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« Reply #45 on: November 19, 2004, 05:56:37 pm »
emerge works fine for me ;) Must be you.

And windows takes more effort to update than gentoo :) A simple \"emerge -u -D world\" and every bit of software on your system is updated as needed. :) Compared to windows where you have to update your OS, your drivers, and programs individually :/
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« Reply #46 on: November 20, 2004, 04:04:08 am »
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emerge works fine for me ;) Must be you.

And windows takes more effort to update than gentoo :) A simple \"emerge -u -D world\" and every bit of software on your system is updated as needed. :) Compared to windows where you have to update your OS, your drivers, and programs individually :/


yup, i second to that

and you have to remember that we (i guess Xordan and others too, not just me) used to be win* users before we switched ;)
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« Reply #47 on: November 20, 2004, 05:07:26 am »
Hook, why did it need 95? You can install XP on a completely formatted PC with nothing on it, I don\'t understand why you had this problem. I would have thought at least 98 if anything.
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« Reply #48 on: November 20, 2004, 05:59:25 am »
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I prefer Richard Stallmans usage of the words \'free software\' over the newer \'open source\'.. but thats another subject..

There is a big difference between Free Software and OpenSource Software. The first means that you are free to do as you like (so it\'s at least GPL, which has some very reasonable restrictions), while the latter simply means that the source code can be looked at, but you may not even be allowed to change a single typo in it.
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And i think just because windows exists, it has become the most popular target for viruses/hacks/etc... think about it, whens the last time you heard about a virus hitting a unix server? usually its just a macro or something designed to infect your \'address book\' and send copies of itself via messages through Outlook to everyone.. and do the same on their computer...

This is because Windoze is the most commonly used system, and also most often used by ppl. who don\'t have a clue, and therefore totally unsecured (as is M$ default). If Linux were, the viruses would hit Linux. It\'s always who has the greatest installed base, because it\'s more effective to hit it. Also, as Linux becomes more popular and as virus / trojan / worm writers move from the \"for fun / sports\" aspect towards the \"for money\" aspect, we\'re going to see Linux becoming increasingly targeted in the future.
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Anywho.. im going with Stallmans idea of getting rid of all proprietary software, but not to the extreme as he has.. not yet anyway, i just cant afford to get rid of some things yet.. give it several months, then we\'ll see..

I\'d love to, but sadly games tend not to be FOSS. Everything else I\'ve switched already.

@ Adeli: you should start with a distro that installs easily and then use it to get a feel for Linux. Buying a packaged version is a good idea as you usually get a manual along with it, which will be of great value for learning and setting it up. Even with the manual, the packaged distros are way cheaper than Windoze, so it\'s still a great deal IMO. Afterwards, you can try other distros and see what you prefer (as IMO it\'s really just a matter of preference and what you need.). I started with SuSE, then moved to RedHat before switching to Debian two years ago.

@ Hooks experience: that\'s what you get for using the \"upgrade\" versions! :P
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« Reply #49 on: November 20, 2004, 10:08:15 am »
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« Reply #50 on: November 20, 2004, 12:33:45 pm »
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Hook, why did it need 95? You can install XP on a completely formatted PC with nothing on it, I don\'t understand why you had this problem. I would have thought at least 98 if anything.

Heeeeey, I\'ve noooo ideaaa!!

But I know it didn\'t want to boot from the CD, so I had to do all sorts of crap ...maybe i even had to install 98 over/alongside 95 ...no idea - it wasn\'t fun. And I *did* try the most (and less) obvious things to avoid that massacre of installation.

Anyhoo, I\'m past that ...I didn\'t want to start a flame war - it\'s just that I *really* do find installing (apt-get and portage based) Linux (distributions) a lot easier - especially when it comes to dependancies ;)
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« Reply #51 on: November 20, 2004, 02:14:08 pm »
Seytra answered my question.
You got an upgrade version, not a stand alone.
Did you know you had done that?

I won\'t argue about Linux, as I don\'t have it yet.
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« Reply #52 on: November 20, 2004, 10:06:31 pm »
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Seytra, myth#1:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/

I stand corrected, thanks for pointing that out to me. One more reason to use Linux.
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The bottom line is that quality, not quantity, is the determining factor when evaluating the number of successful attacks against software.

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« Reply #53 on: November 21, 2004, 02:08:14 am »
I love MenuetOS(MeOS) it is the best of them all!
Completly customizable and is smaller(7??somthing Kb) and faster than any out there.
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« Reply #54 on: November 21, 2004, 05:09:35 am »
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I love MenuetOS(MeOS) it is the best of them all!
Completly customizable and is smaller(7??somthing Kb) and faster than any out there.


From what I can see this runs on top of another OS and hence keeps the size down.  Or else someone is a really good old school programmer and I congratulate them for being like that.

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« Reply #55 on: November 21, 2004, 05:31:39 am »
You\'ll have to congratulate them, then, because I just downloaded and ran it: it is standalone.

Edit: In light of this, one should also have a look at Unununium.
http://unununium.org/
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« Reply #56 on: November 21, 2004, 06:18:11 am »
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I love MenuetOS(MeOS) it is the best of them all!
Completly customizable and is smaller(7??somthing Kb) and faster than any out there.
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Someone wrote an entire OS in assembly?!? Bleh.. that must have been quite the job.  Definately can understand why it would be fast though.
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« Reply #57 on: November 21, 2004, 09:49:18 am »
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You\'ll have to congratulate them, then, because I just downloaded and ran it: it is standalone.


I\'ll send them an email when I get around to it (probably never though).   Nice bit of work by those guys though its got a gui and everything (whoever is running it is it actually any good?), unfortunately it wont be compatably with many programs.

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« Reply #58 on: November 21, 2004, 11:18:35 am »
A good os = compatibilty. Because if it won\'t be compatible with most of the \"must have\" software, you\'ll end up watching the monitor, saying all day \"Oh I love this os\". Though, you\'ll do that all day ... staring at it :D
 Anyway, they did a nice job.
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« Reply #59 on: November 21, 2004, 10:57:38 pm »
No, compatibility is not an important factor to measure OS quality. If it were, then neither Linux nor BSD nor MacOS would be good OSes. The criteria are:
- security
- stability
- functionality
- usability

If anything, one might use \"POSIX compliance\" as quality measure, but there are things that can be better without being POSIX compatible.
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