual booting xp pro/red hat8
and red hat kicks ass by the same token I think XP rocks..
i am neither a linux or windows zealot..but alot of youse' guys comments /rants/ etc.. are misplaced ..
i mean some of you anti linux poeple even touch a linux distro, or just jumping on the bandwagon..i cant think i can say the same for the linux comments, cause i think EVERYONE has used a MS system w/ 9x/me/ before..but i have noticed..when some of the people in the linux camp make comments, and say theyve used linux for a long time? how long? if its over 3 years .. their last experience with windows was 9x/me, and both of those SUCK ASS.. now comparing 2k/xp with linux is more apropo. even nt4 is somewhat comparable..
as for someones comment bout the size of installation .. windows 2k with full installation is 900mb+ (just right click on your c:/windows folder and hit properties if you dont believe me)and xp is 1.3-1.5gigs.. now thats JUST THE OS..if thats not bloat, and many people bring up..but with 200gig hardrives these days and the average size hd in computers today is 40gigs..whats the bigdeal if just the OS takes up 4% of the total size right?
but in defence of linux..that 3 isos you install are all the appz youll EVER NEED..so that person that made that comparison is fulla crap..
as for the apps..lets look at the price..
even if the GIMP(somewhat close to a photoshop equivalent) is 70% of what photoshop can do.. photoshop is 589bucks.. gimp is free id love to have 70% functionality for free then 589bucks down for an app..
abi word is more then enough for most offices.. while office2k was600 office xp was 689 and thats NOT including frontpage, which is 215bucks.. let alone publisher xp which is over 200 sep..
now i'm still a newbie but i'm sure there are comproble appz for office..
and of course theres' openoffice.org.which according to many software reviews is quite nice even compared to office xp..
and i have a p3-750 w/384mb of ram. i opened up 32 desktops and opened 2 or more appz in each one.. NOTHING SLOWED down.. since xp/2k dont have virtual desktop(xp has one, but only 4 virtual desktops) can you open up over 50 appz on windows?
can the average person AFFORD 50 appz for windows?
(forget the warez argument)
so if you are willing to tweak, configure, tinker with an OS you can make more personal then windows will EVER be.and you can handle the reading, searching, forums, etc etc etc to do it.. and willing to take on the learning curve then LINUX is for you..if you like the ease of one click "setup.exe" or if you just wanna slide by and just get on the internet, burn a few cd's and send emails.. and chat.. then windows is all you ever need... but if you want more.. nothing as i can see it, gives more of hands on persona experience then LINUX..
but then again, if you cant take the heat..but to bitch and call others names and prove this and that..its like apples and oranges..me on the other hand lkes the best of both worlds and bitches bout either..i dual boot..
perhaps some of you should too..i mean if you can even understand and RTFM
goodnight all

OH AND BY THE WAY on a few other forums and chatrooms it was already determined, at least i heard the same remarks in many places.that those LONGHORN pictures are just some dude that skined windows XP with some fancy photoshop work.
but then again, just what ive heard/read

[ November 03, 2002: Message edited by: i12bcd8d ]

[Calum]

zombie 90210, have a look at these screenshots:

Konsole

Minix

MacOSX

Eterm

FreeBSD

Commodore 64

FVWM2

Xerox Alto

PDP10

Now, i would be the first to admit that none of those user interfaces looks particularly appealing, however, i think that most if not all of those machines/systems/interfaces had and have more influence on and importance regarding the course of computing than windows or microsoft ever have or had.

[distortion]

hey zombie, i'll be interested to know when you provide with hard, provable facts. so far, you've given us nothing but your own opinions/speculations, and "it looks pretty!"...

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b 2.1:

Zombie, your problem is is that you are retarded and dont realize that Windows is utterly flawed... You might ask "Whats wrong with it" and here we go: .EXE theres your flaw, executable permissions set by File extensions.

Have a nice day!

YOu just keep supporting a Monopoly that will buy out everything unless it is stopped, thats your problem, you dont see past whats yours. Because your an ignorant prick. You dont care about what Microsoft are doing because if you did it might mean that you will do somthing about it, but of cource there would be nothing in that for you would there, nooooo, there isnt. So you dont care you just keep using Operating Systems with 35 year old flaws and problems in the Interface. What you need to do is stop being so selfish and think about things other then yourself.

Of cource you wouldnt do that because you have no social consience and your offically... A RETARD. You have a obsession with your self... That is a disorder... Find a cure.

Ehh, this is coming from somebody who self promotes his own crappy software so much that his fellow Linuxites call him a troll? Haha, you are funny man. BTW, if I'm so retarded then how do I manage to keep my nice paying job, how come I know how to manage my money so well that I can afford about anything I want *after* paying the bills, why did I do well in school and still manage to have friends and have girlfriends, etc. ?

