Before I had totaly converted to linux I was dual booting, at that period my Windows (on different hardware/software setups) was freezing cold after 5 mins of inactivity, I suspected power management/ ACPI but it was happening with different versions of windows on different hardware (the only thing was common my Maxtor 8G hard drive, everything else including CPU/mobo differed from setup to setup), linux worked fine though on all setups. Now I have no wndows at all at least at home, I had problems with linux acting the same as my windows setup about 3 month ego, but it has vanished misteriously after I ran up2date on my RH setup for the first time in a couple of month. So, I am totaly devoted to linux, I am thanking the guys like Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Richard Stallman,Linus Torvalds, the developers around the globe, the sites like this one and their moderators for delivering the linux the way it is now.

While I may dislike, even hate M$, I switched to Linux for more reasons than that.

Linux is simply a better product.

It is faster, more stable, more secure, allows more freedom of choice for whatever you want to do, and is developed in a community of people who put their heart into making it. Money is not a motivating factor for them... making Linux is great is.

When anything is driven by money, quality will be much poorer than something built to be good.

As an example... M$ will release a product with thousands of bug and security holes because they have a timetable. For the most part, if something does not work right, a new Linux kernel is not released until it is fixed. Add the fact that quality control for Linux numbers in the several thousand people.... how many do you think M$ has when they have to pay them?

I would not dislike M$ if it were not for three things. They have rude and immoral business practices, they sell their inferior products for an excessive amount of money, and they deliberately make any standard they can proprietary for their own software, giving no choices to consumers.

Anyway, like kewpie said, this is why we like Linux, not hate M$.

It's not black-and-white now. Linux programs are also sometimes released with bugs, too early. Example: earliy versions of 2.4.x kernel line...
But overall, Linux (and open source in general) products are just better.

Granted Mara, but I was actually talking about the operating system kernel itself, not any apps.

But in either case, I feel open source by its nature has a lot less opportunity to have bugs or not get bugs fixed promptly. That is why it is better.

No kidding, although the fact that comparison is the simplest form of flattery is really why the posts lean anti-MS.

One great reason I love Linux, the community. LQ is a good enough example, but how about another:

Yesterday I was submitting my "Public IP request form" to my ISP, Megapath (who are quite badass if you live in the states, give 'em a call before inviting the Local Bell to make your life difficult. [Yank Note to Kewp: The Bells make BT look efficient.]) Anyway, I had to outline what domains, what servers, down to the flavor i.e. sendmail vs Qmail or MSExchange, and I finished it off with the sentence: "and one IP for a NAT/firewall box as you just don't want the two Windows machines in the house to have public IPs". This is a little piddly $65 a month ADSL line running to my living room, nothing spectacular. They promise the form would be replied to within 48 hours.

Half an hour later I get a mail from tech support telling me my router was reconfigured for me remotely, here's my IP block of 5, and a nice little note at the end from one of their tech support guys offering reverse DNS, help with Qmail, and just curious as to what distro I was running.

Nowhere in the form did it ask operating system

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi Fin,

how are they able to reconfig your router? do they have access to your rounter?

Yeah when the router came in the mail they had it configured to NAT/firewall, similar to those cutsie Telocity boxes, but in this case the thing actually has 4 10/100 ports. It picks up a static IP it was configured with before they mailed it, badabing it NATs for a bunch of clients handed 192.168.1.x's. They just logged into the puppy from afar via the static and gave it a whole 8-bit subnet to handle and turned off NAT'ing. It's IP is still my gateway instead of it being some machine at Megapath's end, so they don't need to have a router at the CO. Its a nifty way to handle that little entanglement. I can also configure it, with a lot of control, so its re-cyclable if I ever ditch Megapath.

Cheers,

Finegan

Dun you set password on your rounter? or you gave it to the megapath guys?

It was set to the customer information, same as my freebie email that I'll never use, I didn't both to change it in the day I had it running before they reconfigured it. They had a bit on the form for: if password is not the same, mail us with the new one and wait to change it until we're done twiddling stuff.

Why all the curiosity?

Cheers,

Finegan

P.S. on second thought, we're hijacking this thread, mail me with whatever you want to know.

sure, no prblem....

heck, windows98 crashed for bill gates on live telivision talk about marketing