Microsoft Finally Takes Notice of Linux

Post by **Rooster** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:47 am

And in true MS fashion does not consider Open Source to be better.
Does not rewrite core operating system to eliminate their bloated architecture.

But does now consider Linux a threat
Sooooooo..........
What does Microsoft do?

Sues the major Linux distro companies for 253 copywrite infringements
Typical!!!
"If its a threat then beat it with a big stick"

Army of One · Post by **Army of One** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:24 am

I think I have to root for Linux on this, Microsoft has way too much of a monopoly in the OS business...

DJ Wings · Post by **DJ Wings** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:19 am

Links to Digg:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Torvalds_tel ... or_shut_up
http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_dumb_doe ... ink_we_are
http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Why_Behi ... Patent_FUD

NUTS! · Post by **NUTS!** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:00 am

Yes I found that rather amusing.

After tooling around in Vista for a few days I was impressed with the eye candy and ease of use. But if your not running a dual core with at least 2GB of ram your gona be slow comparativly. It loads a ton of stuff at start up. Nice if your doing office work, not so much if your doing stuff that needs the memory or cpu's. Would not recommend getting Vista for an older computer.

Bloop? · Post by **Bloop?** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:25 am

Tried dual booting me intel mac with vista ... have you not noticed that vista sometimes hogs ful cpu usage, when it's not doing anything in particular

not convinced by vista, even if it does have cool seethrough bars at the tops of windows

DJ Wings · Post by **DJ Wings** » Sat May 19, 2007 12:20 pm

Bloop? wrote:it does have cool seethrough bars at the tops of windows

You can get a theme like that for Beryl, which is a LOT less CPU-intensive (3D-acelerated).

blitzer · Post by **blitzer** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:58 pm

"If its a threat then beat it with a big stick"

Tried that once but bloop still comes back!

Anyways, I would like to try linux, yet I'm not computer techy...although I'm not a complete dult with it...

DJ Wings · Post by **DJ Wings** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:05 pm

Ubuntu = easiest install. I've got a chooser here.

niKo · Post by **niKo** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:11 pm

Linux better not lose anything on this. It's just making Windows look even worse than it is... which isn't great at all.

+niko.

DJ Wings · Post by **DJ Wings** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:20 pm

NUTS! wrote:Would not recommend getting Vista for an older computer.

Greenpeace went after Microsoft for that... Vista makes old computers obsolete, and therefore, junk that ruins the environment. That's why I'm keeping my laptop around at least another few months with a more snappy OS- the uberfast SAM Linux- installed. Light on resources, heavy on eye-candy (Mac OS-like launcher, both 3D desktops as installed options, transparent windows via Xfwm...)

Microsoft Finally Takes Notice of Linux

Microsoft Finally Takes Notice of Linux

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