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Re: [News] Advice for Escaping Windows in Favour of Linux

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:58:00 +0100
<2168746.uKGVPo82Xf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 26 September 2007 00:35 : \____
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>  wrote
>> on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:16:28 +0100
>> <8165936.lm8zQlpK5L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 25 September 2007 21:58 : \____
>>>
>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>  wrote
>>>> on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:30:29 +0100
>>>> <4568605.onuEIfVgFJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>> How to Quit Windows and cope with Windows Withdrawal Syndrome
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | Now that you have decided to quit Windows for good and
>>>>> | to switch over to a Desktop Linux Distribution, following
>>>>> | these basic steps will help you a lot.  Initially, a basic
>>>>> | knowledge about GNU/Linux is important. What is it really
>>>>> | and how does it differ from Windows?
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=307
>>>> 
>>>> Heh.  A few notes.
>>>> 
>>>> [1] Intel, if I'm not totally mistaken, is on record as
>>>> supporting Linux.  Admittedly, a quick Google coughed
>>>> up only a video and a wireless driver or two, and this
>>>> three-year-old article:
>>>> 
>>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5161041.html
>>>> 
>>>> A search on Intel's website also coughed up their C++ compiler,
>>>> a performance analyzer (VTune(tm)), a math kernel library
>>>> (not sure if that's kernel as in Linux, kernel as in core,
>>>> or kernel as in kerning transformations), a Fortran compiler,
>>>> a threading library, and a whole lot of other stuff -- 12900
>>>> in all, if the count's accurate.
>>>> 
>>>> Kudos to Intel.
>>>> 
>>>> [2] Drafts aren't hard on Linux, even if one is using gedit.
>>>> CUPS is also very capable, if one wants to print them later.
>>>> 
>>>> [3] I'm not sure I like the notion of destroying Windows
>>>> install CDs (I'm a pack rat; I admit it :-) )...the
>>>> temptation is there, admittedly, but they'll also grow
>>>> stale anyway.  I have some Win95 stuff flying about, and
>>>> even older Win3.1 installation packs.  Do I use them?  No.
>>>> Still, for those of a certain mindset, it's probably best
>>>> to put them out of reach, and if that involves destroying
>>>> them, so be it.
>>>
>>> I suppose the following is out of the question then:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOuwXTOHy4
>> 
>> That was absolutely pathetic.  All it did was tip over. :-)
>> Proof once again that Linux is very robust, even when
>> hit with a shotgun.  (Or a lawsuit.)
>
> Watch Xandrosoft GNU/Linux:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8TjLIYxP1A
>
> The shooting begins a few minutes after the stuff. Well overboard.

Now we're talking.  :-)  Nice shotgun (generally my
favorite weapon in DOOM, Unreal, Quake, Nexuiz, ...).

>
>> This one might be more interesting.
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno
>> 
>> Easy installation guaranteed!  Too bad the media doesn't
>> survive the installation process.
>> 
>>>
>>> Or one of these assorted BSD 'rituals' for SCO...
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unix+sco&search=Search
>>>
>>> Skip the first (although it's funny too and I mentioned it in BN.com last
>>> year).
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytEUWz4EQQ
>> 
>> is ... interesting. :-)
>> 
>> The next three apparently are various attempts to exorcise SCO:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhtjCWwSqmU
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLDLdl4ytoY
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3bpCh4kTk
>> 
>> The second one is the longest.  Dunno if they worked or not;
>> the courts are arguably more effective.  :-)
>
> Haha. I couldn't manage to find Judge Kimball among those in this group.
>
>>>> [4] "Back up and format" is an interesting requirement,
>>>> but how does one restore later on?  The article could be
>>>> clearer on this.  The good news: anyone familiar with DVD
>>>> or CD burning software should be able to burn a DVD or CD
>>>> that Linux can read, and I would be surprised if Linux
>>>> can't read the Microsoft extensions (Joliet is the only
>>>> one I'm somewhat familiar with).  Or one can use ancient
>>>> 1.44 MB floppies, or even tape drives, in a pinch.
>>>> 
>>>> [5] As usual, the author(s) confuse Linux, the kernel, with
>>>> an arbitrary Linux-based distribution.  *shrug*
>>>> 
>>>> [6] There is no mention of how to avoid Windows in
>>>> new equipment, but that's probably beyond the scope of
>>>> the article anyway.  One of Microsoft's more insidious
>>>> "innovations", after all, is the bundling of Windows
>>>> on prepackaged PCs.  Even if one later wipes Windows,
>>>> Microsoft still gets paid.
>>>> 
>>>> (lucky bastards :-) )
>>>
>>> Bell used to have similar schemes going on. That's how you
>>> build a monopolistic framework and a cash machine. If the
>>> government does not intervene, something
>>> is rotten (or someone is paid).
>>>
>> 
>> Microsoft "innovation" at its best.
>
> Innovative strategies. Buy our your competition, hire companies
> to sue your competitors, deploy lobbyists in Washington, start
> smear campaigns, change the US patent system, change DRM
> circumvention laws around the world, sign deals with opponents
> in order to have them implement your technology, bribe votes to
> get support, have PR agents send out letters on behalf of dead people...
>

Hm.  With all of this going on, where do they find time to
actually develop Vista?

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