Its been a civilized discussion without the use of the word troll or fanboi, if you need any help with Linux let me know and I'll gladly provide some SSH help.
Sales charts it costs 1500$ to look at the actual info. haha. The only other info I could find was a forum post on a tablet pc website, not really credible. I really wanted a free steam game, but it seems that you are correct in saying that the word niche was used by me first, however, its not...
You might try something like Mythbuntu, I would also check to see if the cable card hardware you purchased is compatible before delving into trying to get it to work. I currently have a capture card that I can plug any composite or S-video device into, I know its not HD but that doesn't really...
Vendor lock-in comes into play when the solution you are currently using no longer meets your needs. Its perfectly fine that your companies current setup works for you.
Awesome, so use non microsoft secondary domain controllers, storage servers, web servers, backup servers...etc...
Oh I agree with you there it is definitely all about the cloud and ad revenue, the android marketplace is integrated into Android x86, I don't think it would be hard for them to integrate the market place with a package manager backend to deliver not web based apps that only desktop users could...
All I can say is that the world of computing is changing, more and more people are migrating away from vendor lock-in, you have to start somewhere. Heatlesssuns company has invested quite a lot into their setup, they have bought into it and will continue to cause Microsoft has their balls in a...
You are doing fine there buddy, the Swiss have their needs met by Linux, you have your needs met by your onenote operating system, I have my needs met by Linuxmint 8. Personally I hate writing with a pen/pencil/stylus, typing on ergonomic keyboards and touchscreen keyboards. Sharepoint is...
All good points, on a side note though there is no way to accurately tell how many desktop installations of Linux there actually is, its estimated at 1% but no way to prove that. Microsoft is wasting a lot of money on their INK project when in reality the embedded portables is where the market...
TCO of Linux is generally less expensive, in most cases you setup a machine and it stays the same way for years until hardware failure, don't really have the slowly degrading performance that windows seems to have. From an windows admins perspective you buy a new server for every instance of...
They are in what I would call beta testing, alpha tested the dual boot, moving on to beta, at some point mass roll out might be on the table if their needs are met.
This feature seems to be a niche market anyway as tablets aren't really that must have of a platform, as much as I hate Apples faggotry the ipad is the closest thing that resembles a tablet that people seem to actually want. If I recall the HP tablet deal that MS was working on with them got...
Good point, however I think the main point here is that they don't have to buy new systems and can continue to use there old ones replacing hardware as it goes bad. Bye bye Windows XP RIP, enjoy your end of life.
Office is a big bloaty joke that most people use a very small portion of, Photoshop is nice but the eventual outcome of an image can be done the same with The gimp(I am co owner of a media company dealing with print and graphics and my business partner uses cs4), Autocad is an exception, but I'm...
Cool I have heard good things about onenote, onenote 2007 runs fine under Linux, I'm sure it won't be long before 2010 is up and running after its released. U mad? haha, also do remember that there is more than likely something that does an adequate job natively. The system requirements for...
Nice sentence, some coherence in your statements would be nice, first you are talking about high end desktop computing now you are talking about ease of use? U mad?
I hope you are not confusing "not available" with "I don't know how to do it". I have been using Linux on my desktop for almost 10 years now, I have not ran into anything that I couldn't do. I have done everything from video editing to music creation to 3d model rendering. Not sure what you mean...
I worked for a company that dealt mainly with HPUX, AIX and Solaris, I walked in with no working knowledge of any of the systems, with a little bit of a learning curve I was able to pick up the systems with little effort. Sure things are different but they are relatively the same, this helped a lot.
I know when I was growing up, every school I went to used Apple computers, that said even then Apples market share was smaller than it is today. So what of the students that did not have PC's of any kind in their home? I guess all of those students were fucked. At k-12 level people aren't set in...
With Linuxmint it uses dkms upon install it installs the NVIDIA module/glx and I would presume the ATI (frglx) as well. I think if I remember correctly Intel's drivers are opensource and can be distributed with Linux distributions. Not that sound issues aren't possible I personally haven't had a...
Desktop Linux will happen at some point, it will be highly integrated and there will be an application store where people can buy softwares. It won't come in the form of what we have today though, something more a long the lines of Android x86. For now at home I use Linuxmint 8, its very nice to...
Linux pluses
1. uptime is great
2. scripting things is easy and productive
3. great load balancing and resource usage
4. gnome's interface is not that bad
5. being able to scroll anything with out having to click focus
6. 2 copy and paste functions(select copy and paste and select then...
Exactly, when I started with Redhat 6.2 back in 98 or 99 I was shocked but it held my attention(read aspergers), like dos did when I was 12. That said, it is indeed a pain in the ass to even use the gui in windows, IE mouse over a window in the background and scroll with the mouse wheel, or do...
Oh BTW ya'll hear steam's comin to linux? Maybe that will bring more game devels to the Linux platform and get rid of the notion that Linux users are bums that don't pay for anything. Steam is the right kind of DRM. This phoronix guy has been talking about steam on Linux the last couple of...
I for one believe that Linux is a great server platform and I don't want the publics filthy hands all over desktop Linux, but I'm sure its inevitable. Ubuntu is okay but I find it unpolished and buggy every time I have used it, on the other hand, Linuxmint is a great desktop distribution. I even...