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Originally posted by Ennis
Sore arses I hear...!
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Originally posted by Ennis
Sore arses I hear...!
;)
rofl
20 talented programmers with a focus only on this project will write better code than 20,000 that dont know what they are dealing with. Once the source is released improvements to lindows can be made, but first they need a product.
For $99 you can try what they have been working on. I'm seriously considering ponying up th e99 bucks jst to see. I've got plenty of spare comps around to blow up if it doesn't work.
Oh for Christ's sake, what a bunch of whiners!
Doesn't M$ have enough money already?...apparently they do, since they bring every half-assed complaint about trademarks and copyrights to court. I mean, really...does anyone else see the stupidity and whining in this frivilous lawsuit?
Big Billy may as well go ahead and copyright the Alphabet and the Whole Number Scale (which of course, includes 1 and 0), since his products use them. And while he's at it he may as well copyright my dick, so he can sue me when I piss on the next installment of Windows that I'll never buy.
I'M SWITCHING TO LINUX!...
Ouroboros
The question was: Do you think Lindows will fly?
Well, I am not sure about this one. It has the potential to. And it has already captured a lot of people's attention. That is one point, that alot of companies have failed to do. It doesn't matter if their software is mediocre. Just look at windows. One thing that made Win95 a big sell, was the usability. Now, I think, a long with other's, that one reason why Lindow's chose that name, was because, MS would sue indefinently over the name. No big deal. Just change the name during the court battle. But the damage ( to MS will have already been done) because, through-out the court battle, just as Napster did, People will hear about it. And will want to check it out.
The one downfall, I do see of Lindows, is that the hype has gotten out of control, I doubt it will live up to it's expectations, atleast within the first year or so. But who knows. Perhaps they have done something not done before by the Open Source community. We shall see. I think 2002 will be a year of the Operating System's. :)
ey.. as long as they dont use "winux" im ok...
coz im da first one in this who god damn plannet that ever came up with the term winux.. and i'll sue them if they use that name..
My opinion of an OS that runs both linux apps and windows apps is as follows:
1: I could care LESS about the 'app support' for windows. I can use everything on linux for email (elm, mutt, sendmail, etc), editing (vi, emacs, etc), browsing (mozilla, opera, netscape), programming (YEAH BABY YEAH) (perl, shell, c, c++, java, etc etc), web hosting (apache, duh)...all of which is more stable, lower on 'cost' in reference to space and resource efficiency than anything on windows. Also, I can use LIcq, GAim, etc for IMs.
2: SHOW ME THE GAMES...THAT'S what I'm waiting for. Right now, if Lindows supported games on a "windows" platform with the stability of the linux kernel, then I'm there...otherwise it's wait for vmware to get going for games. As it is, vmware supports "thousands of windows applications" which is already stated in #1.
VMWare or Lindows...I think both have and will find tasks ahead of them for compatibility. One is trying to meld the two, the other is using one as a host with the other as a guest operating system with emulation across the board for everything hardware related.
Games, where are the games!?
Vorlin:
Alot of average users DO care about their applications. Alot of them, don't know that there are apps that are very close to the same, that run on Linux. Nor would they want to re-learn how to use them. But once you get the average user saying "Hey this OS will run <insert fav. app here> and it is simple to use. <going by what journalists have said> So I think it will be worth my while to try it out. " Once that happens, and it becomes "mainstream" the games will follow.
Just my opinion though :)
One key to pulling users out of windows would be to run their current apps on a more stable,cheaper platform. I agree with the attitude towards vaporware and yet I can't feel some type of hope for a product like this.
The more people that move off M$ products (namely the OS) the better the wolrd will be.
Choice is key.
right now most users don't have choice.
Oh, there's nothing wrong with that opinion, but here's my points about a vast majority of the user community out there (at least those that own computers).Quote:
Originally posted by gstudios
Vorlin:
Alot of average users DO care about their applications. Alot of them, don't know that there are apps that are very close to the same, that run on Linux. Nor would they want to re-learn how to use them. But once you get the average user saying "Hey this OS will run <insert fav. app here> and it is simple to use. <going by what journalists have said> So I think it will be worth my while to try it out. " Once that happens, and it becomes "mainstream" the games will follow.
Just my opinion though :)
1: "It's got a pretty ... what's that word ... icon, yeah that's it...I click it and my program runs."
2: "What? Linux is free? Applications and operating systems for free? Well, there's no such thing as a free lunch so it must be trash!"
3: "Microsoft is the best. AOL is the best. Linux or whatever it's called can't possibly be better."
4: "What's wrong with Microsoft being a monopoly?"
I've heard all these things more than I care to count. It's not that I wouldn't care about applications if I were trying to support users that actually have a clue, but a majority of them don't, won't, and never WILL learn anything other than what's built for win32 platforms.
That's the downfall. I've offered to show at least 3 alternatives apiece for browsing, text editing, and email for people just to prove that yes, linux does have viable alternatives but they won't even try to learn something new...for them, screw that noise, go back to being a MS whipped "end user" that "surfs the net a bit" with Winblows XP while I help people that have a clue or want to learn.
Knowledge is something you can never have enough of and those people piss me off, especially when they insult what I do (and they don't even know that fully either) and STILL expect me to help them fix their busted compaq/hp/dell/gateway when it breaks. Gah, don't get me started...