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| Thread ID: 81969 | 2007-08-12 09:23:00 | Format - the ultimate nuke method. Good or Bad? | Bozo (8540) | Press F1 |
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| 579916 | 2007-08-18 03:53:00 | I am a windows user from when it was windows and ran Linux alongside since about 1987.Linux did not exist in 1987. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 579917 | 2007-08-18 04:10:00 | The Linux kernel was first released to the public on 17 September 1991, for the Intel x86 PC architecture. UNIX was created in the 1960's and 1970's. Pawned I would say Kjaada:lol: Nice catch Bletch:thumbs: |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 579918 | 2007-08-18 05:43:00 | PCTek, we are off track here, I said imaging is a copout for solving issues problems! As for bloat, I dont know about your config's, but the work pc's here do not 'bloat', from everyday use. I have yet to come across the need for registry cleaner! Imaging for home pc's are a good idea, if the user knows which user files to keep etc. The only issue I have with imaging is that the user doesnt learn what the caused the problem that they resolved with the imaging. Well no you didn't. You just said its silly. Anyway I do it with my builds. No the user doesn't always learn, but thats what we are for. And should disaster occur for whatever reason, I really don't want to have to reinstall the thing all over again. I explain what an image is, and recommend they do regular backups for their data but I still image them. Kind of like the Compaqs, Dells and so on. Yes I know they don't provide a Windows CD, but they also do it as its a fast method of getting the PC back to its original state. Their original state is rather bloated already...but we'll skip that argument. As for business PCs not getting bloat. Most are connected to a server and stuff is written to that server. Nor does the average business user customise the desktop, install fancy screensavers and make various other changes to their PC. So a lot of that doesn't happen to it. And I don't think most registry cleaners are very good for that matter. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 579919 | 2007-08-18 05:52:00 | UNIX was created in the 1960's and 1970's. Pawned I would say Kjaada:lol: Nice catch Bletch:thumbs: It was originally called UNICS and was first written at AT&T's Bell Labs in September of 1969, it become Unix in November 1971 :) NeXT OS appeared on the scene about 18 years later. www.levenez.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 579920 | 2007-08-18 19:18:00 | Linux did not exist in 1987. We had a unix OS on our mainframe puter from about 1983.It had an airconditioned room all to itself in our office building long before we got desktops with Lotus 123 on them. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 579921 | 2007-08-18 19:54:00 | Back on track . . . . I burn down my root drive every so often . . when CCleaner and reg-cleaners don't seem to be finding too much and the system's still sluggish . I know it's me . . I go to places like YouTube and media sites a lot . . so I guess I get a lot of corruption there . So . . I don't consider it too drastic to burn everything down . . . . but I try to use only this Dell tower for my surfing . . . and some of you know about the rest of my media system . . which NEVER goes online . . so I think any slowness with it is just the huge amount of files/folders that have to be searched . . even by Mepis . This Dell gets slower and slower over the weeks . . so I know it's getting top heavy with junk . That's when I flame it all . . . but I leave my files in the others drives alone . I don't create partitions in my hdds . . . so that makes it easier to clean house too . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 579922 | 2007-08-19 00:53:00 | We had a unix OS on our mainframe puter from about 1983.It had an airconditioned room all to itself in our office building long before we got desktops with Lotus 123 on them.Aha, Unix :rolleyes:.Yes, that's been around a lot longer - but Unix isn't Linux, despite the fact they share some common behaviors. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 579923 | 2007-08-19 01:08:00 | What developed from which ???? I rest my case |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 579924 | 2007-08-19 02:10:00 | What developed from which ???? I rest my case Linux was re written from Unix to get away from the expensive Unix licensing issues and to give programers more freedom. Linus didn't start writing what became Linux(Linus didn't originally call it Linux) until early 1991. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 579925 | 2007-08-19 04:14:00 | What developed from which ???? I rest my caseLinux did not develop from unix - it was written, from scratch, to comply with the POSIX standards. Because both Unix and Linux comply with these standards it makes porting software between them very easy - this is the reason that today Unix and Linux boxes tend to have a lot of programs in common. They are however completely different systems. Linux was re written from Unix to get away from the expensive Unix licensing issues and to give programers more freedom.Nope - it was written because Minix (the version of Unix that Linus was running on his 386) sucked so much, and he already had a terminal emulator running at the hardware level - so he did Linux as a project to teach himself about the low-level features of the 386 processor. It was originally named 'Freax' - this name lasted for the better part of a year until someone else named his FTP upload folder 'Linux'. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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