Ready for Linux?

Bernie said:
I think with Microsoft supplying Windows office 2010 Lite or what ever they going to call it for free (albeit with an advert) we will find that there is even less reason for anyone to switch, even from a cost perspective if all a person requires is basic excel and word functionality. I say Linux is Lekker (probably better as a server), Windows wins on the desktop, especially windows 7 /office 2010.
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I have been using computers since 1980. (Sperry UniVAC, ForTran)

I believe the Microsoft OS, when combined with Active Directory are WINNERS !!!
The two offer excellent security and ease of adoption where flexibility, stability, integration and cost (especially Admin costs/fees) are concerned.
After using MS products since DOS, and then using Windows through to the current versions, these are currently the best technologies, and are constantly getting better.
Open source may be free but security from viruses are the ultimate challenge. You can't protect open source.
 
Only problem I have with Linux is that it will never have Blu-ray support, Blu-ray being proprietary and Linux being open source.
 
Running Linux Mint as my HTPC, I really recommend it to those who are just starting out on Linux...
 
Happy Camper said:
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/play-blu-ray-video-ubuntu-9-10-t4993.html?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
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Um, yeah. I don't want to have to look for decryption keys for every movie I want to watch, then decrypt the movie and then download it onto my hard drive at 50 GB a movie. I'll need 10 TB of hard drive space to be able to watch my collection. Now if you could point me to some software that can do it on the fly...

Edit: I've spent many, many hours on the Linux forums researching Blu-ray playback, you're not telling me anything new here ;)
 
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Happy Camper said:
It's open source dude, what's to protect?
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Not a programmer are you?
Open source means you can ... WTF ... do I have to explain this to you ?
In a Nut(s)shell:
Anybody can download the source (OS or any software), modify, redistribute to innocent newbies (like you?), with malicious code of any type implanted in the original code...

.. as the (Arm (afrikaans))mericans say ... go figure.
 
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Se7enty4 said:
I have been using computers since 1980. (Sperry UniVAC, ForTran)

I believe the Microsoft OS, when combined with Active Directory are WINNERS !!!
The two offer excellent security and ease of adoption where flexibility, stability, integration and cost (especially Admin costs/fees) are concerned.
After using MS products since DOS, and then using Windows through to the current versions, these are currently the best technologies, and are constantly getting better.
Open source may be free but security from viruses are the ultimate challenge. You can't protect open source.
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ROFLMFAO

Micro$oft FanBoi Alert !
 
Alastair, one statement in your article must be challenged - that IE doesn't run on Linux. It does - easily - with (wine, cabextract) and ies4linux.
Just the trick for those dreaded occasional IE-only sites.
 
linuxgal said:
Alastair, one statement in your article must be challenged - that IE doesn't run on Linux. It does - easily - with (wine, cabextract) and ies4linux.
Just the trick for those dreaded occasional IE-only sites.
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Who wants to run IE anyway. Since I have installed Google Chrome I have not looked back.

I have tried more that once to really make Ubuntu my main OS but it just does not work in the Microsoft world. Connecting to the printers, file servers etc. at work is a mission. The Office type applications available for Linux does not match those available on Windows.

What I did like about Ubuntu that there my HP OfficeJet scanner could be used over the network while this is not possible on Windows. My 3G card works right of the bat without first installing the software, and a couple of other nice things.
 
Se7enty4 said:
I have been using computers since 1980. (Sperry UniVAC, ForTran)

I believe the Microsoft OS, when combined with Active Directory are WINNERS !!!
The two offer excellent security and ease of adoption where flexibility, stability, integration and cost (especially Admin costs/fees) are concerned.
After using MS products since DOS, and then using Windows through to the current versions, these are currently the best technologies, and are constantly getting better.
Open source may be free but security from viruses are the ultimate challenge. You can't protect open source.
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Lol, how much did MS pay you to write such a load of drivel?

I confess, I have so many viruses on Linux, that I have to do a weekly reinstall - its so insecure. Not only that, but there are no anti-virus programs for Linux (only those that run in Linux but scan for windows virusses). My computer is not safe using open source. HELP!!!!
Now you know us Linux users biggest secret. How did you discover it? Linux propanda always states that Linux doesn't get viruses.
 
Smiley_lauf said:
The problem is not linuxOS, but hardware manufacturers that refuse to develop linux drivers for their hardware--so imagine Linux being like OS X, OS X marries 100% with the hardware so no problems switching. For Linux if driver not there, you will have to hack the system to work--or depend on the OpenSource (open sores more like it) community to share one with you. otherwise, Linux is looking like it will gain momentum now that big guns like IBM and Google are marketing it e.g Chrome and Android.
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+ 1 millllleeeeooonn
 
Once you figure out Linux, it sets you free. Its not for everyone, but I love it.
 
Se7enty4 said:
Open source may be free but security from viruses are the ultimate challenge. You can't protect open source.
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That is one of the dumbest statements I have heard in a long time, probably due to ignorance.

How many virii are there for Linux? Now answer the same question about MS Windows.

By it's very nature of being open source linux is already more secure than Windows by default. Anyone who want's to can scrutinise the source code, find holes in it, report it or even provide upstream patches. It's a system of peer review open to anyone. With windows you simply have to trust what MS gives you, you are not allowed to look at their code, never mind patching it. There is zilch peer review involved here and you have to accept what they provide you on good faith.

Another thing is you have direct access to the developers, try that with MS ;)

Any idea how much linux the US DoD runs? Why do they use so much of it? Simple, security. The US NSA was heavily involved in SELinux just as another example.

I would not brag to much about using computers since 1980, you are not doing yourself any favours with your comments ;)
 
w1z4rd said:
Once you figure out Linux, it sets you free. Its not for everyone, but I love it.
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Sets you free?

Could you explain what that means. I feel very caged using windows, sucking the life out of me. I want to be freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
Se7enty4 said:
I have been using computers since 1980. (Sperry UniVAC, ForTran)
Open source may be free but security from viruses are the ultimate challenge. You can't protect open source.
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:speechless:

Truly, that is the dumbest thing I have read all week - and I spend a lot of time reading things in CA....
 
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