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| 140827 | 2003-05-03 00:35:00 | > Worst OS would be Windows ME, though I've never > actually had it installed on any of my own computers. > I did use it at a school. It wasn't nice at all. yeath, any OS part from the NT family at schools are not nice, because students stuff them up etc... etc.... :) I used win 95/98/98SE at school (college) & it was not nice at all either, the best OS I used at school was Win 2000 pro & XP on a laptop. |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 140828 | 2003-05-03 02:44:00 | SusanB: Yep, I'm keen. | whetu (237) | ||
| 140829 | 2003-05-03 03:25:00 | > the major setbacks for nix at the moment are the > unintuitive UI, lack of driver support, and the > narrowmindedness of the nix community . They expect > joebloggs to be able to compile and install from a > bash terminal session, and they wonder why linux isnt > taking off like it could? Whereas any joebloggs on a > win32 machine can download and install an . exe or > . zip without much problem . . . show me an installer > where you have to open up cmd and type out lengthy > strings and i'll show you a program that is hardly > used at all . Well, I think its time you came to ICE and had a chat to the man behind Yoper Linux . In all honestly, its the best thing since sliced bread! If anybody has a spare $90 and would like to buy me a copy, by all means, Im not going to complain :-) He has created it with replacing windows in mind, and I'll be damned, he's done it! He's shown me it running Photoshop 7 with ease, then he also loads up MS Office 2K, Outlook and Word for this example, then he says to me "How about we play a little UT?"! So he loads up Unreal Tournament on a P4 2 . 0Ghz with only 256MB RAM . . He's got Photoshop going, bear in mind, and he's also got MS Office 2K apps sitting open as well, Word and Outlook (He had the whole office suite installed and working perfectly!), then he loads up UT2K3 and has a good game, running it at 1280x1024, and still getting great framerates . . . Full Detail levels on EVERYTHING in the game, 32 Bit color! Now, I know for a fact that PC's running Photoshop need an absolute minimum of 128MB RAM, and even then, they can struggle . . . Now to me, that's power . He admits the installer is still text based, but when I downloaded RC2, it was still easy enough to do . Everything else is dead simple, and he's made it with replacing windows in mind, and quite frankly he's done it! Yoper . com is the website I believe, otherwise come into ICE, have a look around . . Find the guy . . Chat to him . . He's even got Yoper on a little PDA :-) After 5 minutes with him, he's the nicest guy on earth, and he's huble about having created something that will change the way people see linux! *My rant for the day* Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 140830 | 2003-05-03 03:54:00 | ok calm down and take a couple of breaths . . you're getting so excited that you're beginning to repeat yourself and you're starting to sound an awful lot like an informercial ;) I'm not going to the ICE . . it's not quite my thing While it is great that there are distributions that are making leaps and bounds in progress, there is still the flipside that the word just isnt getting out . Go to berkeley in the USA and ask any of their computer sciences students if they've heard of yoper . It's great to hear that a kiwi is at the forefront of this progression, but looking at it realistically, yoper is still reasonably word-of-mouth advertising based . It's still small-time in the linux scheme . Yoper could very well change the linux world, but its still early times for it . The best we can do is give it our support and continue to get word out about it, if not for what it offers in terms of progression for linux as a desktop OS, but even just for the fact that its a kiwi distro . But at the moment if someone new to open source asks "i want to try linux, which distro should I go for?" there's a high probability that they'll be told lycoris, redhat or mandrake . It's not until yoper becomes one of those few distros (and not just locally or in the confines of this forum . . internationally) that it'll really have as a big an impact as you and I hope it will . |
whetu (237) | ||
| 140831 | 2003-05-03 04:24:00 | Agreed. Although it was on top of Distrowatch for Yonks! |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 140832 | 2003-05-03 04:27:00 | One of the main reasons I can see in using Linux is the cost. This seems to be completely over ridded when you go and use Photoshop and MS Office on it anyway. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 140833 | 2003-05-03 20:53:00 | > One of the main reasons I can see in using Linux is > the cost. This seems to be completely over ridded > when you go and use Photoshop and MS Office on it > anyway. And he had Internet Explorer 6 running on it too ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 140834 | 2003-05-04 03:38:00 | In total agreement with whetu. Win2000 PRO is the current king of "Windows" Operating Systems. XP is unfinished and full of BS - 2k Pro is extremely stable (as stable as Windows can be) and is great for pretty much anything - it's also the overclocker's best friend. |
HadO (796) | ||
| 140835 | 2003-05-04 04:04:00 | IMHO - Win2K is 'Mature' :-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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