Because Shiny Things Are Fun - The New New Windows v Linux Thread

Originally Posted by YesItsMe u dumb ...

I think you need to look at a mirror and say that; as let me put it another way... WHERE does post #2802 say anything about FreeBSD or M$ using it ??

Once again, FreeBSD is still NOT Winblow$, is it? ...or are you saying it is ?

Ouch!

See, anything is better than your toy OS.

Originally Posted by YesItsMe See, anything is better than your toy OS.

That's why M$'s Azure sphere OS is Linux based and NOT Winblow$ based is it? That's why Google among others use it and run on it ? Ah, ok

Your slipping YesItsMe.

But nice chatting to you tho - I do mean that funnily enough.

Look after yourself and I'll see ya in the soup!

To each our own. Unless it's not "legally" possible or you're just one of those suckers they talk about being born every other second or the screwer,,, you know human‽

HaHa

Anybody running Solaris or BSD on a Acer C710 Chromebook?

Just curious since I have AntiX on mine and have another C710 I can experiment with.

I think there should be poll in this thread like the ones in this forum on how long before you reboot you linux install.

My idea? How long of a period of time before you you boot your Windows Install?

So far for me? 9 days since I had to tune up a motorcycle.

Meanwhile. Back in the real world.

"This is a difficult sentencing," U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley told him last year, "because I credit everything you are telling me. You are a very remarkable person."

http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...426-story.html

Electronics-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives

Debian Lie-nux, the OS of the broken promises:

1) Debian will be sleeker and slimmer. No more multiple binaries and manpages. 2) Debian will contain the most up-to-date of everything. (...) 6) Debian will make Linux easier for users who don’t have access to the Internet.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...U/xty88y5OLaMJ

Originally Posted by YesItsMe Debian Lie-nux, the OS of the broken promises: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...U/xty88y5OLaMJ

I'm not sure what your point is?

None of those points is still true: Not slim, not up-to-date (quite the opposite), not easy without internet.

Originally Posted by YesItsMe None of those points is still true: Not slim, not up-to-date (quite the opposite), not easy without internet.

I still don't understand your point? That's a 25 year old post from a man who is now dead to the world as it was 25 years ago. If you're still living as you were 25 years ago and nothing has changed in your life then fine but for most people that's a generation ago an irrelevant.

I repeat: broken promises. Just wait long enough.
Microsoft's promises from 25 years ago are still true.

Originally Posted by YesItsMe I repeat: broken promises. Just wait long enough. Microsoft's promises from 25 years ago are still true.

Rubbish. Microsoft have changed also -- it now produces a Linux or "cancer" as it called it.
Plus those weren't promises they were goals. The goals of a now dead man who produced a version of Linux which lead to some of the most successful distributions going, distributions which got many people into Linux and which lead to, for example, some games being ported to Linux.
As I mentioned, if things haven't changed for you in 25 years then that's pretty weird. For example, to address directly one of the things posted, do you think that the majority of people now still don't have internet access? Do you recall the situation regarding internet access 25 years ago?

Originally Posted by 273 Rubbish. Microsoft have changed also -- it now produces a Linux or "cancer" as it called it.

Breaking which promise? Please bring a citation.

Originally Posted by 273 Plus those weren't promises they were goals.

Missed goals are so much better than broken promises?

Originally Posted by 273 The goals of a now dead man

... which were already long gone during his lifetime.

Originally Posted by 273 do you think that the majority of people now still don't have internet access?

I can tell you that there even are places in Germany where internet connections are not really much faster than they were around 2000. There is "internet", but you really don't want to download a DVD full of software over it.

Originally Posted by YesItsMe Breaking which promise? Please bring a citation. Missed goals are so much better than broken promises? ... which were already long gone during his lifetime. I can tell you that there even are places in Germany where internet connections are not really much faster than they were around 2000. There is "internet", but you really don't want to download a DVD full of software over it.

Ian Murdock didn't make any promises and neither did Microsoft. If you're living exactly as you did 25 years ago with the same exact situation then that's fine for you but, for most people, things have changed.
Are those Germans still paying for their internet access in Reichsmarks?

Originally Posted by 273 Are those Germans still paying for their internet access in Reichsmarks?

Probably. At least the German Telekom denies upgrading their DSL lines, so they are stuck with old contracts.