about Linux
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billions of them. Thats the big thing with Linux, the information you need is spread across a million sites and in an order that the best search engines in the world can't manage. I'm not anti-linux at all, I use it at home and at work, but I sometimes wish a proper professional company would get hold of it and sort it out a bit. Before any Linux gurus write in to give me a hammering, I've been a unix man since 1979 (developer), and linux since it was born, my argument is not with the product but with the the well just about everything else about it. There, I've said my piece. http://www.mandrakesoft.com leads to some discussion groups and tutorials, there are some very good programming tutorials too. Also, don't forget news groups, there's about 20 billion billion of those. I lie not. Not often anyway. We do it for the joy of seeing the users struggle.
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billions of them. Thats the big thing with Linux, the information you need is spread across a million sites and in an order that the best search engines in the world can't manage. I'm not anti-linux at all, I use it at home and at work, but I sometimes wish a proper professional company would get hold of it and sort it out a bit. Before any Linux gurus write in to give me a hammering, I've been a unix man since 1979 (developer), and linux since it was born, my argument is not with the product but with the the well just about everything else about it. There, I've said my piece. http://www.mandrakesoft.com leads to some discussion groups and tutorials, there are some very good programming tutorials too. Also, don't forget news groups, there's about 20 billion billion of those. I lie not. Not often anyway. We do it for the joy of seeing the users struggle.
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Rassman wrote: I sometimes wish a proper professional company would get hold of it and sort it out a bit. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if somebody like IBM got involved in developing Linux... ;P
Personally I'd rather see a Microsoft Linux. The only way we'll get any decent tools and resources that do things that we want them to do and not what some lame brained hacker thinks is a cool idea :-) Michael :-)
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Personally I'd rather see a Microsoft Linux. The only way we'll get any decent tools and resources that do things that we want them to do and not what some lame brained hacker thinks is a cool idea :-) Michael :-)
Dead right there. A typical example was a Developer tool which was close to being like MS developers programming environment, when you first look its brilliant then you find the other half of it, the part that makes it useable, costs two arms one leg and a bag of marbles. I am used to programming in vi editors, and having other windows open for make etc, but it would be so nice if I could do it all in one place. But, in linux's favour I would say that, as with unix, its a very uncluttered environment. Mainly because it doesn't have to come out of the box ready to work in all environments in as automated a way as possible. So, if you do have a mojor number crunching maths modeling job to do, a Linux is great for that. Add Samba and you have an effective NT server so its easy to feed it data, let it chew it a while, then pick up the results. We do it for the joy of seeing the users struggle.
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Personally I'd rather see a Microsoft Linux. The only way we'll get any decent tools and resources that do things that we want them to do and not what some lame brained hacker thinks is a cool idea :-) Michael :-)
I totally agree. Microsoft makes very little money off the OS as compared to their other projects, particularly office. I think the antitrust trial should relegate them to no longer having their own OS, and everyone just uses the Linux kernel. It would help Microsoft sell stuff for other platforms, thus increasing their market, while not allowing them to leverage their monopolistic powers. I think it's a win for everyone... But Microsoft is doing some work on FreeBSD (Rotor project: C# to another platform) FreeBSD is also not seen as a cancer because it doesn't use the GPL.
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try linuxdoc.org - not a discussion board but full of information. What do you need help with?
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try linuxdoc.org - not a discussion board but full of information. What do you need help with?
- Thanks pal! - The web site "www.linuxdoc.org" is excellent! - Are there any disscussion boards that I can use? -Regards, Maer