What's your favorite entertaining podcast about Linux?
Which Unix-like OS / Linux distro do you prefer?
Ubuntu is Debian based. |
Funny that there's no selection for just Debian, Slackware, RedHat. All "based". |
For what use? |
try linux mint
Kubuntu is not the best KDE experience right out of the box; SUSE and PCLinuxOS (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3016) are probably the best. And you don't know how fast KDE can be until you learn to roll your own with Gentoo / Sabayon. Most core KDE developers use Gentoo themselves. It's a German thing. :roll:
I prefer windows over linux cuz my desktop has the latest parts and I constantly upgrade. However linux doesnt have workable and reliable drivers for a while. I'm a huge gamer so thats an issue. I'll talk smack on linux but I'll admit there are other devices I have and other situations I would rather choose linux over windows.
BTW...
Anyone have any opinions on the recently-announced Google Chrome OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS)?
I can't wait to play with it either, but I'm betting I'll prefer to stick with Vista because it's actually on my hard drive instead of on the internet.BTW...
Anyone have any opinions on the recently-announced Google Chrome OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS)?
Can't wait to play with it. My opinions on software/hardware are always based on my own experience.
Anyone have any opinions on the recently-announced Google Chrome OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS)?
I don't like the idea of terminals/servers. I prefer to keep all of my data on my own system, and release the parts of it that I want to share.
Karmic fixed wifi range, but causes disconnects... IF NetworkManager works... it doesn't always.
I've been happy with WICD
What's your favorite entertaining podcast about Linux?
Got three I listen to regularly
gutsy geeks
floss
linux in the ham shack
Karmic doesn't yet have working fglrx either though. Once that's in there, or radeonhd or radeon can play videos decently, I'll be on it likely.
fglrx wouldn't compile for me, but Debian had them prepackaged. That's the whole reason for having "distributions", isn't it?
OpenSUSE is what I always use when I want to use Linux. Ubuntu is also good, but I prefer KDE.Kubuntu
OpenSUSE is what I always use when I want to use Linux. Ubuntu is also good, but I prefer KDE.Kubuntu
It didn't seem to get as much support as Ubuntu/OpenSUSE. It's like the ugly stepchild of Ubuntu-land.OpenSUSE is what I always use when I want to use Linux. Ubuntu is also good, but I prefer KDE.Kubuntu |
Kubuntu is good because it is built on Ubuntu and its great package management system
It didn't seem to get as much support as Ubuntu/OpenSUSE. It's like the ugly stepchild of Ubuntu-land.OpenSUSE is what I always use when I want to use Linux. Ubuntu is also good, but I prefer KDE.Kubuntu
Kubuntu is good because it is built on Ubuntu and its great package management system, but it's not the most solid / best KDE distro (http://www.google.com/search?q=best+kde+distro+2009) by far.
The best KDE performance I've had was with Gentoo.
Kubuntu is good because it is built on Ubuntu and its great package management system, but it's not the most solid / best KDE distro by far.
and package management / installation was way still slower than with Ubuntu (i.e. minutes to calculate dependencies)
for some things I had to use CNR, and for some reason I also had to use smart as well.
I didn't try it for long, and I might not be recalling some things accurately, but what I remember is a general frustration in setting up all the software I typically want on a Linux box
something which on Ubuntu only requires adding 3-4 repositories and running a batch of apt-get commands.
Sidux if you know your way around linux.
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich) and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_national_de_recherche_en_informatique_et_en_automatique) have now developed a scheme for protecting implantable medical devices against wireless attacks (http://www.technologyreview.in/computing/23923/). The approach relies on using ultrasound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound) waves to determine the exact distance between a medical device and the wireless reader attempting to communicate with it.
It's of course a stretch for now, but it's fully conceivable that future bodily implants will roughly resemble modern-day computers, which can be hacked or DoS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack)'ed in a number of ways...
If I can't agree with any OS philosophically, I might as well continue pirating Windows... :cry:
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The moderators of this forum insist on removing this post I've previously made on this thread, most likely due to the small part of it highlighted in red below:QuoteYou have to define your market share criteria more specifically - per CPU, per desktop user, etc. Linux definitely has the lion's share of the supercomputing market, the server market, and it's doing well in some embedded / NetBook market segments as well.
The only market segment where the >1% Linux market share is debatable is the most visible one - desktop users. I think that if you do a study that adjusts for people trying Linux very briefly before going back to Windows and socialist government organizations where Microsoft isn't a politically-viable option then Linux desktop still falls short of 1%.
Also, here's a funny story: I was running OpenBSD for a while, and a couple of Web-sites gave me trouble before I changed my Firefox user-agent string to pretend it's Linux, and then I never set it back... A lot of Solaris, *BSD, AIX, etc users run Linux browser binaries, which will fool a lot of casual studies. I think many studies just assume that anything that isn't Microsoft / Mac and smells Unixy is Linux, and that would also include the various bots crawling the Internet, many proxy users, etc.
It is perfectly relevant and essential objection to the Linux usage market share statistics - if the government imposes a certain alternative by force then it isn't a market! Was Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book" really the best-selling book of the 20th century? Of course not, the Chinese government just printed it ad nauseum and forced everyone to carry it! The same would apply to communist countries where Linux's main competitors can't do business, but whose users are nonetheless counted as part of that ~1%. A discussion that fails to address this issue doesn't even begin to approach the realm of truth!
You can have your political spin, or you can have the credibility that I lend to this forum. You cannot have both.
or is it just me?