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WinXP: an OS for Linux lovers | |
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| Time: 15:01 EST/20:01 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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The day that we've all feared is soon to arrive: Microsoft has finally made an operating system that Linux users will love: Windows XP. eXPonentially bad No, it wasn't the 25-character installation code key, or the 52-character OS-generated registration key that needs to be submitted to Microsoft--followed by the responding registration key that needs to be inserted into XP. It was more of just how much XP reminded me of Linux when I installed it. There sat a system with a 933Mhz Pentium III, 128MB of SDR SDRAM, DVD and CD-RW drives, an Aureal SQ2500 sound card, and an nVidia GeForce2 MX graphics card. Windows 95, 98, and ME had passed through that box without any real incident. Now it was time for XP. | ||
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| #1 By 531 (12.23.166.211) at 9/7/2001 4:47:22 PM |
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Gee... I'm glad this guy didn't do any research, like looking at the HCL or finding out whether or not his software would be compatible...
Yeah, how about I tie a blindfold around my head and write an article. Cool, man. I dig it. |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/7/2001 5:09:06 PM |
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Linux users aren't terribly bright. :)
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| #3 By 135 (64.214.61.241) at 9/8/2001 1:39:57 PM |
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benj... I always find it amazing when someone tries to communicate their supreme knowledge at a 1st grade reading level.
I've used Linux since 1992. Although only off and on since 1997 when I switched to all NT. Why just last night I decided to install RedHat 7.1 on a spare computer to give to my brother. From the start I knew I was in trouble. I had forgotten the detailed specs on the video card. I knew it was a Diamond Stealth 2000, but I forgot how much memory it had on it. I was confident it was 4 Megs, so I selected that. Well that caused some problems, but first I had to deal with another issue. Upon restarting the OS, fsck complained about some corrupted inode pointing to something it wasn't supposed to. I went huh? RedHat install caused the restart, this filesystem shouldn't be corrupt. It dropped me to a command prompt. I struggled a bit trying to remember how to use fsck, and finally just randomly typed 'fsck /', and that seemed to work. I then spent the next five minutes answering questions 'SUCHandSUCH file has a corrupt inode, do you want to fix?" Well that was finally done, so now we can get back to my original problem... The misselection of video card memory resulted in a corrupted display where the mouse looked like a giant waffle. So I went looking around both KDE and Gnome control panels for display properties to change this. Didn't have much luck, so I went to a command line and edited the XF86Config file to indicate I had 2 Megs of display memory. Restarted X and that fixed it. So now I'm trying to figure out what to do with this box. The most interesting thing is that Linux with KDE or Gnome runs much slower on this thing(P166MMX w/64Megs RAM) than Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I double click on configuration utilities and they take a minute to come up. So my goal now is to install a printer. Not having much luck finding the control applet to do this with. This shouldn't even be that hard... I have a Postscript laser printer attached to a Win2k server which is running Print Services for Unix. i.e. lpd. No such luck. Starting up a Win2k desktop I'd be up and running printing in a manner of seconds. |
| #4 By 135 (64.214.61.241) at 9/8/2001 9:22:18 PM |
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Ok, how is this for a transmission argument. Linux is a manual transmission without synchros and a hand clutch. Yeah you can drive it and it can be competitive, but you sure have to go through a lot of nonsense to make it work. :)
I'm afraid I don't buy your argument about knowing your system well. I do know my systems well, all 7 of them. Despite that fact I still find Linux to be frustrating to install. Although granted RedHat 7.1 is a lot better than the old SLS distribution I started with. BTW, my car is a 5-speed sports sedan. |
| #5 By 135 (64.214.61.241) at 9/9/2001 12:44:57 PM |
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This is only because to successfully install Linux you have to know your hardware. But I would hardly argue the "average Linux user" point because if you follow the Linux support forums you'll see a great many questions about this. I think in many cases people just get frustrated and give up... thus not becoming Linux users.
This thread was spawned by some moron writing an article putting Windows down, and by extension Windows users. So why can't we have a bit of fun? I don't see why you think the open source model is a worry, as it's pretty much ended up being a complete failure. |
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