EVE General Discussion

Please, stop posting, you're an ignorant...

When a linux distro like Fedora (or that hammered **** Ubuntu) is working fine there is no real problem for the end user. however it is when it breaks, and it breaks a little too often on software update. linux is too quick to make breaking changes.

Err dude, I'm not a hater, I work with Linux (still do) because I actually work and develop for Linux, I don't hate Microsoft, they're a business and make business decisions. What I don't like is to call 'features' like if they were the inventors of them when other OS'es had them way before and/or where they were based (even from MacOS). The only inovation microsoft did probably in the last 10 years was .Net

I'm pragmatic as a developer that I am, the best tool for the best task at hand, if a secretary that never heard of linux and worked with windows for years comes to work, hell giver windows, the point is productivity. If it always worked with MacOS so be it. etc etc.

You should probably try the stuff properly before making assumptions (assumption is the mother of all F*ck ups), There are versions, there are beta/alpha on the edge versions that are picky on updates and do require often updates, when there are LTS vesions where mainly security updates are done, fedora works the same way as ubuntu and as debian too, basically, you choose to play with fire, you're to blame if you get burned.

Now that we set aside the updates argument, let's talk about quality, I have 3 workstations at work and 1 laptop with linux, plus 2 desk PC's home and 1 mac book. I have Ubuntu and debian on them, they were installed like 3 years ago, been doing dist upgrades (major versions) ever since, haven't formatted any of them, had 0 issues with updates even on major version upgrades. I have no need to defrag my disk ever, nor reinstall the OS because the registry got so cluttered it hurts, and the average uptime of my PC's (except the laptops) is about 2 months, with my home server at:

21:10:13 up 221 days, 2:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

You lost 10 years of Linux development it seems.

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You make assumptions not only on Linux but on me too, well, It's a pitty Microsoft made you the ass you actually sound like and not look like.....

Shall I make the PC do some random number generator loop to increase the load to make you more happy ? ...

I can't wait to see some actually smart people making Linux something more intuitive and less "pro nerd", if gaming industry follows like many professional programs already do (full operational and NO BUGS) I'd really love to get rid of crapwindows, because this is exactly what windows platform has become, entire crap.

If this thing goes really on my next software platform will be linux without a doubt, to hell with crapwindows, I don't use it for anything else than be able to use external programs all working perfectly under linux, if Eve follows fair enough if it doesn't well, my professional stuff goes 1st .

how to print a paper in GNU Slash Linux: http://www.amazon.com/CUPS-Common-Printing-System-White/dp/0672321963/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199729332&sr=8-1

it's all in those 648 pages

i just did the standard install of ubuntu.. then i wanted to put mythtv on it.. even the bleeding edge .deb repositories had versions of PAM that were lower than what was required... the newest available package was pam .77, pam >= .79 was required, pam .99 was current stable at the time.

if you think all distros are made equal then you don't know as much about linux as you think you know.




yes.. lets complain about problems that exist in older versions of windows that don't exist in modern versions of them, or are trivium.

I haven't had issues with registry clutter since windows 9x

you don't have to defrag.. it just helps performance. technically ext2 could be helped by defragging - it just isn't helped as much. simple design differences. I have freeware installed that intelligently online defrags my drives - stuff read more gets moved to the faster part of spinning drives. naturally my SSDs have no defrag enabled.




oh look.. uptime epeening! i feel like it's Y2K all over again. sorry i don't have any systems i can e-peen about the uptimes of since I am constantly installing fresh builds of the operating system (work), or powering them down because i don't need them on (home).

i did it all the time on fedora.. unless they changed that in recent versions




that's a programmers reference - basically "how to write a printer driver"

driver design references for windows are just as big.

i never had problems getting my printers working on linux that couldn't be solved in 10 minutes.

now to be fair those printers "just worked" on Windows and OS/X

don't spoil it damn it