Topic: Microsoft (Read 22870 times)

Alex Libman · « **Reply #45 on:** March 20, 2011, 06:21:54 AM »

Fine, enjoy playing with tmux - I won't.

I agree about BSD being "less polished" and "a weird little sect" compared to Linux, but there is an absolutely crucial difference - Linux is not free software, while FreeBSD is closer, and OpenBSD is getting pretty close... It's like the American Revolution - sure, the colonies were less civilized than London, but it was all about freedom, and in the end London had to reform as well.

None of this applies to KDE! They now use the same legal restrictions, and the technical differences between the two are not very significant. And it has even less coherence than a pure Gnome desktop because of all the apps for which there are no KDE equivalents. But the only GUI app you really need is the browser.

Pointless reminder: this used to be a Microsoft thread... With Interix + X, Windows makes a darn good UNIX workstation also... but without any nvidia or flash crashes, and a lot more apps to choose from...

Zhwazi · « **Reply #46 on:** March 20, 2011, 03:07:21 PM »

KDE is good for reasons that don't apply to your needs. That doesn't make it less good for others. It being weird does not make it inferior. There aren't any apps that I need that don't have KDE equivalents except for apps that don't usually have GTK versions either. I don't need anything very weird...a browser, a multimessenger, an IRC client, a mail client, skype, a music player, and a terminal are the most common applications I use. KOffice isn't amazing but it's good enough for what little I do that I can't use a browser WYSIWYG editor for and Krita's interface was much much better than GIMP's last I used it.

Also, I've never had problems using nVidia's binary driver for FreeBSD.

Alex Libman · « **Reply #47 on:** March 24, 2011, 04:17:52 PM »

Positive Microsoft Headline RoundUp:

University Finds Windows HPC Server 26% Faster Than Linux, More Cost-Effective [WP] (This is huge! And note that humongous amounts of tax-victim dollars were poured into Linux clustering / supercomputing R&D, while Microsoft pays those taxes and only gets bullied by government thugs in return!)

Microsoft Rocks at Online Video, From #7 to #2 in a Month [2]

Why the Windows Server crew deserves respect, too ("The lessons of Unix history are not lost on Windows")

MS partner ecosystem revenues reach $580 billion (while Loonix developers are mostly paid in egoboo)

Microsoft is #2 most valuable tech brand (Google is #1, IBM #4, Apple #8, Amazon #32, Oracle #53)

Microsoft and Google find common ground in open networking

Windows Phone 7 had a stronger start than Google's Android. [WP]

System Center 2012 will take Microsoft through the datacenter to the cloud [WP]

Shipments of Windows servers hit all time high

Microsoft's Cloud and Mobile Strategy: Partner With Everyone

Microsoft to release non-commercial SDK for Kinect [WP]

Microsoft has released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

The 8th Microsoft store opens tomorrow [WP]

Microsoft Steps Up Accessibility

Alex Libman · « **Reply #48 on:** April 01, 2011, 08:42:46 PM »

Microsoft To Open Source Windows... as GPL!

That does it, I'm switching back to Linux, which was just BSD'ed!

Alex Libman · « **Reply #49 on:** April 05, 2011, 08:22:29 AM »

I just came across an open source project that hits the communist quadfecta: it's GPL, it's Lispy, it's written at a "public" university, and it wastes lots of resources for a foolish goal. Also, IT'S NAMED AFTER JOSEPH STALIN! Though, to be fair, there also was a Microsoft Stalin project back in the 1990s, but eventually they changed the name to Bob.

Positive Microsoft Headline RoundUp: