Why Linux might be able to put M$ out of business soon:

na, if Linux passes them Microsoft will find a way to match them, give it for free (or cheaper than Linux) then make it slightly better, let it be widely used, then version 2 they sell it, make money and ram Linux off the rail once and for all:D
 
nattyg said:
Help me out here...how are their tests close to equivalent? Example:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2410&p=11
http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2463&p=6

so...lemme get this straight, different hardware, different test parameters and different software running on the machines


/cry

l2science anandtech
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Yeah, looks that way.

1 is good for gaming, the other is good for other stuff than games.

Linux is free, but would require that person to know programing and coding.
M$ is not free, especially Vista, so expensive!
 
You don't need to know how to program to use linux. Common sense and a willingness to learn is all it takes.

I switched my desktop to only linux (Fedora 8) and have loved every minute of it. It took about 2 hours to migrate from Fedora 7 to 8 (clean install) with all my settings and all the drivers installed, try doing that with windows :P
 
vibrokatana said:
You don't need to know how to program to use linux. Common sense and a willingness to learn is all it takes.

I switched my desktop to only linux (Fedora 8) and have loved every minute of it. It took about 2 hours to migrate from Fedora 7 to 8 (clean install) with all my settings and all the drivers installed, try doing that with windows :P
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Heh, I had to do that when I got my SataII HDD, installing every game, software and its patches all over again, especially downloading from Steam. -_-

Then, Linux should not be used with people that don't know how to run a computer; using a anti-virus program monthly; trying to tell them copy and paste can be used by dragging then right-clicking on the mouse. X_X
 
vibrokatana said:
I switched my desktop to only linux (Fedora 8) and have loved every minute of it. It took about 2 hours to migrate from Fedora 7 to 8 (clean install) with all my settings and all the drivers installed, try doing that with windows :P
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This is definitely true. I just got a new gaming desktop and as soon as I built it, I dual-booted Ubuntu and XP, and it took me about 2 hours to copy all my settings and programs from my Ubuntu laptop to the desktop, whereas to copy all my XP programs and settings it took me about 3 days. Package management is the best thing ever-- automatic updates for everything, indexed search for programs you need, and no more digging through stacks of discs to install and installing everything one at a time. It was quite a hassle.
 
kraniac said:
This is definitely true. I just got a new gaming desktop and as soon as I built it, I dual-booted Ubuntu and XP, and it took me about 2 hours to copy all my settings and programs from my Ubuntu laptop to the desktop, whereas to copy all my XP programs and settings it took me about 3 days. Package management is the best thing ever-- automatic updates for everything, indexed search for programs you need, and no more digging through stacks of discs to install and installing everything one at a time. It was quite a hassle.
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Thats cool. further explains why so many people are going Linux. oh BTW: im not buying Vista...im trying to win it in a case mod contest so even if i don't love it it was free:D
 
Corpfox said:
Then, Linux should not be used with people that don't know how to run a computer; using a anti-virus program monthly; trying to tell them copy and paste can be used by dragging then right-clicking on the mouse. X_X
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hmm, control c and v work fine. Linux doesn't need antivirus, in fact almost all ClamAV does is eliminate windows viruses (lol).
 
yes they have..but the severity of the exploits have been lower..also the typical time to fix the exploits is typically measured in days..or hours..not month or years as is typical for for many ms problems.
 
nattyg said:
.../cough...

visit cert

both *nix and services running on the variants have had numerous exploits
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*nix style machines have everything jailed, Linux and *BSD use actual filesystem permissions, most of the time while logged in I can only mess with files in /home/$USER which means anything that might happen only messes with a small portion of the machine.

Windows exploits tend to be admin level exploits due to the fact that you pretty much need admin to just use the machine (UAC fixes it somewhat but people disable it because it is ANNOYING). Plus microsoft pretty much admits there are some exploits they will never fix.

I tend to look at it this way: If your OS has a multi-billion dollar industry to cover up holes in your OS, then you have a really bad security problem.
 
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