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the boss 
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Posted: 28 January 2006 at 2:49pm |
ok so i had been trying to setup linux+squid proxy for my friend internet cafe. So i had been working with a few distro of linux and squid and having first hand experience of why open source sucks...
talk about user unfriendly OS.. even to operate something like Knoppix.. u got to know sh*t loads of thing.. many basic tasks are not as easy as windows.. now we know why MS rules the consumer OS!!
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Posted: 28 January 2006 at 3:36pm |
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Linux and Squid are not difficult to setup. If you had searched you probably could have downloaded a GUI like something you would use in Windows.
What Linux Distributions did you try?
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Posted: 29 January 2006 at 12:00am |
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Linux is terse. The evidence is in just about all Linux documentation where you read, "At the shell prompt..."
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Posted: 29 January 2006 at 8:25am |
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The thing about Linux is the way it is made. Apple and Microsoft make everything that comes with an operating system. In Linux X comes from x.org and the office suite comes from open office etc.
Some of the leading distros have GUI configs now (SuSe has Yast and Mandrake has drake, while fedora is getting there with its system-config)
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Posted: 29 January 2006 at 4:55pm |
Linux looks like a good intended but poorly engineered russian product..only its creators know the operation
this is from wikipedia
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More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size, a study of Red Hat Linux 7.1, found that this particular distribution contained 30 million source lines of code (SLOC). The Linux kernel contained 2.4 million lines of code, or 8% of the total. Using the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the study estimated that this distribution required about eight thousand person-years of development time. Had all this software been developed by conventional proprietary means, it would have cost 1.08 billion dollars (year 2000 dollars) to develop in the United States. Slightly over half of the code in that distribution was licensed under the GPL.
In a later study, Counting potatoes: the size of Debian 2.2, the same analysis was performed for Debian GNU/Linux version 2.2. This distribution contained over fifty-five million source lines of code, and the study estimated that it would have cost 1.9 billion dollars (year 2000 dollars) to develop by conventional proprietary means.
The source code for the Linux kernel used to be maintained using the software application called BitKeeper but, partly because a license dispute, it is now maintained via Git, the new directory content manager created by Linus Torvalds himself.
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Windows XP has 40Million lines of code and is still much better than any linsuxs
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Posted: 30 January 2006 at 5:04pm |
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Well that is only if you believe the article.
Also 2.4 kernel is seriously outdated
If you don't like Linux why not look into FreeBSD. FreeBSD it really only for advanced users as it is almost all command line however it is extremely stable.
Also Solaris is free now!
Edited by huwnet - 30 January 2006 at 5:11pm
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Posted: 30 January 2006 at 5:38pm |
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But seriously, unless you setup a system once using command line for some processing why would you want to do that. An everyday system should have a simple gui and should not need to be operated using command line.
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Posted: 02 February 2006 at 8:27pm |
well im trying to setup squid for caching.. and every time.. something doesnt work.. and finally when it works.. after paying sh*t load of $$$ to a linux pro and a poweredge server.. just for the sake of finding out wether it is all that worthed..its slow and dissapointing.. heck isa 2004 running off a pentium 4 512MB RAM.. gave better performance.. soo much for linux...
i guess.. unless you are not a pro knowing linux shell really hardcore inside out.. u are not goin to be comfortable with it..
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