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| Time: 00:03 EST/05:03 GMT | News Source: Time Magazine | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Ready to dump Windows? Rival operating system Linux is showing up in easier-to-use packages. Imagine dining at a restaurant where there are just two dishes on the menu --and because one is being eaten by 90% of your fellow diners, the waiter advises you to order that. That was the choice facing computer consumers throughout the 1990s. You could select from a few relatively pricey Apple computers that ran Mac OS on the one hand, and a horde of cookie-cutter Windows-based PCs on the other. A third operating system, Linux, has been available for free since Linus Torvalds created it in 1991, but for years it was too complex to make it into the mainstream. For most users, Linux was like having to go back into the kitchen and cook a gourmet meal from scratch. Finally, that is starting to change. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 8/21/2002 12:34:23 AM |
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Now you have to pull it out of the freezer, pop it into the microwave, recompile your microwave, cook it, then fix the microwave that broke down, then throw it out and use Windows anyhow. I fail to see the point.
It's sad that the press is so in love with anything that isn't a mega corporation that they have to spam us all with this crap. This post was edited by daz on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 11:29. |
| #2 By 8589 (65.100.120.125) at 8/21/2002 1:51:22 AM |
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Linux still has a long way to go before it is ready for home use. Installing and updating programs is not intuitive, but can be a pain. Adding programs can actually damage the GUI. And Linux is still aimed at corporate use, as it insists on using a Root user. Microsoft at least gives Administrative rights to the owner and/or primary user.
When Linux installs as easily and runs as well in Windows, and hardware companies start writing drivers and apps for their hardware that run just as well in Linux as it does in Windows, and programs install and update without asking for lib files and such, then and only then will Linux be a contender. This post was edited by EWWHWW on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 01:54. |
| #3 By 8589 (65.100.120.125) at 8/21/2002 1:51:25 AM |
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This post was edited by EWWHWW on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 01:53. |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 8/21/2002 5:37:35 AM |
| Open Office can't yet dream of competing with Microsoft Office. |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 8/21/2002 10:31:14 AM |
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Linux zealots keep claiming that the OS is improving, and any day now it will be better than Microsoft's offering.
But how do you keep up with a moving target? |
| #6 By 6859 (204.71.100.215) at 8/21/2002 10:48:05 AM |
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My favorite quote (I don't recall where I heard or read it) is "Linux is a hacker's tool and should be outlawed."
But on a more serious note, a question I have always had is why, exactly, does Linux even have the ability to spoof an IP Address? That functionality should not be supported and serves no purpose. |
| #7 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 8/21/2002 11:11:03 AM |
| Imagine your waiter also telling you that, sure, you can order something that only 1% or so of people are eating. But if you do so, you can't order any appetizers, deserts are out of the question, you have one choice for salad dressing, you'll have to cook the food yourself (but any way you like it... as long as it remains that dish, you submit it for taste-testing to the head chef, and you share the recipe with everyone in the world for free), and the utensils you get are some very strange hook-like things that may take you a few weeks or months to learn how to use to eat. Oh, and you'll have to eat in another room in which the people with whom you eat do little else but complain about and plot the demise of the dish that the 90% of people are eating. |
| #8 By 2459 (24.206.97.178) at 8/21/2002 11:11:54 AM |
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#14 - I think this is a result of BSD sockets implementation. Its support for raw sockets is useful for crafting packets for things like firewalls, etc., but this also allows you to modify the IP information in the packet's header.
This is not specific to Linux, however. This can be done in Windows and MacOS, as well as any other OS that follows the complete BSD sockets implementation. Steve Gibson made a big deal about this a while ago, but the benefits outweigh the potential problems. Also, spoofed IP attacks can also be traced, it just may take a bit longer to do. This post was edited by n4cer on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 11:12. |
| #9 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 8/21/2002 11:32:22 AM |
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I'm still waiting for a decent Linux distribution, just like I'm waiting for flying cars and self running vacuum cleaners. Face it, it isn't going to happen soon.
Even the "good" distributions are extremely fragile. Especially Gnome. It's like fine China it's so fragile. Mess with it or even look at it funny and it stops working. I've never used Gnome for more than 2 days before it started flaking out or just stopped working altogether. I've always had to switch to KDE which is, admittedly, much better in the stability department. |
| #10 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 8/21/2002 4:46:02 PM |
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ThunderRiver - Actually on the desktop side XP is more stable than Linux. As a desktop Linux is really pretty unstable, much of this has to do with X11 and all the crappy window managers and such that get layered on top of it.
Few Linux users seem to be willing to admit that though, and maybe that's why it hasn't improved in that arena. |
| #11 By 7760 (12.155.143.87) at 8/21/2002 9:18:06 PM |
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What is it with Linux lovers and analogies?
"Imagine dining at a restaurant where there are just two dishes on the menu --and because one is being eaten by 90% of your fellow diners, the waiter advises you to order that." "Linux was like having to go back into the kitchen and cook a gourmet meal from scratch." "Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?" I have a hard enough time trying to appreciate Linux without its supporters annoyingly speaking in riddles all of the time. |
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