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03 Apr 2010, 12:56 pm

Ancalagon wrote:

There are rolling-release distros like Arch, and Debian Testing isn't meant to be used for anything but testing. Debian Unstable gets relatively frequent updates.

Debian Unstable is usually broken in some serious way, though. And you still have to wait a while before a new Firefox/FrostFerret lands in Experimental.

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04 Apr 2010, 2:06 am

UAC is a bloody joke, it can be easily hacked. Vista/Win 7 are a lot more secure than previous releases of Windows, but they are still insecure. Also Windows is a bloated piece of garbage, Linux can do exactly the same or even more and still use less resources than Windows.

Dude, anything that is UNIX or Unix-like automatically wins. Anything Microsoft related fails.

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04 Apr 2010, 2:48 am

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Dude, anything that is UNIX or Unix-like automatically wins. Anything Microsoft related fails.

What if Microsoft wrote a UNIX-like operating system?

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04 Apr 2010, 3:07 am

Orwell wrote:

lxuser wrote:

Dude, anything that is UNIX or Unix-like automatically wins. Anything Microsoft related fails.

What if Microsoft wrote a UNIX-like operating system?

Then the world would be a better place.

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04 Apr 2010, 3:48 am

Orwell wrote:

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Dude, anything that is UNIX or Unix-like automatically wins. Anything Microsoft related fails.

What if Microsoft wrote a UNIX-like operating system?

I would run naked down a busy road if that happened. Plus it will still fail, because its developed by Microsoft.

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04 Apr 2010, 5:48 am

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My university has a deal with Microsoft. I get free copies of Windows operating systems and Office, among other things.

Ah... so you don't get your copies of the software free - you pay for them via your university fees.

If your university doesn't pay, I would suggest that you report them for accepting goods from Microsoft as a bribe for choosing to use their products.

I ran into a very similar situation, back in the dawn of computing, when IBM were prevented from giving away computers to schools. My school was about the first to miss out on getting a free computer. All we got was a free magnetic core memory.

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04 Apr 2010, 7:12 am

Orwell wrote:

lxuser wrote:

Dude, anything that is UNIX or Unix-like automatically wins. Anything Microsoft related fails.

What if Microsoft wrote a UNIX-like operating system?

Microsoft does have a Unix like OS

Xenix but it's old (developed in 80's) off AT&T version 7 Unix

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04 Apr 2010, 12:53 pm

lau wrote:

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My university has a deal with Microsoft. I get free copies of Windows operating systems and Office, among other things.

Ah... so you don't get your copies of the software free - you pay for them via your university fees.

No, I'm on scholarship. I don't pay tuition.

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04 Apr 2010, 7:48 pm

Orwell wrote:

lau wrote:

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My university has a deal with Microsoft. I get free copies of Windows operating systems and Office, among other things.

Ah... so you don't get your copies of the software free - you pay for them via your university fees.

No, I'm on scholarship. I don't pay tuition.

Yes, as I said, you pay for the software out of part of your scholarship which goes to your university to cover their fees. Or are you saying that no money changes hands at all?

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04 Apr 2010, 8:54 pm

lau wrote:

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lau wrote:

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My university has a deal with Microsoft. I get free copies of Windows operating systems and Office, among other things.

Ah... so you don't get your copies of the software free - you pay for them via your university fees.

No, I'm on scholarship. I don't pay tuition.

Yes, as I said, you pay for the software out of part of your scholarship which goes to your university to cover their fees. Or are you saying that no money changes hands at all?

I do not pay for tuition at all- whatever my bill would come to, they list as a scholarship on my financial aid statement, but no money has to pass back and forth. I have paid for room and board (no longer as of this fall when I am getting an apartment), and I pay a small fee that covers things like the gym on campus and funds some student organizations.

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04 Apr 2010, 8:58 pm

Orwell wrote:

... financial aid statement...

Yes. You pay via this, I take it. Money changes hands. It just happens not to go via your pocket.

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04 Apr 2010, 9:16 pm

lau wrote:

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... financial aid statement...

Yes. You pay via this, I take it. Money changes hands. It just happens not to go via your pocket.

Money changes hands in that the university takes money from one account it owns and moves it over to another account it owns. That's of no consequence to me; if tuition increases my scholarship automatically increases to match it. For all purposes, I essentially have a tuition waiver.

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04 Apr 2010, 9:46 pm

Orwell wrote:

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... financial aid statement...

Yes. You pay via this, I take it. Money changes hands. It just happens not to go via your pocket.

I.e. your scholarship pays for Microsoft's OSes.

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06 Apr 2010, 1:32 pm

I've installed Windows 7 on maybe a half dozen machines and have yet to need to manually install a driver. The only incompatible device I've found was an HP scanner, which I think was incompatible with Vista as well (apparently HP abandoned support for this old device).

Ubuntu 9.10 has been pretty good about driver coverage. It's not there yet.

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07 Apr 2010, 9:20 pm

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Also, about 89% of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers run on Linux.

a ton of embedded systemns run Linux

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07 Apr 2010, 9:22 pm

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Nobody uses Linux in a desktop in a business setting unless it's a high tech company

No offense intended but thats a pretty ambitious statement to make.

I must be the exception then since I use Linux on the desktop and i dont work for a high tech company :wink:

its also blatonty wrong...when ever people use everyone, or noone, or some form of this, they typically get pwned most epically to dust by reality

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