Linked by David Adams on Tue 27th Jul 2010 07:35 UTC, submitted by sjvn
Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who use distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu, there are times we either want to, or feel forced to, add proprietary programs such as Adobe Flash or Skype or the ability to play proprietary audio and video formats such as MP3 or commercial DVDs to your Linux desktop. Here's how to do it.
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RE[5]: Shooting yourself in the foot.
by lemur2 on Thu 29th Jul 2010 13:55
in reply to "RE[4]: Shooting yourself in the foot."
Member since:2007-02-17
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The 1% figure for the desktop is a myth.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Heading towards 5%.
The 1% figure for the desktop is a myth.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Heading towards 5%.
Your right, it is a myth. More like .94%. Do you even bother to read these websites you link?
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You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading. "
Exactly. The oft-quoted 1% statistic is one such highly misleading statistic ... it is in fact a barefaced lie. Linux has far, far greater penetration that that, even if you blinker your view to look at ONLY the desktop.
Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract hobbyists using old low spec computers.
You can't get much more "professional hardware" than these systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_%28computer%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae_%28computer%29
"It is 30% of netbooks (worldwide), apparently, which is a figure that the Windows world desperately doesn't want anyone to know.
What was the marketshare when netbooks first appeared? "
No, now.
What was the marketshare AFTER Windows was released on netbooks.
30%
Sorry, you fail once again.
How so?
" Why on earth would I be interested in installing inferior, closed-source Adobe software instead?
Because your "tinker-toy OS "
The world's most expensive, fastest machines use a tinker-toy OS?
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/technology/39471-nearly-ever...
That would be news to the owners and designers of the world's most expensive, fastest, most reliable machines, I would think.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16284/ten_years_of_ibm_mainframe_lin...
Perhaps you had better ring some of these people up and tell them that they are using a tinker-toy OS.
ROFLMAO.
and apps can not do what Acrobate can? Funny you say inferior, when that pretty much describes 99% of Desktop Linux apps. The only decent ones exist on Windows as well, so as NT_Jerkface points out, no reason to deal with the toy OS. But hey, enjoy your inferior desktop and apps, I am sure you get a lot done.
Pfft.
The world's biggest computational application, which is Google's services, runs on an estimated 1 million Linux servers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform#Server_hardware_and_so...
As for highly complex computing applications:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15202/high_energy_linux_linux_the_la...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC_Computing_Grid
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/lcg/
This is not tinker-toy, by any stretch of the imagination.
The exact opposite, in fact. Linux is the OS of choice when computing gets serious.
Edited 2010-07-29 14:04 UTC
RE[6]: Shooting yourself in the foot.
by ssa2204 on Thu 29th Jul 2010 15:16
in reply to "RE[5]: Shooting yourself in the foot."
Member since:2006-04-22
Besides not reading your own links, you don't bother to read the posts either. We are talking about Desktop OS, to which Linux is an incredible failure, and will remain so for years and years to come until some finally realize what a complete waste of their lives they spent.
FYI, just because an alternative exists, does not mean it is comparable. You spend so much time obsessing about Linux you have no clue to the world outside. The day most of us decide to recommend some of these idiotic toy apps you always seem to think are equitable is the day we lose our jobs. Fools like you actually believe that something such as that wretched piece of shit called Open Office is actually anywhere comparable to Office. Hell, I would not even compare today's OpenOffice with Office 2003, and we are several iterations beyond that now. And this here is why the delusion will always cause failure. Thinking something is equatable is a hell of a lot different than actually knowing, and more importantly UNDERSTANDING why they are not equatable. Don't even get me started on those CAD programs, what a joke.
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The 1% figure for the desktop is a myth.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Heading towards 5%.
Your right, it is a myth. More like .94%. Do you even bother to read these websites you link?
You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading.
Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract hobbyists using old low spec computers.
What was the marketshare when netbooks first appeared? What was the marketshare AFTER Windows was released on netbooks. Sorry, you fail once again.
Why on earth would I be interested in installing inferior, closed-source Adobe software instead?
Because your "tinker-toy OS and apps can not do what Acrobate can? Funny you say inferior, when that pretty much describes 99% of Desktop Linux apps. The only decent ones exist on Windows as well, so as NT_Jerkface points out, no reason to deal with the toy OS. But hey, enjoy your inferior desktop and apps, I am sure you get a lot done.
Edited 2010-07-29 13:12 UTC