[Message Deleted]
-
Funny.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
-
People are going to think I'm cranky for saying this but you just wasted everyone's time. Now that I've said that I'll give you the rope to either hang me with or redeem yourself with. If you are going to post something like that and not at least say why, then the rest of us should get this rope wet and beat you with it. Instead I'm throwing you this rope and inviting you to use it to climb out of the hole you just dug and explain to us why you would make the claim you just did. Especially since there are only 1.00000999990001184348493% of us who have run Linux, still have a running instance of Linux and have more than just a casual curiosity to see it actually installed so we can mess with mono until our wives get home from the Tupperware party whereupon we go back to Windows and forget Linux for another year or so. So please do... tell me why on earth I should believe you. Keep in mind I run Linux, have since 1996 and enjoy having it. But know the rest of the people here all 99.9999999% of them really don't care to be disturbed by this topic. 1. So tell us all what Ubuntu has done for you. 2. Provide a download link for the curious who you may inspire. 3. If there's some aspect of the platform you are really drawn to provide us a link to that as well. Now... the stage is set. You have our rapt attention. Please begin to justify your claims. :laugh:
-
Please post an update one week from now.
The StartPage Randomizer - The Windows Cheerleader - Twitter
-
People are going to think I'm cranky for saying this but you just wasted everyone's time. Now that I've said that I'll give you the rope to either hang me with or redeem yourself with. If you are going to post something like that and not at least say why, then the rest of us should get this rope wet and beat you with it. Instead I'm throwing you this rope and inviting you to use it to climb out of the hole you just dug and explain to us why you would make the claim you just did. Especially since there are only 1.00000999990001184348493% of us who have run Linux, still have a running instance of Linux and have more than just a casual curiosity to see it actually installed so we can mess with mono until our wives get home from the Tupperware party whereupon we go back to Windows and forget Linux for another year or so. So please do... tell me why on earth I should believe you. Keep in mind I run Linux, have since 1996 and enjoy having it. But know the rest of the people here all 99.9999999% of them really don't care to be disturbed by this topic. 1. So tell us all what Ubuntu has done for you. 2. Provide a download link for the curious who you may inspire. 3. If there's some aspect of the platform you are really drawn to provide us a link to that as well. Now... the stage is set. You have our rapt attention. Please begin to justify your claims. :laugh:
-
Not going to cut it. Come on. Spill your guts. What do you like? It's Friday. Nobody is here. We've got the place to ourselves. Out with it before I show up with Guido and the boys and we get what we are after using other methods. Guido prefers to use a lot of Linux commands on people I won't bother to list here because his kid sister L A U R E N reads this and he'll kill me outright if I so much as even annoy her. So come on... out with it. Hurry up I'm between BSODs and I can tell my time is short.
-
Not going to cut it. Come on. Spill your guts. What do you like? It's Friday. Nobody is here. We've got the place to ourselves. Out with it before I show up with Guido and the boys and we get what we are after using other methods. Guido prefers to use a lot of Linux commands on people I won't bother to list here because his kid sister L A U R E N reads this and he'll kill me outright if I so much as even annoy her. So come on... out with it. Hurry up I'm between BSODs and I can tell my time is short.
-
:thumbsup:
-
Personally I don't care for unbuntu. Too much crud. When working in linux land these days I run ArchLinux and run the awesome window manager (no frills but I love tiling window managers)
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
-
I really don't have the time, but I wanted to respond in kind with why I like OpenVMS:
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
its open source
Nope, it's developed by an experienced team of dedicated professionals under common leadership and a large corporation stands behind it.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
applications dont just randomly fail
Indeed, not ever.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
its much more user freindly
That's up to the applications; users should never have access to the operating system itself.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
all the settings are easily accesible from the Menu
All settings are easily accessible at the command line.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it takes about 2 seconds to find computers on the network
Ummm... maybe... define "find" and "network". Listing nodes in the cluster is generally pretty quick.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it runs quite smoothly
Absolutely, flawlessly, for years at a time.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it has a load of useful in built tools
You bet, tools like BACKUP, MAIL, PHONE, and SHADOW.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
such as the partion editor
WTF is that? :confused:
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it has OpenOffice already installed
Heck no, that's likely to crash the system.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it has a chess game on it
One MicroVAX I used to operate had Cribbage, it probably had chess too.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
the network tools such as Ping are all in one window
All available at the command line.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
you can change pretty much anything you want
Only authorized and privileged system managers are allowed to change anything important. Even then many such changes are logged in the security log.
