Favorite OS?

[Firaeon]

Re: Favorite OS?

Oh no!

It's WindoZed! He's here to throw lawsuits at us, and he brought all of his most faithful fanboys!


It's Windooze!


Vista Vepulsa!


Norton!

Luckily, the Linux Users can kick their ass.


(from right to left) Yellow Dog Ranger, Fedora Ranger, Debian Ranger, Gentoo Ranger, Hard Hat Ranger, and Knoppix Ranger!

Let the fights begin!!!

[Feba]

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Firaeon, I love you.

[Akashimo]

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Omg xD
That so can not be topped by anything else.

[Mhurron]

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I wonder how much system resources that's taking up when you're working.

Exactly how do you think Unix and Unix like OS's keep the system maintained and protected?

[Feba]

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Exactly how do you think Unix and Unix like OS's keep the system maintained and protected?

How many desktop unix likes do you know that run antivirus and defrag *at all*?

The only time I've read of anyone running an antivirus on *nix is running servers, and that was to protect the end users on Windows, not the server itself.

[Mhurron]

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How many desktop unix likes do you know that run ... defrag *at all*?

Every last one of them. Volume optimization is included in every decent Unix FS. You never see it because its a process that occurs in kernel space and you can not stop it.

Run a recent Red Hat distro? Them and increasingly others have SELinux extensions enabled by default until the user turns it off when they realize weird problems they are having are caused by it. SELinux checks every last function that occurs. Not process, function. Every read, every write, every directory listing, everything. It checks against it's little db of MAC permissions to see if you're allowed to do that.

Vista's background processes don't add any more then Linux's

[Firaeon]

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Exactly how do you think Unix and Unix like OS's keep the system maintained and protected?

Well I know on MY Linux, I don't even have an anti-virus application.

[Feba]

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Am I the only one that finds it interesting that the poll has over ten times it's market share in love-ed-ness? And Vista about five times that? With XP nearly halved?

[hongman]

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Hey I just remembered 1 very big reason why I even considered Linux for my desktop at home.

It was being able to use the transparency and other cool gadgets on CPU/Mem useage etc that caught my eye. Flux...or something it was called.

I ran Knoppix off CD and later installed Debian. Its all coming back to me now!

[Feba]

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Flux...or something it was called.

Fluxbox is one of the window managers, although I'm pretty sure it was one of the lighter weight ones. I doubt it did the transparency and stuff itself.

If you want cool desktop effects, try out Compiz/Beryl (Compiz Fusion should be out soon, the remerger of compiz and beryl), I'd take pictures of it, but I have a 3D game open, an 3D games and desktop effects just don't get along.

[hongman]

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Fluxbox was it. Bang on the money there.

Hate to disagree with you though, especially as you are infinately more knowledgeable on this subject than I am, but it did support transparency.

I had an install of it on a work box when I was a mere apprentice, SS in link - warning, has a rather fine lady as background that some prude typees may find unsuitable for kids under...like 1.

http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?i...nshot2ht5.png][IMG]http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3286/screenshot2ht5.th.png

EDIT: Now you're gonna tell me I had something else installed and make me look like an idiot becuase I had forgotten it :p

[Mhurron]

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Fluxbox does support transparency (as do many other things, E and aterm among them) and has done for quite some time.

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom....ne_fluxbox.jpg
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom....a_fluxbox3.jpg

[Feba]

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I said I doubt, not that it didn't :p

I think that's the WM DSL uses, so I'm surprised it does handle transparency, although I suppose having it built into the window manager makes it lighter on system resources.

Those pictures are pretty sexy looking though, I might have to try that out on my next system, if I don't use KDE.

EDIT: Now you're gonna tell me I had something else installed and make me look like an idiot becuase I had forgotten it :p

nah, like I said, I doubt even feba makes mistakes. Rarely, but he does.


...like telling people I make mistakes.

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

You can use fluxbox with KDE.

[Feba]

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Mhurron, that post would've made me really excited, if I hadn't just found THE WORLD'S BIGGEST WAFFLE FRY.

I know it's off topic, but goddamn, this lunch just got awesome.