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| Thread ID: 38795 | 2003-10-18 21:10:00 | 8 and more reasons to switch to linux! | ilikelinux (1418) | Press F1 |
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| 184531 | 2003-10-19 01:27:00 | Can't possibly be more than windows. :p Sure all the individual programs get updated lots because they are still being worked on. But with MS your not getting any new features, just bug and security fixes -every damn day of the week. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 184532 | 2003-10-19 10:10:00 | Will people just drop it once and for all. > 1- Free Is your time worth nothing? When you're competent and familiar with Windows, Linux can take quite a long time to get used to. > 2-Stable I forget the last time my Windows XP Pro box crashed. Or my 98se one, not that I use that one much myself (family PC). > 3-Compatibility - works on most pc's So Windows doesn't? Windows will install and actually work on most ordinary systems where Linux will need helping to get things to work. > 4-Integrates with windows and macs So does Windows. > 5-Workstation and/or Server in one- it's your choice! Windows can be a server too you know? > 6-No viruses.. One could be written. > 7-You can contribute to some distributions\ Well you've got me there, but one can still contribute to many applications which can be used on Windows. > 8-Most windows hardware is compatible with linux. You'll find it a tad harder getting drivers for Linux though. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 184533 | 2003-10-19 10:19:00 | > It is so slooooww it is unbeliveable... Really? What things were starting on boot? Someone mentioned this to me the other day so I timed my boot up time last night. It takes 35 seconds for me to go from the boot manager to the graphical login prompt. Athlon XP 2000, Gentoo Linux 1.4 |
segfault (655) | ||
| 184534 | 2003-10-19 10:22:00 | > > 6-No viruses.. > One could be written. many are out there already: Linux.Slapper.D Linux.Sorso Linux.Jac.8759 just to name a few :-) type "linux virus" in to google |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 184535 | 2003-10-19 10:33:00 | > > 6-No viruses.. > > One could be written. It really bugs me when people say that. A virus simply wouldn't work very well because it would have to be executable to run. If the virus was able to do that, the impact of it would be limited to the users home directory only, because they wouldn't (presumably) have write access anywhere else on the system. Now you might say that instead a worm would work. That is possible providing the mail app was exploitable, but its not going to have the same impact that OE worms have simply because there are so many *nix mail clients around. An Evolution worm probably wouldn't affect a Thunderbird client and vice versa. |
segfault (655) | ||
| 184536 | 2003-10-19 11:23:00 | Im gonna agree with Segfault here, Viruses in Linux are simply defeated mostly before they even have a chance... The file-system schematics of Linux alone make it so much more secure than doze's, even though NTFS has attempted to catch up with it. So you write a virus in linux... I can write one.. you run it and it executes: rf -rf ~/ That's it, all the users' data's gone for good.... Guess what, I can only touch my own Documents.. Imagine in Doze with viruses being restricted to your My Documents folder? If you're anyone who's ever used a PC, you'll know about backing up... Do it in doze.. Do it in Linux.. Any user who's got half a brain and 5 mins spare will backup! And that's another good point.. Coz there's a lot of diff. Mail apps in Linux (While a distro has many bundled, you get the choice, and none becomes "Default") its different from writing a virus for Outlook Express (Which apparently around 70%+ of home users have as a default mail client!). WinModem's... Pity the person who intentionally buys one (Not me.. I was given it ;-)). Even still, there's pretty good driver support in Linux. Google, lspci and ScanModem are your friends! As for load times... My PC's up and running in 29 seconds on an AMD Athlon XP 1700+.. Now, how many XP Home/Pro users are running a Proxy, FTP, and Web-Server 24/7? I do... Adds a good 2, maybe 3 seconds to the load time (Shock horror that I should wait that long for a PC to boot ;-)). I love Linux, but I still cant get away from Doze.... No matter which way you dice it, its here for the next 10 years at least I'd bet... but I cant remember seeing an article ever on NewsForge about a multi-million dollar enterprise switching to Doze because Linus Torvalds stiffed them... |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 184537 | 2003-10-19 12:23:00 | What if the user was logged in as root though? As I'm sure a lot of people do not realising that they shouldn't be logged in as root all the time. As for the speed issue, it's the loading of applications which gets me. Windows just seems to scream ahead in this department. Loading Mozilla in Linux takes way longer in comparison. This is in a standard installation type config. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 184538 | 2003-10-19 14:51:00 | Three resasons not to use Linux. (1) No modem drivers. (2) Noo scanner drivers. (3)No printer drivers. And (4) Mouse only works sometimes |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 184539 | 2003-10-19 17:56:00 | > > It is so slooooww it is unbeliveable... > > Really? What things were starting on boot? Someone > mentioned this to me the other day so I timed my boot > up time last night. It takes 35 seconds for me to go > from the boot manager to the graphical login prompt. > Athlon XP 2000, Gentoo Linux 1.4 Good point segfault. |
The_Banned_One (4744) | ||
| 184540 | 2003-10-19 20:35:00 | JM> Are you trying to tell me your user account in Windows doesnt have Admin rights? Are you trying to tell me that there's some sort of prevention system in place stopping you from removing your Program Files and subdirectories? If the user is using rm -rf then they'll have likely been told by a friend who's warned them of the dangers of -rf (Recursive Forced for all those non-linux users.. means delete subdirectories/files without prompting for each), or they've read the man page which also details that you need to be careful. And my MozillaFirebird is loaded in less than 2 seconds in Linux compared to Doze which takes a good 3-4, maybe 5 seconds depending on how many other apps are open. Mozilla wasnt meant to be a pre-bundled solution, and you really only see the strengths of it when you've compiled it from source. i dont know anybody who owns a PC of their own who would log into WinXP as a restricted user? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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