Linux run on Pentium 3, 4, Dual Core, Core2Duo, i3 to i7 and only upgrade when necessary. So no wastage of hardware.

What is horrifying, though, is how many of those who left comments seem to believe this leg-pull.

Like the poor, the terminally stupid will always be with us.

Keep using Windows, morons, draw the malware fire away from us Linux users.

I was sceptical about Linux, and only went to it as a final resort. I went to the linux.org website, where I was informed that Ubuntu Linux was among the best of the distribution, backed by a commercial software company. After downloading the live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala) and burning it, I attempted boot. I chose to ‘Install Ubuntu’, and after the OS booted to the installer screen, I was presented with a ‘wizard’ type window. It took me through six steps, involving choosing languages/localization, keyboard layout, time zone, disk allocation, user setup and a summary, the installation began, displaying a presentation about Ubuntu. The installation took barely 15mins to complete, and after it restarted, I found myself at a snazzy login screen, and after logging on, was presented with a friendly interface, GNOME. Having never seen it before, it worked for me, quickly and easily.

It also notified me about the propriety drivers for my Broadcom w/lan device, available from my CD, which I then installed. I could update my computer from the extremely fast UK virgin Media Server, a task which took barely an hour, considering that the CD was from about 5 months previous to my install. I found it extremely easy to install programs from the Ubuntu Software Centre, which did it for me automatically, and the OS came preloaded with OpenOffice, Firefox, Archive Mounter, Totem Movie Player, Sound Recorder and the GIMP Image Editor.

I actually took an instant warming to it, and use it on a daily basis, resorting to Windows only occasionally.

The instant customization of the desktop meant that my little sister, who is aged 4, can use the GCompris educational suite, with it starting at logon. I can also remove the password for her account
(run ’sudo passwd -d ‘ in a terminal). I used it to rescue a friends old computer, he has Win7 on one, and Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 on another, and says that it is ‘actually better tan Windows’.

All that Linux suffers from is a bad name; from sites like this. It is not impossible to run anything, Windows Viruses, if run on WINE, are in a sandboxed Windows environment, no more set-up wizards, just a big ‘install’ button in the software centre, which is an online repository of tested and up-to-date software maintained by Canonical.

I am so pleased with it, I do indeed rarely used Microsoft Windows at home. Only where it is forced upon me, in the classroom, do I use it.

When i tried ubuntu i just had to click all 50programs i wanted and the system did the rest for me!!!!!! i had to go swim with my Girlfriend FFS DAMN YOU LINUX!!!!!

Oh, and Microsoft has nothing whatsoever to fear from the Penguin or the Daemon – after all, every machine sold with Windows XP or Vista is known to our benevolent Big Brother, right? I mean, they have to be activated now and then, and download updates regularly, so BB knows how many Windows machines are running, in people’s homes, at least? Could it really be that some licenses are never activated? Or stop activating after a while? Surely that must be because the owner bought a newer, bigger system 6 months later – or, horrors, could it be that Windows has been REPLACED, or that the user has stopped double booting? Is the F in the FUD really Microsoft’s own Fear?

I refer you to his response(s) to a ZDnet Article: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579806&start=43 (there are plenty more demonstrations of his expertise in the thread), and to the “fan site” that this phenomenon started: http://jerryleecooper.com

A “Jerry Lee Cooper” has been posting garbage like this since about 2003. No one remains that ignorant for that long.

Anyway, because I am neither for or against Microsoft nor Open Source in principle, but promote fact and honesty (which, in practice, favors F/OSS over Microsoft, especially since the “Halloween Documents” have been exposed), allow me to clarify JLC’s claims about the GPL before any more FUD takes root.

Yes, the GPL is viral, but only insofar as any software (human-readable code or compiled/executable binary) derived from software licensed under the GPL inherits the GPL’s terms, which include a provision that any derivative may not restrict the user’s rights to view, modify, or redistribute it. However, USING GPL software (such as Linux as an Operating System and gcc as a compiler) to develop completely original source code or extend/incorporate other free non-GPL code does NOT impart the terms of the GPL to the resultant software. And the requirement to make the source code available only applies when distributing (selling, giving away, pre-installing on an OEM system) GPL-licensed software. A distributor is not required to give the software away free of charge, only to include the source code, or instructions on how to obtain the source code. An individual or company using modified GPL software INTERNALLY, who does not distribute the software to any third party, does need to give the source code to anybody.

Here’s the bottom line. Yes, Linux and other GPL software is free to use. Millions of man-hours have been contributed, largely without renumeration, in developing these projects. However, to keep others from exploiting the resultant software as the product of free and cheap labor, the programmers chose to apply terms of use that specify that the software is free to use by anyone and for any purpose, and that EVERYONE who gets a copy is entitled to those same freedoms as well. The ONLY ONES to whom these terms really matter are DISTRIBUTORS and DEVELOPERS. Day-to-day USERS of the software don’t have to worry about it, but at least can rest easy knowing that their software isn’t pirated.

There’s another version of the GPL, by the way, known as the Lesser/Library GPL or LGPL, which allows thusly licensed discrete software packages (such as fonts, programming libraries, or other external file) to be incorporated into differently-licensed software without requiring that other software to expose its source code, so long as the LGPL’ed code isn’t enmeshed indistinguishably with the non-LGPL’ed code. LGPL is still viral, but only applies to the LGPL’ed part(s). The rest of the program can be as proprietary as Microsoft Windows Server 2008. (Which, by the way, still uses FreeBSD-derived code for its networking stack, as all Windows NT systems have since 2000.)

And dont’forget: GPL is viral!

If your comapany develops software, and they run it on Linux, GPL can force your company to publish its own code under GPL for no charge!

This would never happen with MS products.

Don’t worry, after your bosses slap you around a little and tell you to stop screwing around and wasting all your time trying to convince his employee’s that Open Office is not shit, then you may realize that there is still a world out there, and you need to go out and enjoy it. You may want to grab the new Ultra Mobile PC from Dell with Windows Vista on it. Then try something really unusual, an Operating System that kicks ass on any piece of shit biestro that some bunch of Linux HACKs have slapped together.

Sit and enjoy an operating system that does not need to be explained to you by some MIT knuckle head before you can even get it installed and running.

Keep in mind this one thought. Linux and Microsoft are both like hookers. One is high priced, and Linux is a skank.

It is really a powerful O.S.

I also admit to following:

1. I admit that i am liar.
2. I beg pardon from all of you.
3. I will never use windows again.
4. I am a big whack.quack-quack.
5. I will learn some basic programming.
6. I will pray to god each day.
7. I will never tell a lie.
8. I will never say that America is a powerful country.
9. I will never ever masturbate.

to be contd….

>>>> Ho Ho Ho!!! Funny, i loved that…..

Cheers