Stop Microsoft
Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Jenda on 4 August 2005, 19:37
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Yes. I've been waiting for this about six months. Finally home, and now I did it. An Ubuntu-Mandrake dual boot!
Count me in, GNU/Linux!
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Maybe you can change the 'Location' in yer profile now ;)
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Yes. I've been waiting for this about six months. Finally home, and now I did it. An Ubuntu-Mandrake dual boot!
Count me in, GNU/Linux!
should be converting soon until the household occupants get used to ubuntu live cd.
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Ubuntu is nice. So far its running great :)
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Congrats. Win9x is the scourge of computing.
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Congrats. Win9x is the scourge of computing.
Yup. It was torture. Every bootup. Every prog launch. Every keystroke. Every goddamm click.
Maybe you can change the 'Location' in yer profile now (http://../ubb/ubb/wink.gif)
:DYup. I'm on it.
[OFFTOPIC]BTW if you're wondering what happenned to the Linux Agora: I must've offended BB somehow. I'm guessing it was when we got our own hosting and he told me to have a look around, giving me the username and pwd. I went through every object in the backend and worte comments, suggestions or questions about each of them in a PM I later sent to him. The last object was User Info. I clicked it and as soon as I realised it contains his name and adress, I left the site (honestly: I really do not recall any of what I _glimpsed_ there), but stupidly made a joke about it in the comments I sent. He probably added me to his ignore list and deleted all my emails ever since. Removed me from his "buddy list" in MSN (which I do not use anymore) and I never heard from him since...[/OFFTOPIC]
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Well now, how absolutely clever of your avatar. Might have to start using my proxy anyhow!
But, hey, you are absolutely right also, my OS does suck or I wouldn't be on this forum, now would I?
My friend at Lobby4Linux is sending me a PCLinux CD to see if it will run on my poor little computer with only a Pentium 3, 256 RAM, and 10 G HD. I'm on that forum too, you ninny. He is nice enough to do that for me so maybe I wouldn't have to spend the extra money that I don't have on a computer before February because as of February Micro$uck will force IE on you if you want XP. So instead of greeting someone who is on this forum for a reason, maybe you should offer something a little more compelling like "I see you don't like Micro$uck either.
I came here today to look at the posts about Linux to see if I could familiarize myself with their OS, because I am a newbie and it only took me 4 months to figure out the name of the game with Micro$uck. Got it.....Ok then.;)
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Well now, how absolutely clever of your avatar. Might have to start using my proxy anyhow!
But, hey, you are absolutely right also, my OS does suck or I wouldn't be on this forum, now would I?
My friend at Lobby4Linux is sending me a PCLinux CD to see if it will run on my poor little computer with only a Pentium 3, 256 RAM, and 10 G HD. I'm on that forum too, you ninny. He is nice enough to do that for me so maybe I wouldn't have to spend the extra money that I don't have on a computer before February because as of February Micro$uck will force IE on you if you want XP. So instead of greeting someone who is on this forum for a reason, maybe you should offer something a little more compelling like "I see you don't like Micro$uck either.
I came here today to look at the posts about Linux to see if I could familiarize myself with their OS, because I am a newbie and it only took me 4 months to figure out the name of the game with Micro$uck. Got it.....Ok then.;)
Wow, you can read a signature that contains PHP code that checks your systype and IP, then complain about it in a grossly annoying fontsize. What are you, five?
All kidding aside, I was unaware that Microsoft is now forcing MSIE installs with XP updates (though they've been pre-loading it with Windows for YEARS now), do you have an article link to that or some other hard evidence?
Finally, you seem to have decided to post based on someone else's signature, an ill-informed rationale but not entirely without merit. What *is* PCLinux? I'm familiar with Slackware, (K)ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE, Vector, and a handful of others but I'm not familiar with that particular distribution. As for the whole here, I believe I speak for it when I say we'd be happy to help in your transition away from Microsoft products.
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What *is* PCLinux?
Something very old. IIRC.
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hahaha, welcome to the forums, or something.
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What the hell is wrong with you idiots, Ubuntu is by far the worst Linux distribution on the entire earth. I wish the GPL gave Torvalds the power to BAN it.
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What the hell is wrong with you idiots, Ubuntu is by far the worst Linux distribution on the entire earth. I wish the GPL gave Torvalds the power to BAN it.
You forgot Linspire.
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Yes. And I plan on keeping it that way.
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I've used both of those, they are worse than suckage (about as bad as Windows :D)
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Yeah, Ubuntu is susposed to be for n00bs but I have to compile some packages manually (REALLY USER FRIENDLY) because their apt repository contains out of date buggy versions (gaim for instance was 0.81 or some shit and would crash all the time).
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Hahaha, what a load of wank. :rolleyes:
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I'm perfectly happy with my Ubuntu. I use it because it is the right thing to do.
I am not a geek, and don't plan to become one. Kintaro, you're really being childish, trying to make GNU/Linux a geeks-only OS. That is just wrong.
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Perhaps there should be geeks-only distros, and newb-only distros. Start with Ubuntu or something, and then you can graduate to SuSE. Once you get past Slackware, you can start building your own distro.
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I've only been using Linux for about a year, I used it for 8 months straight without Windows even on my hard disc, and that was great. ;)
Slackware was really easy to install for me, and I'd never tackled an installer like that before, so it surprised me. :)
Kintaro is not being childish, it is right to say that average Linux users learn much more about computers than the average Windows user. :D
I think Slackware isn't that hard at all, apart from getting X started up it's fine, Gentoo would be more of a tackle, though. ;)
My dad introduced me to Red Hat 9, and when I first used it, it was amazing, I was so amazed by the amount of things that Linux could do that Windows couldn't (and the speed of it, also).
That's why I now use Slackware, because I like to use a wide range of distributions, before choosing whichever one I am most comfortable with.
I am thinking of installing SuSE 9.3, just to evaluate it, because it looks very nice, my dad bought it a while back. :thumbup: