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Re: Request for testing - Gradient Rectangle

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Feb 05, 2003
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:25:46PM +0100, Martin Stachon wrote:
> 
> Kat wrote:
<snip>
> The popular Linux distributions, like Mandrake and RedHat are very easy to
> use.
> These days, they will install automatically (like Windows do), if your
> hardware
> is plug'n'play (ACPI and such). But Jim will surely say something on this...
> There are also other alternative free OSes (But with less applications)

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD ... haven't tried any of these, but from what
I've read, these BSDs arent for the beginner (with the possible exception of
FreeBSD, I suppose).

I haven't tried any recent linux distro, however Redhat 6.0 and Caldera
OpenLinux 2.2 installed for me without problems.

I'd already tried talking to Kat about how to get Linux to work for her,
she tried once several years back, had hardware incompatibilites with the Linux
she was installing, and gave up and never tried again. (She thinks that was such
a
insurmoutable problem, she should hear about the nightmares I had with my
computer a
while back ... and that affected my Win98 a lot worse than it ever did
Linux!)

> 
> Not guiding you to piracy, but Win98 installation files are only 112 MB...

Thats not appealing to dialup users, really. (WinXP is around 500MB from what
I've heard, btw. ;)

> 
> > So you guys go ahead and write code that won't run on win95, 
> > everyone else is, including trojan and virus writers. 
> 
> The mainstream OS always gets the most of trojans/virus. If all
> people would be using UNIX, there would be lots of viruses for UNIX
> simply because people are foolish enough to run unknown programs
> as root.

There already are lots of worms for Linux servers. Tho if you stay up to
date you are patched and protected against all but the newborns (a mere
few hours old).

I'd imagine, with OpenSource browsers such as Konqueror, Galeaon, and Mozilla,
the same situation would apply there (patches against the latest viruses).
Same with KMail and other OpenSource e-mail clients, also to news clients,
etc.

Of course, this only workd if one stays up to date against viruses for ALL
open source programs that are used reguarly (or at all). And this approach will
not necessarily work for closed source programs such as the Opera web browser,
to
name one such program for Linux. (Contrary to popular belief, there are many
closed source programs availaible for linux, and many linux users use those
closed source programs.)

> 
>     Martin

jbrown

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