If you are too lazy and stupid to learn how to use a computer and OS, just buy a MAC and stay out of this forum. Linux's goal was not to have kids playing solitaire... but to become the standard of internetworking. If most ISP use Linux/Unix in their architecture, it's probably not so bad...

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Linux has evolved from the original goal, to include the desktop. Mandrake and Suse are really good on the desktop. I use Mandrake Linux 8.1 Powerpack Edition (purchased) and am waiting for 8.2 powerpack (will arrive in a few days) as part of the Powerpack subscription I purchased. If you want to run NON directx apps in linux, there is Win4Lin. For games, there is WineX, but you need an Nvidia card. I dual boot with win98se, and I like both OSes. If I can migrate my non directx apps to linux via Win4Lin, I will spend my non gaming time in linux, and use win98se for windows games. I am seriously considering purchasing Borland Kylix 2 Professional and learning to program in Object Pascal (can't afford Borland Delphi 6 Pro: waaaay too expensive at $1,000). Yes, I know about Kylix 2 open edition, but, there are features that are only available in the pro edition. Guys and gals: to keep linux going and improving, support your favorite distro by purchasing a package, even if it is only a standard/personal one. Charles

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What Mr "Check Out My Controversial Posting" Marco fails to realise is that LINUX offers us something far more globally significant than a mere alternative: We are offered a "choice" Which is far more than the "cashists" would ever allow us if they had their own way. It's not about being anti-Microsoft it's about allowing peple to make their own choices. Linux is a symbol of freedom and freewill. We are entitled to our opinions and we must make sure we remain entitled to our choices as well. Thats my tuppence worth on the matter anyhow.

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Normally, I would never say this to anybody but in this case, what a stupid ass... Lawrence

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about windows vs. linux... ongoing development. do you know about xp? m$'s new line of xp software is evil. read the EULA. do you know what the x-box is? it's a trick. microsoft cares about games? right... it's a computer with a paddle, everyone knows that. now guess what? if a software developer for pc games wants a name? think about it. it's mainstream, pop culture. it's a name in your head. http://www.arachnoid.com/boycott/index.html ^ to learn about what "xp" is, and what it will become. http://www.geocities.com/netmaniac00/hatems.html ^to learn why/how ms is using you. http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/05/1526255.shtml ^click the links here to see what others, including IBM, think about ms. do you really dare to think that only idiots and little people hate ms? open your eyes. read. learn. stop watching ms-nbc all the time and learn why it's called ms-nbc. even the people at microsoft know that your an idoit if you buy their stuff. so do the tobacco companies. dont belive me? read whats on BOTH of the packages they sell you. both have warnings. you dont think they know what they're doing? ms has trained professionals siting around all day to look for stuff about microsoft! but xp may eliminate the need for that. the only reason why xp stuff is NOT ILEAGAL is because you sign an EULA that says you don't mind being f*cked. read it. read it. you want proof? read the sh*t they have you sign. god, people amaze me. EVEN MIRCOSOFT ITS SELF TELLS YOU HOW THEY ARE f---ING YOU, AND NO ONE BELIVES IT! THEY FAIL TO READ THE FINE PRINT WHEN THEY INSTALL MS SOFTWARE. TRY READING IT ONCE BEFORE YOU CLICK OK. maybe it was a bad idea to give technology to monkeys. computers were never meant to go mainstream anyway. read, people.

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hey buddy, windows was it? ya i remember...i used that thing 4 years ago...s---ty is the word. i found some really true things written at http://www.linuxfreemail.com/miltsalamon.html read that dearest marco

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I notice in one of post 11 links it says that Netscape invented the Browser. I do beleive Mosiac was before Netscape and "both" Netscape Navigator and Internet Explore are based on Mosaic. Just look in the credits of both browers.

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Netscape popularized the browser. Kind of like what Marconi did for radio, and he gets credit for inventing it, while Tesla actually invented the fundamentals. As for the current code base, Netscape forked. The latest releases have been based on Mozilla (since 6.0, I think).

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Hi Marco. I supported hs students and hs teachers for 3.5 years at a high school that ran netware and windows NT servers, and win 9x on the desktop. Gradually, due to the unending problems, with licensing, software glitches, and security issues we gradually migrated our service infrastructure to linux, though the desktops stayed MS. The desktops were then our only source of problems. I noticed that the only people upset over this were licensed providers of netware and nt services that we had used previous to linux. These parasitic leeches could not understand why someone would go with a "complicated, cli based.." solution. They thought that having the ability to call $150 dollar an hour jerkoffs for bad advice and misconfiguration was some sort of irreparable loss. Every once in a while I'll call these guys to inquire as to whether a team of their service specialists can come out and repair the damage the children do to their windows desktops over the course of a school year; since working with linux has left me out of practice in fixing corrupted registries, viruses and virus software,licensing software and ms office. I've never had them take me up on the offer. I wonder why?

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