Soon Linux will be everywhere...

HP. Dell, IBM and such have said they are going to start offering Linux in their computers. That rocks because Windows sucks and I hate Bill Gates.

 

That's pretty sweet, but both Linux and Windows are equally as shitty IMO.

 

na, i'm down with linux.

 

Let's hope your right, I personally think you are. Were all ready seeing Linux entering the workplace as a desktop replacement. Some of the features that exist in the Linux/Unix environment; as far as, there user and file handling policy's go make it ideal for the work environment. And for the small time software developer what core better to build a small OS on than the Linux kernel. Being that it's open source has many advantages, namely it improves quickly and bugs are fixed in days rather than years (cough Microsoft cough cough IE). Anyone how has been a windows user long can tell you, there isn't a lot of differences between all the versions of them, a few tools added, and some stuff is now in a new spot, o0o and they finally got plug and play right. But other than that all your buying from the massive corp is a bloated version of the same kernel you bought in 1995, only the Gui's change. I must admit it though, Microsoft had one really good OS,, MS-DOS (which I own). The fact that we can honestly compare Linux to Windows says a lot, it tells me the Windows is a rip off, how else could you compare something that was produced by a multi-billion dollar corporation, to something that was produced in peoples basements.

~peace~
Long live the penguin

 

Yeah, like we have RedHat 9 on one of our computers here.

I like Windows 98 a lot...

 

I'm about to go on a second Linux course at college and it is facinating to see the clash of worlds between Win and Linux. Linux is constantly evolving and changing and is (essentially) free. Windows takes forever to change much and costs an arm and a leg unless you get it with a new machine.

The main thing holding Linux back from taking over, is that not enough developers are making a desktop soliution that Windows users can easily swap over onto. Redhat is nearly there (but some say they're as bad as M$) and I'm having a look at Xandros.
The trouble is many Linux affectionados will delibrately make thier interface so different to OSX and Windows just because they want to be different, which does rather alienate everyone but the peeps who can afford to get down and dirty configuring stuff

 

Bleh, and just as i say that, a letter pops thru the post saying they'vecancelledthe course due to low numbers Ironic...

 

I only like Linux because it is an Open Source Operating System, i like to mess around with code and stuff

 

I've got a couple things to say. 1--Unix already is everywhere. Unix made the internet. Only a small fraction of the internet(or any local network, for that matter) is run on a microsoft system(sql, right?) 2--dos is a great os, but frankly, it's shit for networking. Ms-dos is made so one pc will run independent, wher as unix can have many smaller pcs running off one large one. 3--Hp and dell suck ass

 

*nix is already the present of networking, and large tasks, and Linux will soon start taking over PC's. Xwindows is getting so easy for a windows person to use... and I don't mind it because it still has all the same wicked potential as it ever did.

 

I like what Apple did with MacOS X, they took an open source unix (freebsd) & wrote their own (excellent) GUI on top of it.
The only one you can REALLY use IMO... This way you can have a unix system & not deal with ANY unix "tech" stuff if you don't want to.

 

This may be what takes down Microsoft and may one day lead us into more open society as a whole. Eurpoe doesn't have near all the copywright laws and filesharing bans as the U.S. and they aren't falling apart at the seams. Maybe we should stop protecting corporations and stick up for the common man. Go linux!

 

I Agree and would very much like to see it happenning.
The main obstacle as i see it is that most programmers involved in free software projects are great programmers but poor designers.
They don't think like a user, thus creating a system which THEY would like to use. the result is a great system from 'professional' point of view, but not so from the simple user's point of view. if i was a first time user, i couldn't possibly use Linux since it's much too complicated and has too many options.

maybe one day someone would re-design it from the user perspective & not from the tech-pro's.

 

Very true. They are getting there tho. Redhat and SuSe are getting easier to use from a Windows user perspective, and Xandros has settings to make it's interface work like Windows/MacOS etc etc... One edition also comes with Crossover, a wine based windows emulator.

I've yet to give it a good try as yet, but it looks the most promising

 

Linux has been and always will be the best OS, why? because its open source, allowing any skilled programmer to fix errors/add your own features rather then have the paid worker add features depending on who out of the majority would want them.