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How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1500
Survival" is a relatively useless condition if you are in a coma, eh? I think that a more realistic view is that...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1501
Not sure what you're trying to say here, except to add possibly irrelevant parameters to my statement. I'll leave it to who might be...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1502
You don't seem to understand your own premise then. You said that it was a miracle that linux has survived "completely sans any major insbreastutional force". If you want to say that...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1503
Hmmm. There are limits on what a monopolist can do to prevent compebreastion in a market. The article I cited notes that there are problems with the tactics they are using...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1504
At the low end, who needs a branded OS at all? There is no real face...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1505
This is the essence of my disagreement with "billwg" over XP Home vs XP Pro, but you say it better. He appears to think in terms of price points for a given level of functionality...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1506
So who wants to make a business out of "appealing to computer professionals"? Why do you resent the people who want to make a business out of...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1507
IBM and Novell, apparently. Just because a mbutt consumer market exists does not mean that nobody...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1508
We are talking of different things, obviously. IBM and Novell and others (Red Hat, Dell, HP, for example) serve a server market with characteristics quite different from the...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1509
snip keeping the above for context I think you have me confused with someone else. I haven't made any claims regarding the commercial success of Linux. I answered...
How about a comparison on merit, not marketing 1510
begin Error log for Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:20:01 +0000 - billwg caused a details as follows .vbs On this point we agree (a first and probably a last). This is where Linux advocates come in...
Be Specific ratskink
Corpus You can start here;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; You totally fail to mention what required ACTION FROM MICROSOFT...
Introduction to Mono Your first Mono app 1512
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Cletis Tout wrote on Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:19:45 GMT And what, precisely, were you...
Introduction to Mono Your first Mono app 1513
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Köhlmann wrote on Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:42:59 +0100 There's a notion -- The Virus In The Machine? No thank you... :-P The...
Introduction to Mono Your first Mono app 1514
What version did you install? The base version, if you just: # emerge mono will give you like 0.28 or something awful old... You will probably want to make use ofetc-portage-package.keywords to make...
LinuxElectrons Daily Digest 1515
This is the daily digest from LinuxElectrons for 03-03-05 Stop by the forums and say Hi at: ------------------------------ breastle: Cost-effective Fingerprint...
An end to tweaking 1516
Some drivers become "locked" once loaded, because they're essensial to the running of the system...
An end to tweaking Approved: yes
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:01:52 -0700, comp.os.spil Doinganythingrecursive with DOS batch makes my head hurt. ;) It was a very, very sparse language indeed, and perhaps...
An end to tweaking 1518
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.spil wrote on 11 Jul 2005 09:01:52 -0700 One of the more interesting issues to my mind...
ten buck fedora
General Schvantzkoph The previously mentioned lack of any software except what's on the hard drive is...
MSFT heading down, down
OK MSFT is far more widely held. When it declines, everybody's mutual fund is robbed. By the way, Billy hasn't stopped selling the farm: 11-Feb-05...
Installing a Printer in Linux is EASY 1521
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:28:15 -0600, mjt That's a very nice looking distribution especially the background picture. The problem is that the person installing the...
Installing a Printer in Linux is EASY 1522
This is adding a Printer via the Xandros Distro. You are way to stupid to get to the real root of the problem. I will clue you in. Go to your precious Zandros...
Pan word wrapping an example of slopware 1523
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:44:23 -0500, DFS No, I do not. I may occasionally agree with other posters when...
Pan word wrapping an example of slopware 1524
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:58:01 +0000 To Windows XP et al, of course. Everyone should be using Windows XP. The...
M audio under Linux with MM kernel under mandrake sound server crashes
WHOLLY poo!!!!!!! Kernel? C-Programs? Loopback Configuration? poo!!!! You MUST be running Linux (AKA LINSUX)....... Look dude, if you ever intend to make music, not "music" based on...
iPod Linux
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:10:49 -0600, Liam Slider Don't buttume what you don't know. I've been to both of those pages. Mr. Hall is using Fedora, NOT Suse 9.2...
Merit argument: the real issue
In for a penny, in for a pound, I guess. In any case, the local Usenet warriors are gonna have a lot...
Merit argument: the real issue. 1528
Longfellow Very wordy, if not far too longwinded and meandering. I read about 50%. Hope you're not too disappointed. I have to ask: What's wrong with three or four paragraphs, rather than 28? It...
