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Anybody running WINME with any distro of Linux..?
Hello group... :-
Just an enquiry...not flippant...but I managed to duel boot WinME with SuSE 9 Prof.. joined up with a Linux user group It will remain anon.. ... mentioned my duel boot setup...my point.. and question.. .purely from a WinME point of view... thus the post to this group...did anybody get an "attitude problem" from the Linux group...ie why are you using "Windoze"..."Get yourself a real operating system..."etc... I guess I'm talking about this so called Redmond Seattle OpenSource... camp mentality...you know ...never the twain shall meet...any opinions?.. the opinions I got from the Linux group were mixed..ie anything from the puerile "geek"..to a more considered adult attitude... about how and why you adopt a particular operating system to use.... Yours Alan P.S. I really would like the groups opinion on this... :- |
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Alan
What you got was a fairly typical flaming from an uneducated and uncaring minority. I'd suggest that you change your newsgroup rather than your OS!g I've never used Linux - and see no present need to ever do so (except for curiosity) - so can't comment on it's (supposedly) perceived superiority over Windows, however, some general comments may be in order. 1) Linux out-of-the-box is no more secure than Windows 2) the general capabilities of the users of Linux may have been higher than those of Windows users in the past - but this is evening out as time goes on and the hype surrounding Linux takes hold. 3) the result of the above is likely to lead to an explosion in discovered vulnerabilities in Linux, as the script-kiddies find ways, and dupes, to infect Linux PC's. 4) the OS as a mass-distribution has yet to prove itself under the sort of sustained attack that Windows has endured for the past 10 years (my - has it really been that long?). Linux, from what I hear, is extremely good at certain things - and rubbish at others. Windows perforce has had to be a generalist OS - and has succeeded admirably for the vast majority of its users. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Alan" wrote in message ... Hello group... :- Just an enquiry...not flippant...but I managed to duel boot WinME with SuSE 9 Prof.. joined up with a Linux user group It will remain anon.. ... mentioned my duel boot setup...my point.. and question.. .purely from a WinME point of view... thus the post to this group...did anybody get an "attitude problem" from the Linux group...ie why are you using "Windoze"..."Get yourself a real operating system..."etc... I guess I'm talking about this so called Redmond Seattle OpenSource... camp mentality...you know ...never the twain shall meet...any opinions?.. the opinions I got from the Linux group were mixed..ie anything from the puerile "geek"..to a more considered adult attitude... about how and why you adopt a particular operating system to use.... Yours Alan P.S. I really would like the groups opinion on this... :- |
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I've never used Linux - and see no present need to ever do so (except for
curiosity) - My reason is because Microsoft are heading towards a software rental model and ultimately a future where you don't control your computer, they do. so can't comment on it's (supposedly) perceived superiority over Windows, however, some general comments may be in order. I will. The *superiority* is generally touted by the archetypal *nerd*, ie sits in front of computer all day, tells self he's superior because, eg, he gets maths and physics and could conquer the world if he put his mind to it. He doesn't like Windows because before Windows he was deferred to as an expert and now he's ignored as a social inadequate. If he had the intelligence to understand the utility of computers and thus of Windows, he'd probably write viruses for them. But like anyone hammering on about *superiority*, he's trying to deflect from feelings of the opposite. 1) Linux out-of-the-box is no more secure than Windows Well, now that SP2 is out, fewer XP users will be infected the moment they first go online. Those same users won't be able to get Linux running, quite apart from there are no worms permanently trying to infect Linux like Blaster and Sasser. 2) the general capabilities of the users of Linux may have been higher than those of Windows users in the past - but this is evening out as time goes on and the hype surrounding Linux takes hold. See above. Well, it may be going that way but it sure as hell ain't there yet! Linux is much more difficult than Windows. But that probably is the point, anyhow, as when Linux is as useable as Windows it'll be, IMO, as insecure. 3) the result of the above is likely to lead to an explosion in discovered vulnerabilities in Linux, as the script-kiddies find ways, and dupes, to infect Linux PC's. To an extent true. But there's rather more executable scope in Windows. 4) the OS as a mass-distribution has yet to prove itself under the sort of sustained attack that Windows has endured for the past 10 years (my - has it really been that long?). Linux, from what I hear, is extremely good at certain things - and rubbish at others. Windows perforce has had to be a generalist OS - and has succeeded admirably for the vast majority of its users. That's what Linux is aiming at. Given the differences of budgetary scale, it's not doing bad. But, to re-iterate, if the aim is to rival Windows, it has to be as utilitarian and it's nothing like it now. As I've opined before re Mozilla, MS is becoming more security conscious and Open Source more utility conscious and the two are converging. Shane |
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