The top 3 operating systems

porchrat said:
That is seriously your response?...SERIOUSLY?

Did you not read the quote in my previous post?

We were talking about what Ubuntu is SHIPPED with, not what you download after you have installed it. Either keep up or go stick your head in the paper shredder.
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That is a, well, um Colourfull response from you....

Your mentioning to:
It ships with the basics and then you decide afterwards what you want to run on it as there is such a huge choice.
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The argument is that you can get anything/replacements for Ubuntu!
www.unix.com.....
 
VLC (especially v1.0.1) has become a great alternative to most media players. I've even switched to it from using media player classic + cccp. It's a little on the heavy side and still rough around the edges but compared to the 0.9 releases it's way ahead.

I wish people would focus more on things like memory use and video/audio/graphics performance rather than startup times, though. Startup times are always going to increase after you start actually using the OS.
 
Iv been using ubuntu for 6 months now and have not looked back- everytime I have to go back to windows its just plain ugly- it feels like I need to go and shower afterwards. The biggest problem with ubuntu in my opinion is the lack of support for games and some high end programs, I believe that once governments especially the US government moves to opensource (which they were looking at doing, not sure what happened to that) and the khronos group jacks up opengl, so that game programmers go back to developing in that, we will see the markets shifting and linux becoming more of a force to be reckoned with..... oh happy day....

...that doesnt sound geekish at all mind you
 
Actually, I prefer WMP 12 over VLC and Media Player Classic for HD content.

Microsoft really did a good job with WMP 12 for a change :)
 
Why is Ubuntu called an OS? It should be a distribution of Linux. But then again if somebody asked me a question on how to search for a package on Ubuntu I would give them a Gentoo answer. So does the packaging tools that comes with the specific distribution declare it as a separate OS? Or is Windows Server 2008 really a separate OS to Windows Vista and/or Windows 7? Don't they all share the same kernel version?
 
There's a rumour that Microsoft Windows have dumped the NT kernal in favour of Linux and Windows 7 is actually based on KDE?
 
McGuywer said:
That is a, well, um Colourfull response from you....

Your mentioning to:


The argument is that you can get anything/replacements for Ubuntu!
www.unix.com.....
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LOL.

Sorry about that I haven't had my coffee and have been on the phone with bureaucrats all morning. Your post was just the outlet my aggression had been looking for :D :p

I just don't like the double standards. I mean, we all have to download things to make our systems perform the functions they are required to perform regardless of the OS we use.

I personally need a MySQL server, but I don't want the whole LAMP thing. I don't download the ubuntu server edition, I use the desktop edition. So I get the desktop Ubuntu and then download the MySQL server post install.

I admit that that is a particular piece of software that the average computer user wouldn't need, but Ubuntu does not ship with everything one would ever need and no OS should. Rather get yourself a smaller ISO download and then install the things you need separately.

Although in the case of Windows where you buy the cursed thing in a little plastic box from Incredible Connection then damnit I want all the bells and whistles as opposed to downloading it all and then I can decide what to do delete once I'm done installing and use the saved cap to increase the size of my anime porn collection :p

Just my 2 cents.

/me shrugs.
 
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afrodeity said:
There's a rumour that Microsoft Windows have dumped the NT kernal in favour of Linux and Windows 7 is actually based on KDE?
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I doubt they would do that- as far as I know they would then have to distribute the source code for their OS according to the GPL agreement... but maybe someone who is more clued up can comment
 
afrodeity said:
There's a rumour that Microsoft Windows have dumped the NT kernal in favour of Linux and Windows 7 is actually based on KDE?
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KDE is just a desktop environment, not a kernel. Gnome and KDE both run on linux kernels.

Although it would be funny to open notepad only to find out that they forgot to change the title of the frame and it reads "Kate".

Haha good times.
 
Well it surprised me the similarities that Win7 and KDE have in common. Each have taken and contributed ideas. Its great as it makes the cross-over between the two easier.

Currently I run gnome and XP in "old NT skin mode" as it irritates me when things are not the same.

But anyway, at least this year is ending off in a really big distro bang (BTW Win7 uses the Longhorn kernal so really is just a distro I suppose).
 
I installed Windows7 Enterprise on a few machines already, but for my workstation I am stiking with RC until is start rebooting every second hour. Not because I do not want to reinstall everything again but because I am so happy with RC that I do not see the need to install Enterprise until I am forced.

What the article fails to point out is the amount of 3rd party applications (like games) that each operating system supports (without having to w[-]h[/-]ine about it or going to [-]boot[/-]camp staaldraad)
 
I Have used both win7 (beta) and ubuntu 9.04 (given it’s an old version) but until Linux makes things easier to install (endless downloads needed) it will never lead the market. Try buying a package for Linux........ I can walk into incredible and walk out with what ever app pleases my heart that will most probably install once off without first having to upgrade libraries.
while Linux is great it still needs the support from the hardware suppliers (drivers that work, wireless lans that don’t need to be fwcutter'd and endless lspic lsusb to find out what is installed so I can spend hours on the net trying to find out how to get it working. Then lets hit windows a little, if these guys were not so greedy they would not have to worry about Linux being a up and coming OS, the software costs more than the machine and DSP dies with the machine so don’t think you are going to be updating your machine with that fancy new motherboard, CPU and graphics card…
 
Rouxenator said:
What the article fails to point out is the amount of 3rd party applications (like games) that each operating system supports (without having to w[-]h[/-]ine about it or going to [-]boot[/-]camp staaldraad)
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That has nothing to do with which OS's are the three main OS's and what changes we can expect. Stay on topic.

Also...TROLL ALERT! We don't need another flame war, we are all quite aware of your opinions and lets be honest, we have had that discussion already.
 
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ave said:
I doubt they would do that- as far as I know they would then have to distribute the source code for their OS according to the GPL agreement... but maybe someone who is more clued up can comment
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Correct but they are always free to use the BSD kernel. They used the BSD network stack in the past so no reason not to.
Another option it the Mach kernel.

But I doubt MS will use these.
 
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TelkomUseless said:
Who cares about WMP? Just don't use it. VLC FTW! But W7 is pure awesomeness...
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Er, WMP has something called a library, i.e. you can actually store and sort your music in it easily add artwork etc. VLC can play you a movie that's it, not that impressive.

You obviously need something besides VLC if you have music on your PC. Anyway I use MPC :D
 
I prefer SMPlayer for movies http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/
Based on Mplayer, with a KDE based interface, works really well.

and Songbird for music http://www.getsongbird.com/
Based on Mozilla, with full library support, skins, etc.

and yes I've tried VLC and Media Player Classic already. Media Player Classic was my preferred movie player until someone recommended SMPlayer. Another good thing about both is that they are cross platform, so I have the same apps on my XP machine at work and my Linux machine at home :)
 
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