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I like gentoo and if I had a quad core cpu and a few more disposable hard drives I would use it. That being said I last tried to use it less than a year ago and I compiled firefox and it didn't grab X or a window manager as a dependency. But I didn't need to recompile firefox when I did compile those elements. I tried gentoo a few times before and sort of drew the line at having to manually configure the menu for IceWM. Since few if any of the packages added entries to the menu at that time. Gentoo has great potential, especially for systems that run on non-x86 cpus. But I would much rather use debian over a long haul. Although much of that is my familiarity with debians package management system. Linux still seems to impress me. I can run it off of a USB stick with horrendous file I/O speeds and still have a usable and relatively hassle free computing experience. Even on computers that probably should have been recycled half a decade ago. And I can take an existing install and slap it on a different storage medium, change a few pointers and carry on exactly where I left off from it's previous location. If you could take your windows install with you anywhere and run it on any computer I could just imagine the panic out of redmond. In the meantime I've booted my usb linux on at least ten computers in the past thirty days. Visiting relatives and only taking a usb stick with you as your "tech" items. Checking your emails on your OS on their computer without any worries of keyloggers or malware and with a firewall you trust. Linux is the life. |
Do you use some sort of encryption on your USB as well when you boot it from someone's computer? I would be a little nervous only using a firewall if I was doing "sensitive" work with it.
Edit: While I am thinking of it, what are good password managers or vaults? Is there ones out there that would automatically fill in the username and password when I visit a site, or at least keep them in a vault so I can see what password I use for a site? |
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A good standalone passwd vault is keepassX https://www.keepassx.org/.
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It's not so much about encrypting personal data as it is about keeping my data off of another persons computer. Since the default browser behavior (more like webpage behavior) is to "keep me logged in". And last time I checked my email on someone elses windows install, my 1 spam a day in the spam folder jumped to 25+ almost instantly.
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I was referring to boot into my own Linux (installed on the USB stick) with everything incl. browser, mailer, addressbook etc. on someone's machine, totally ignoring any local harddisk, i.e., leaving the other guy's harddisk(s) just rotating for nothing, all the time from power-on til' power-off.. Sorry again to the OP for the change of topic.. :/ |
Several years ago I used one of my relatives windows and checked my webmail in ie. And spam galore.
As far as booting usb linux, I don't think their HDD keeps spinning. My version of linux does not automount anything more than the minimums. And the power management features of linux are pretty good so even if their drive did spin up it should spin down and power off after five or less minutes. It depends on the hardware of course. But there's a reason why my laptop runs much cooler and quieter on usb than it's own internal HDD. But it probably depends on the distro, ubuntu likes to automount available devices, and unless you explicitly unmount them they probably will keep on spinning. As far as the OP. All of the same basic functions in windows are available in linux. Except the ability to hide running applications from the task manager. Networking, email, web browsing, and other things. And when it's not quite what you need in native linux you can still use wine or crossover over office to run things that are windows based. To include internet explorer and microsoft office. The only real no go is the game industry that doesn't always provide linux versions or versions that play well with cross platform tools. Plus the whole windows only directx, visual basic, activeX, and whatever else applies. But if you're a software company that specializes in that niche market with millions of mobile devices that probably don't run windows in this day and age, then hopefully that works well enough for you to at least cover the licensing fees. |
So I can load just about any Distro onto a USB(say a 32GB for extra space), and take it with me anywhere, have all my apps, email, browsing, etc and have Wine with a few game like Terraria, and just plug into a computer and it plays? As far as encryption, what I mean is when I installed PC-BSD, it gave me the option of entering a password when installing, and I didn't enter one, but my understanding is you have to enter it before the OS will boot so you can enter the pass for your account. If I boot it off another computer, should I avoid doing anything sensitive like buying on eBay?
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With the Steam box and Ouya(not sure what games this will play), Linux will be in the living room. Plain and simple. If Randicus wants to slam Steam and yet says he doesn't want to take the time to research it, then yes it is trolling. If you slam it, then at least be able to back it up. As for as porting, I don't think that devs will have much choice several years down the road with the huge push to move to Linux. I made another thread a couple minutes ago with a video you should watch. As for the game, I think Bloody meant that using Wine, you can play all those games on Linux. I installed Steam on PC-BSD yesterday and installed a couple games with almost no issues. As for posting, why waste my time, your time, and everyone elses time by posting stupid crap like Randicus did?
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Ok, just because most games right now aren't natively supported in Linux doesn't mean that its a stupid idea to use Wine. I am guessing you have never heard of Windows Blue? If you haven't then take the 10 minutes to look it up. This is why I am finally fed up with the crap from MS, and I won't even consider buying anymore Apple products. Gabe Newell is onto something with the Linux push and whether or not people want to admit it, Linux will really start picking up steam(pun intended). As stated before Win 7 will be my last MS OS. Can you imagine what will happen when MS rolls out Blue and people start crying about having to pay for yearly upgrades? Perhaps you are getting offended because you don't want the "Windows" people migrating to Linux. I already stated that the reason I haven't totally switched yet was because of hardware and driver support, but it has made huge strides in the past couple years. Obviously everyone has a different opinion, but if Randicus can't post something of value such as saying why bother, then I consider it trolling.
"In Internet slang, a troll (pron.: /ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is someone who posts inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion." Emphasis on inflammatory. As for the posting, you are not the first person to be at a forum posting for several years. I am not tech illiterate and I certainly don't claim to be an expert, and frankly I don't know a lot from Linux due to limited usage. But when someone tries to give me crap about something, I don't just sit back. |
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