Merit argument: the real issue. 1529
https:--www.fsf.org-news-freebios.html But, actually, it doesn't. People have attempted to insert trojans into the Linux source code, and...
Got Linux to boot
Ok, I finally got Linux to boot on my system. Had to find a third party burner to be able...
Got Linux to boot! 1531
Snit poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: It is nice to see someone try Linux, even if they say it ain't perfect...
Got Linux to boot! 1532
Seems to fit my earlier experiences and my thoughts on it - Linux can be great for folks who like to tinker or who have it set up by someone who knows their needs. It...
Got Linux to boot! 1533
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:22:39 -0700, So the root problem was Apple's difficulty in...
Got Linux to boot! 1534
You can believe that if you wish. :) You worked with a LiveCD for a couple of weeks? Makes sense, and I should have thought about that. Thanks. As long as it is easy to...
Got Linux to boot! 1535
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:37:54 -0700, what else could it be? was the iso not following the iso spec...
Got Linux to boot! 1536
It did not work with the mostly likely tool for it to be used with. I do not know who did...
Got Linux to boot! 1537
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:42:18 -0700, It works fine with the tools...
Got Linux to boot! 1538
Oh, if recent older versions of Apple's utilities worked and the new ones do not I certainly would not blame the...
Got Linux to boot! 1539
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:00:58 -0700, Like I said, I have seen nothing that states what the root problem is, so...
Got Linux to boot! 1540
I was not looking for the root cause, but simply at the silliness of putting out a disk image...
Got Linux to boot! 1541
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 05:40:04 -0700, Limited dev time is one reason. It can work, it can be...
Got Linux to boot! 1542
Jim Richardson A good example of Snit doing this sort of thing recently was when I asked him if he...
Got Linux to boot! 1543
It is the down side of being so configurable and having so many distros - a user at a minimum has to decide what distro...
Got Linux to boot! 1544
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:23:38 -0700, Ah, I thought we were discussing a single distro-environment, and...
Got Linux to boot! 1545
No I mean Linux as a whole - and then, even when you do pick DE and distro, it seems that Linux is built to be more configurable. Good for the advanced user, but only good...
Got Linux to boot! 1546
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:21:06 -0700, Not sure I...
Got Linux to boot! 1547
A new user is not going to remove the dock nor the menu from OS X. They might remove dock icons, such as the volume and the monitor settings, but...
Got Linux to boot! 1548
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:49:53 -0700, Well, I think we've established that you can't remove the last panel...
Got Linux to boot! 1549
You're being trolled right now. This list is just some of the comments this NG has made in observance of Snit's behavior...
Got Linux to boot! 1550
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:11:48 -0700, it's just an...
Three Times The Curse
If there's any thing that might make an unbeliever out of me, it's sound in Linux. On the machine I bought about a year ago, it came with the built in via chipset for sound...
Three Times The Curse 1552
in poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Fair enough. Fair enought. I...
Three Times The Curse 1553
Linønut I followed these directions to a Tee using the 1.08 build. Here are the specific instructions from...
Torvalds and the Importance of Linux
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you read the applicable law you find that copyright laws do not make it a crime to copy software or music or movies for...
Query... 1555
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:47:23 +0100, Roy Culley Prove it please... Really? Those of you that have no...
Query... 1556
begin risky.vbs I have never stolen anything in my entire adult life. You bragged about...
Query... 1557
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:51:41 +0100, Roy Culley Stoll harping on Mandrake 7.x? FWIW, let's put this into context. I purchased MD and thought it was reasonable. I copied it and gave...
Query... 1558
begin risky.vbs I don't have to try. You discrdit yourself. A self confessed thief. Need I say more? This is another of your...
Is Enterprise Linux Free
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:51:13 +0100, OK When your distro includes a thousand or more applications, even an average of one update per application per six months means 2000 updates per year, or...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1560
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Grug wrote on 4 Mar 2005 19:00:59 -0800 Nothing, of course. Linux isn't designed to work well. Linux is merely designed to...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1561
On 5 Mar 2005 14:01:57 GMT, 9 Way I buttume you're referring to UGO, but does it? Think...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1562
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:47:05 -0600, Again, Erik is being, er, less than accurate...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1563
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:34:38 -0800, Jim Richardson No, i'm not. There's more than one way to add or remove a user. Of course not every distro uses the same...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1564
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:54:54 -0800, Jim Richardson Actually, they are. At least on Windows (I don't know how ACL's are implemented under Linux, but I would hope it's similar). ACL's are tied to...