2 posts tagged “open source”
This poor guy went to jail. This is not funny, I have had Windows do this to me before. I suggest everyone who reads this should go to www.puppylinux.org and and download an open source copy of PUPPY LINUX right now. ( Or UBUNTU if you prefer, Puppy is just my personal choice for simple and quick LIVE CD usage).
Sorry, but it just seems unfair that people don't know that most Linux distributions will read Microsoft files, and can rescue most if not all data on most computers (except in some cases of hardware failure.) But even if your hard drive fails, if you keep backups of important data on a USB drive, you can still operate your computer without the hard drive- IF- you run a Linux LIVE CD in it. Try doing THAT in VISTA!
Windows has a long history of leaving me in the lurch when I need it most, so I learned not to trust it for business that was critical. Most Linux distros come in a Live CD configuration, just D'load it, burn the ISO, and keep it nearby. Someday, you WILL need it.
Poor guy, he sure did...
I have been reading a truly thoughtful rebuttal to the latest media smear campaigns against Linux, and I just have to laugh. What do these big blowhards and naysayers think of the average man? They think we are STUPID and DUMB beyond belief!
The Windows supported media just cant wrap their little punkin' sized heads around the concept that some folks would GLADLY give up some simplicity for more freedom of use. It's the SAME argument every time...""desktop users don't want, need, or KNOW how to do without ADOBE Products, MICROSOFT Products, or APPLE Products, and they couldn't possibly know how to modify or make a computer system usable for their needs without them". Uh, BULLSH*T!
You stupid, stupid men. Your salaries are paid by these companies in advertising revenues so "OF COURSE" you think they rule the computer world. But there is a big and growing cross section of the computer using world that has branched off of your country club mentality of computer usage.
Myself, I have been tinkering with computers since the TI994a, Sinclair Timex, and TRS-80s came out in the late seventies and early eighties. I had the pleasure of using many fine IBM products through the years, as well as Apple IIes and Macintoshes. I have been a happy "desktop compter user" before any of the current crop of GUI enabled machines were even released. I had a copy of Windows 1.0 before most of these "computer writers" were BORN.
And I just like Linux. I know Windows, I make a living supporting people who use Windows, and I have made a nice living for years helping others figure out how to fix their crippled, broken, oudated or plain badly conceived machines. Tech support is what this fuss is all about. Most people have a finite limit to their knowledge of any particular system. MAny millions of dollars have been made by keeping you in the dark, using proprietary OS'es that NEED high priests and mumbo pocus. Linux is different than that, and a response to that broken greedy system.
Linux just happens to be a better support system for most people. You are FREELY given the knowledge to learn ALL parts of the OS. And that's what SCARES the bejesus out of companies like, well, you know. You learn to fix what you need to fix. Most people just haven't tried it yet. Maybe today is the day for you...
When the automobile came in wide usage, there were still MANY horses and carriages on the road. Folks CONSTANTLY complained about the cars scareing the horses. Innovation is like that. The old systems never want to give way to the new, or better, systems. SO WHAT!
In Paris during the 1860's the number one cause of deaths for gentlemen 30 to 40 was boiler explosions,,,between their legs! It was from steam powered automobiles. That didn't stop automobile technological advances, and it didn't even end up that steam was that practical a method of locomotion for automobiles after all! Who knew?
I posit that years from now, most people will be using a Linux or open source type of operating system on their computing device, of whatever type. It will win in the end, and not because I say so, but because it's more flexible. And viruses and worms are slowly crippling the "BIG MEDIA FAVORITE" operating system. If virus "protection" companies had their way, well, we would ALL be using their services ALL DAY LONG. Get smart, and get out of that racket. If you are going to use a computer, you need to get an operating system that is stronger and more clever than that!
Corporate entities have ALWAYS tried to control the common mans work, thinking and leisure. But we just outsmart them, time and time again.
If you want to use Windows, rock on. But if you are ready to get more for your money, and less control from above, try Linux. In fact try ALL the great Linuxes out there. Enjoy your freedom.
