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huwnet 
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 Posted: 02 February 2006 at 9:46pm |
Linux is really only for Unix trained sysadmins. When configured well it works so much better than windows but unfortunately most people can't configure it well  . The GUI tools are improving but as they are all developed by seperate linux distributions the development is slowed. The general GUI for normal programs has improved a lot. The screenshots for KDE4 (one available GUI) has been around no where near as long as Windows but has almost as good desktop graphics as Vista.
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Posted: 03 February 2006 at 2:33am |
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It's usually considered good practive to have only what is absolutely needed on a web or proxy server to eliminate as many potential security risks as possible. That includes not running a gui client or server on the machine as they are not essential to the primary function. There's method to the command line madness.
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Posted: 03 February 2006 at 1:04pm |
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I am a huge fan of Microsoft.. (I see you all laughing and sniggering)... however lets face it... Microsoft has made the computer industry what it is today, with virtually every desktop pc in every office running at least some version of Windows and in most cases every server running at least some version of Windows Server OS. I know loads of people complain about their products but they have some awesome stuff (Like SQL Server, Virtual PC etc). I know someone will reply and say "..... well they did not make them from the beginning and someone else had the idea first....etc" but MS has refined them and made them what they are today.
If Linux is as good as people make it out to be then ask yourselves why after +- 15years (1990) Linux is still not the dominant OS.... There have been many in the past like Novell, OS2 etc but none have survived like Microsoft..
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Posted: 03 February 2006 at 5:26pm |
I would be a bigger fan of Microsoft is there software wasn't so ridiculously overpriced. The reason why Linux isn't the leading OS is because: 1) There are to many Linux distributions. If they all colaborated things would be so much better. 2) Commercial apps only run on Windows. Developers and companys however are now starting to develop linux versions of their software  3) Hardware companys are not producing drivers for linux / driver specifications / open source drivers which does not help
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Posted: 03 February 2006 at 5:33pm |
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Yes I do think that the MS products are very over priced.. They say "... its becuase of piracy.. so the "Honest" people have to pay higher prices for the "dishonest " pirates.
I still think even if they did collaborate Linux.. It would still have a long way to go to reach the level of things like Active Directory etc.
Dont get me wrong, I am great fan of Open Source and will use some bits of it where I can (like Firefox apposed to IE) and MySQL, OpenOffice etc. But the defacto standard for everything is Microsoft.
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Posted: 03 February 2006 at 9:03pm |
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I gotta agree with Tegwin there, 80+% of people using computers today wouldn't be doing so without MS. - Applies to Unix/Linus users as well. I remember 10 or 12 years of X-windows wars that never got close to being resolved until MS started gobbling up the market. All those Linux gui's owe their existence to MS, and it's the GUI's that made linux distributable.
Hard to call their software overpriced when a few triillion people have found the shekels to purchase it. High priced, yes. Over priced - ?
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Posted: 04 February 2006 at 2:59am |
 dpyers wrote:
Hard to call their software overpriced when a few triillion people have found the shekels to purchase it. High priced, yes. Over priced - ?
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I guess the question is over priced compared to what? Linux which is free? But no support and hard to use... I am a MS fan as well. I have never even seen a linux box running.
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Posted: 04 February 2006 at 3:44am |
There is not really much to see, just a blinking cursor .
As far as prices go, well sure it is a lot of money to pay $100-250 or so for an operating system (standard) but then again, you usually use if for a few years.
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