Homeland Security Warning

[irishmike]

@Piru

Well, I have used Linux and I do think it is a great OS, albeit I have trouble with those who say that it is ready for the desktop, because I do not feel that it is that far along yet, but given time and development, it might get there.  The main problem I see with adoption of Linux to the Desktop is that the Linux community can not or perhaps more accurately, will not agree upon any standards.  Until this can be worked out, Linux is not viable as a desktop OS.  Though many servers are happily running it fine!

My choice (since that seemed to be called into question) is actually FreeBSD and Mac OS X.  FreeBSD on Intel for servers and Mac OS X for the desktop.

While I think the Amiga is a great platform as well, I think it's future is also going to be based on some *NIX underpinnings.  Heck, we could right now write a GUI that acted and felt like our Amiga (most likely looking like OS 3.9 mostly) and put our GUI ontop of FreeBSD which is modified for our purposes (eg Darwin) and we have a modern AmigaOS.  This is my grand vision for this beloved platform... combine that with high end hardware and a good base of developers and you have a MS killer.  

I feel that MS is the Communist party, they are the ones that feed propaganda to further their cause.  They to me, represent all that is unholy and wrong in the world.  That is purely my own opinion!  Heck, if Open Office would become Macintosh (Mac OS X) native, I would dump MS Office now.  That is the ONLY arguement for the Linux desktop (again speaking in my own opinion).

Generally, I only deal with MS products where I have to.

[orange]

The only problem I see on Linux are the damn fonts with BCI problem. It took me weeks to get non-anti-aliased fonts in KDE, and I still cant get them in OpenOffice..  :cry:

[rdolores]

*NIX underpinnings, OS3.9 mostly... Sounds like Amithlon.

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While I think the Amiga is a great platform as well, I think it's future is also going to be based on some *NIX underpinnings. Heck, we could right now write a GUI that acted and felt like our Amiga (most likely looking like OS 3.9 mostly) and put our GUI ontop of FreeBSD which is modified for our purposes (eg Darwin) and we have a modern AmigaOS. This is my grand vision for this beloved platform... combine that with high end hardware and a good base of developers and you have a MS killer.

[maffoo]

irishmike wrote:
Heck, if Open Office would become Macintosh (Mac OS X) native, I would dump MS Office now.

Have you tried NeoOffice?

[dammy]

I bit the bullet and updated, and my XP box is now more stable then it was prior.  Here I thought it was the CPU going bad...

Dammy

[irishmike]

@mafoo

Neo Office is very slow due to the front end being Java based (for me it was PAINFULLY slow) and while it worked, it is NOT native.  It has been a while since I tried it, but IIRC, it was still using the 1.1 OpenOffice code, not the 2.0. EDIT:  Just looked at NeoOffice.org and I must state that they have changed this, the 2.0 code is in Alpha :-)


Also, OpenOffice.org recently stated that they would no longer be backing the NeoOffice pony and that they were once again looking for developers to work on OO for Macintosh natively.  (If I was a better programmer, I'd work on it, but I don't think that they want a little bit more than "hello world" experienced person :-))

check out this link

[blobrana]

Hum,
Microsoft’s August 8 security patch, MS06-042 update, has a nasty habit of causing Internet Explorer to crash.
The problem affects Internet Exploder 6 with Service Pack 1 on Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems. If a user looks at a version 1.1 of HTTP alongside compression, the browser will crash.

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