You Aussies are so damn dense. Every last one of you make no fucking sense at all(most Aussies have to say the word fuckin every other word when they speak...like yada yada fuckin yada yada fuckin yada yada), you shit heads talk like you have taffy stuck in your teeth and you all think your ways are perfect and every other nationality(especially Americans) are so bad. You are probably one of those Aussies who sit around and drink beer all day everyday. You probably get so drunk that you start to find Walabes and Kangaroos attractive.         :eek:        

Anyways, enough rambling. Go suck a monkeys' cock and quit talking to me already. I don't like you and I don't think that you make any fucking sense.

(EDIT)This is interesting. You already publicly admited that you are fucking retarded in this thread(see reply #6).

[ November 04, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by distortion:
hey zombie, i'll be interested to know when you provide with hard, provable facts. so far, you've given us nothing but your own opinions/speculations, and "it looks pretty!"...

You'll be interested to know what? I need a more complete statement if you actually expect for me to build a reply from it.  

BTW, isn't the whole OS wars about opinions and speculations? When a Linuxite says Linux is better than Windoze, yada yada that is an opinion. When a Linuxite says that Linux will overthrow Windows that is speculation.

Fact - Microsoft is the dominating force(and has been the dominating force for years now) in the software, OS market.

Fact - Open Source software only imitates what popular closed source software has been able to do for years.

[Bazoukas]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:


You'll be interested to know what? I need a more complete statement if you actually expect for me to build a reply from it.    

BTW, isn't the whole OS wars about opinions and speculations? When a Linuxite says Linux is better than Windoze, yada yada that is an opinion. When a Linuxite says that Linux will overthrow Windows that is speculation.

Fact - Microsoft is the dominating force(and has been the dominating force for years now) in the software, OS market.

Fact - Open Source software only imitates what popular closed source software has been able to do for years.

OMG, what do you smoke man? It must be some real bad weed?

  Windows even from the days of DOS is a fucking copycat.Read your history before you open your mouth.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:


OMG, what do you smoke man? It must be some real bad weed?

  Windows even from the days of DOS is a fucking copycat.Read your history before you open your mouth.

What does Windows copy? It doesn't copy MacOS, Unix, Linux, BeOS, etc. It looks, feels and works nothing like any other OS.

Perhaps maybe MS didn't invent GUI(neither did Apple though mind you). GUI was invented by Xerox(so technically Windows, MacOS, Linux Window Managers, BeOS, etc. stole the GUI idea from Xerox). Really, I want to know what Windows copies. Looking at distros like Lycoris and Lindows it is obvious that Linux tries to *COPY* Windows.

Whats next, are you going to say that MS technologies like DirectX are copied even though you know that no other OS has a propriarity hardware acceleration API?

[ November 04, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

[Bazoukas]

Tell me man, do you have a life?

 Your comments are so moronic that I wont even bother to respond right now. Instead I will continue reading for my Midterm for c++

 Now if you had some brains up there, i wouldnt mind  devoting a good half hour for you.

 But i think you know better than that.
A) You are Just a forum troll

 or

B) You are just a brainwashed  idiot.


 There is no big difference between those two come to think of it.


 Hold your thoughts untill I have the time to reply to you as i realy want.

 Untill then, do the three finger salute few times.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:
Tell me man, do you have a life?

 Your comments are so moronic that I wont even bother to respond right now. Instead I will continue reading for my Midterm for c++

 Now if you had some brains up there, i wouldnt mind  devoting a good half hour for you.

 But i think you know better than that.
A) You are Just a forum troll

 or

B) You are just a brainwashed  idiot.


 There is no big difference between those two come to think of it.


 Hold your thoughts untill I have the time to reply to you as i realy want.

 Untill then, do the three finger salute few times.

No, the only reason you won't reply is because you don't have an answer. You know as well as I know that Windows looks nothing like, works nothing like and feels nothing like any other OS. Therefore, Windows isn't a copy of anything. You also know that it is true that Linux becomes more and more Windows like every time a new distro is released(Redhat is becoming more and more like Windows, Lycoris and Lindows already try to be exactly like Windows).

Now tell me buddy, what did MS copy?

[Bazoukas]

As I said fucktard, I have a Midterm tomorow so FUCK OFF!!!


 You want to educate your piss poor brain?

Here The doors are wide open

  Also do some search on this Web Site and you will find some Links that will educate you.

 Its in front of you fucktard and its simple to understand it.

 But as I said,,

A) You are a troll
or
B) You are an idiot.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:
As I said fucktard, I have a Midterm tomorow so FUCK OFF!!!


 You want to educate your piss poor brain?

Here The doors are wide open

  Also do some search on this Web Site and you will find some Links that will educate you.

 Its in front of you fucktard and its simple to understand it.

 But as I said,,

A) You are a troll
or
B) You are an idiot.

As I said,

A)You can't give me a good reply because you don't have one. End of story.

Now, if you are so hell bent on doing your fucking homework get the hell off of the internet and go do it already. You realize that you are wasting time replying to anybody in a forum when you have homework to do don't you?
Hit the books already junior. ;P