Re: not genuine Windows

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:10:54 +0000, Leythos wrote:

In article <pan.2006.08.16.03.44.22.28537@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:57:01 +0000, Leythos wrote:

In article <ebtql65hnn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nostop@xxxxxxxxxx says...
More FUD from Fanboy. Tell us what CPUs Windoze runs on and compare
that with Linux. "Best desktop OS" my ass. You sure do live a
sheltered life, don't you? Totally clueless about what's out there
now.

You remind me of another it10t that was banned from these groups
under a specific NIC, in fact you could be his twin.

If you want to see for yourself, take Mandrake, Suse, Fedora, and
Windows XP, put 4 computers side by side, same hardware/firmware on
each, make sure that you have a good video card for games/cad, a big
drive, a nice GB eithernet adapter, a Video Capture device, a Color
Laser Printer, a nice sound card, and 2GB RAM. Now start your
install, side by side, and then start testing applications with the
same type of documents - you can even export your Word documents to
RTF and your Power Point slides to PDF.....

Funny thing is that you'll have the XP box and MS Office installed
with all patches before Fedora even finishes updating from yum.....
The others are a crapshoot as to how long they will take, but in
testing, over a couple different instances, it takes longer to
load/setup/patch the three Linux distros than the XP + Office 2003 +
Upates.

Have you ever actually *installed* Fedora? I'd like to see you try to
install 100 commercial applications under Windows before I could
install 2,000 under Fedora.

However it's not about speed of installation. In designing Windows,
Microsoft sacrificed long-term stability and security for an immediate
flattening of the learning curve. Windows *is* easier up front, but you
pay down the road in maintenance time and lessened security. Linux
takes more work to get set up but once you have it configured it'll sit
there for years with very little maintenance.

Yes, have it running on 3 workstations - and if you notice, I said +
Updates. Why can't you comprehend all of what is written?

I comprehend fine. You just don't know as much as you think you do about
Linux. See my note at the bottom about Fedora being a development
distribution.

I clearly was able to install XP Prof, MS Office Prof, and all service
packs from the net in much less time than it took to complete the same
on any of the Fedora boxes (or Mandrake/Suse either).

Then your comparison is strongly biased in some way. I just installed
Debian-based Ubuntu on another HD. It took 30 minutes and included about a
thousand popular applications and utilities, including OpenOffice.
Updating all those applications was a single command: "sudo apt-get
update". The updates took about 15 minutes.

Before that I was playing with Novell's SLED, which is based on SuSE. It
comes with OpenOffice and many other office tools bundled in. Installation
took about an hour including grabbing the latest security updates.

The killer was the udpates, they took hours to pull down.

I've seen individual Windows updates that were larger than the Linux
kernel and core utilities. You were probably updating all the applications
that come with Fedora but not Windows.

Updates are a weekly thing on Fedora, at least if you check.

Of course. Fedora is a testing distribution designed to try new ideas and
work the bugs out of bleeding-edge code. You get a lot of updates when you
use a development distro. If you want less updating then you need to use a
distribution designed for stability rather than to test code. That would
be Debian, Slackware, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Novell's new
SLED, among others.

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