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yeah, open source is good.  im just too lazy to get it.  are windows apps compatible w/ it?  i dont think ive seen photoshop for linux.  in that case, its win2k for me.  tho its good for DB and server stuff

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Using packages like Wine, WineX, Crossover Office, you can run many Windows apps under Linux, but there's no guarantee. I believe I've seen photoshop being run in Wine, though...

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Didn't prompt you for a password?
hmmm, i just logged into it...username is "whitneyz" not sure i have about 100 shell accounts though...if you're interested ;)

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No i mean that after i enter the user name it will ask for a password and will not let me type it in. The cursor does not blink.

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Well damn!

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Quote: from OzX at 10:55 pm on May 30, 2003

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Because you'll be 1337 if you do.  And you'll get to be a part of the community.  (Of pasty white nerds living in their parents' garages).  And you'll get to be "cool" and replace the S in Microsoft with a dollar sign.  Because you're "cool."  And Micro$oft obviously isn't.

I'm sorry.  Well, back to Slashdot I go. :D

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You seem to have it about down to the letter.   /.  nerds ahoy.

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>what is linux?

instead of asking what is linux you should know what it isn't. it isn't an operating system that the average home user should use today to take care of every day tasks such as email, web browsing, chatting, word processing. windows os is perfectly fine for this type of work.  it isn't an os which should be used if you are into playing games - anyone happen to catch the VGA on SpikeTV the other night - because many games made for windows is not compatible with linux. yes some may argue that Wine Project is changing all this but still if you think about it realistically game companies are making games and converting games from game systems to the pc mainly for msft windows and not linux.  linux is not an OS to be used if you wish to save time NOT money.  i say time because with linux you have to put in some work to update packages and install security updates and what not especially the kernel.  as for windows you just run msft update once a week, month, whatever and voila your systems up to date with linux it is a much more enduring process where your bound to at some time lose your marbles.  

now on to what linux is.  linux is an os which should be used for the security conscious.  linux is for those who wish to save money not time.  linux is great for those computer science majors or programmers. i find that gnu c/c++ gives you more power over the programs you write then do msft vc++ and other design software for windows.  linux is an os which should be used if you want to run a server of any kind: web, ftp, gopher, file, etc..

security vs ease of use. you decide.

(Edited by linuxdaemon at 4:27 pm on Dec. 9, 2003)

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Never heard of it!!! Where could i take a look? ;)

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sorry about not answering sooner,  i forgot that i was in this thread.. heh.

im using the one off http://ls-ots.cjb.net/   its rather user friendly (ed- my parents can handle it) compared to some of the other releases ive used.

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I think Vitamin was being sarcastic...

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perhaps,  but sarcasm doesnt really translate well over the net..    We could always pull out sarcasm tags..

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(hope you don't need tags for that one ;) )

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yeah, open source is good.  im just too lazy to get it.  are windows apps compatible w/ it?  i dont think ive seen photoshop for linux.  in that case, its win2k for me.  tho its good for DB and server stuff

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well lindows os is a good linux distro to run windows apps, but wine is available for all distros to emulate windows.  oh and MS is big brother to whoever who said that

www.linuxiso.org    - to learn about the many different distros
www.linux.org        -duh!
www.google.com/linux       - to search things that are related to linux

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