ppietro wrote:I find this web page extremely comforting:
http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
CronoCloud wrote:Me too, as well as the smart questions one that you've pointed to before:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Don't ask people to reply by private e-mail
Hackers believe solving problems should be a public, transparent process during which a first try at an answer can and should be corrected if someone more knowledgeable notices that it is incomplete or incorrect. Also, helpers get some of their reward for being respondents from being seen to be competent and knowledgeable by their peers.
When you ask for a private reply, you are disrupting both the process and the reward. Don't do this. It's the respondent's choice whether to reply privately — and if he does, it's usually because he thinks the question is too ill-formed or obvious to be interesting to others.
bonedome wrote:MS Windows converts are always moaning about how complicated linux is, I spend about 2 hours a week cleaning all the crap out of my girlfriends windows xp computer, defrag, disc clean, virus scan, spyware malware scan etc etc and there's always one problem or other (this week 2 trojans), makes me like linux more and more
bonedome wrote:it seems google has also gone linux, the google chrome operating system is out soon, what they have almost completely forgotten to mention in their press releases is it's basically another linux distro, although reading between the lines they want to base it around their web browser.
ppietro wrote:bonedome wrote:it seems google has also gone linux, the google chrome operating system is out soon, what they have almost completely forgotten to mention in their press releases is it's basically another linux distro, although reading between the lines they want to base it around their web browser.
Except that it's not really Linux.
It's using a Linux kernel - but that's where the similarities end. ... it will be closer to MacOS X - which uses a Mach kernel to drive a completely customized and optimized windowing system on top of a small BSD Unix. If you had enough faith in your GUI tools, you could drop the Unix part almost completely, since BSDs are generally designed around monolithic kernels like Linux, not Mach kernels.
In other words, Apple's already de-coupled their kernel from their Unix, since they chose to use a non-standard kernel.
Obviously, this is conjecture on my part. ...
Paul
Digitalgenicide wrote:I,ve been reading allot of stuff about Google Chrome OS and i really don't understand the hype. the Web Browser is the OS. but why would i need that if i already have an OS with a web browser Plus a whole lot of other applications
ppietro wrote:P.S. You can read about some of the performance issues Mac OS X has because of this mis-match between BSD & Mach here:
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=7
bonedome wrote:MS Windows converts are always moaning about how complicated linux is,
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