-
I really don't have the time, but I wanted to respond in kind with why I like OpenVMS:
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
its open source
Nope, it's developed by an experienced team of dedicated professionals under common leadership and a large corporation stands behind it.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
applications dont just randomly fail
Indeed, not ever.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
its much more user freindly
That's up to the applications; users should never have access to the operating system itself.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
all the settings are easily accesible from the Menu
All settings are easily accessible at the command line.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it takes about 2 seconds to find computers on the network
Ummm... maybe... define "find" and "network". Listing nodes in the cluster is generally pretty quick.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it runs quite smoothly
Absolutely, flawlessly, for years at a time.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it has a load of useful in built tools
You bet, tools like BACKUP, MAIL, PHONE, and SHADOW.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
such as the partion editor
WTF is that? :confused:
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it has OpenOffice already installed
Heck no, that's likely to crash the system.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
it has a chess game on it
One MicroVAX I used to operate had Cribbage, it probably had chess too.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
the network tools such as Ping are all in one window
All available at the command line.
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
you can change pretty much anything you want
Only authorized and privileged system managers are allowed to change anything important. Even then many such changes are logged in the security log.
-
Personally I don't care for unbuntu. Too much crud. When working in linux land these days I run ArchLinux and run the awesome window manager (no frills but I love tiling window managers)
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Not heard of ArchLinux, Im new to Linux :)
Lloyd J. Atkinson http://ljasystems.net/
-
I used to use Ubunbtu as my main OS with Windows for games until an update stopped it from recognising my all-in-one Epson. I looked online and found a mess of conflicting suggestions about how to fix it by manually editing setup files, none of which worked, and I eventually decided that I just couldn't be bothered any more and bought XP instead. Haven't looked back since. These days I'd much rather give Adobe £60 for Premier Elements and immediately have a program that just works, than waste days of my life trying to get sub-standard Linux "equivalents" (haha) to (a) work and (b) work together. It's just not worth the effort. Linux / LAMP makes for a good server, but for the desktop, forget it.
-
I used to use Ubunbtu as my main OS with Windows for games until an update stopped it from recognising my all-in-one Epson. I looked online and found a mess of conflicting suggestions about how to fix it by manually editing setup files, none of which worked, and I eventually decided that I just couldn't be bothered any more and bought XP instead. Haven't looked back since. These days I'd much rather give Adobe £60 for Premier Elements and immediately have a program that just works, than waste days of my life trying to get sub-standard Linux "equivalents" (haha) to (a) work and (b) work together. It's just not worth the effort. Linux / LAMP makes for a good server, but for the desktop, forget it.
Really? :( That doesnt sound fun at all :| In that case, im glad ive just downloaded a server edition of Linux :)
Lloyd J. Atkinson http://ljasystems.net/
-
That's what I said - for the first couple of weeks. I hope you don't use sound BTW.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Sound is fine unless you use a Creative Labs card. As soon as I ditched my SB Live, and went with the onboard sound on my motherboard, Linux picked it up just fine. I imagine some of the alternative sound card manufacturers (by "alternative", I mean anything but Creative Labs) may provide direct support for Linux, but since I'm not a soundophile, I don't have any direct experience with that. I look for Linux hardware support solutions on this web site[^].
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
-----
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
I used to use Ubunbtu as my main OS with Windows for games until an update stopped it from recognising my all-in-one Epson. I looked online and found a mess of conflicting suggestions about how to fix it by manually editing setup files, none of which worked, and I eventually decided that I just couldn't be bothered any more and bought XP instead. Haven't looked back since. These days I'd much rather give Adobe £60 for Premier Elements and immediately have a program that just works, than waste days of my life trying to get sub-standard Linux "equivalents" (haha) to (a) work and (b) work together. It's just not worth the effort. Linux / LAMP makes for a good server, but for the desktop, forget it.
Yup. If you do anything more than web browsing, email, editing configuration files, or playing LBreakout, Linux is pointless.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
-----
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
And what do you mean WTF is a partiton editor
I think "WTF" may actually be the name of a Linux partition manager. You know how those open source guys like to give weirdly ironic names to their applications.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
-----
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
And what do you mean WTF is a partiton editor
I think "WTF" may actually be the name of a Linux partition manager. You know how those open source guys like to give weirdly ironic names to their applications.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
-----
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001You're kidding :laugh: , right? Wow, what a random name for the program :-D Yeah, Ive noticed, almost every app Ive used on Linux has some weird name :-D
Lloyd J. Atkinson http://ljasystems.net/
-
That's what I said - for the first couple of weeks. I hope you don't use sound BTW.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Sound?:confused::confused:
Lloyd J. Atkinson http://ljasystems.net/