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RE[10]: Not my thing on a desktop
by lemur2 on Fri 3rd Jun 2011 12:00
in reply to "RE[9]: Not my thing on a desktop"
Lunix. Serious business.
Well, over 90% of these people with their worlds-most-powerful-and-expensive machines apparently think so:
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/36/osfam
These people in charge of some of the most advanced and expensive equipment in the world certainly seem to think so too:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/09/large-hadron-collider-...
http://www.novell.com/promo/suse/ibm-watson.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081021/...
http://www.linuxhpc.org/pages.php?page=Hardware_Vendors
As I said ... the choice is yours. It is up to you what you do, and what you CAN do, what you are allowed to do, what you are fully licensed to do, with your GNU/Linux machine.
Edited 2011-06-03 12:04 UTC




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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbMnKpB3Tc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzGXIgs9nMs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfRpmqKRbs&feature=related
Lunix. Serious business. I mean what can Windows do that Lunix can't? Can you tell me? Can you?
We should do moar of that cool Lunix videos and also emphasize Lunix's strengths even moar.
There are still many people enslaved by proprietary operating systems and we shall do our best to liberate them and to convert them to the wonderful world of Free and Libre Open Source Software and GNU/Lunix. Think moar of our brothers and sisters still living in slavery.
We should highlight that free countries like China, North Coreea and Cuba put a big emphasis un GNU/Lunix.
We should tell folks that Lunix is:
1. powerful - that's nothing in the world you can't accomplish by writing a quick BASH script
2. rock solid - has anyone evar seen a Lunix program crashing? well anyway, even if a Lunix program crashes, it doesn't crash moar often than a few times a day; in fact Lunix has a powerful mechanism to protect users: if a program crashes a few times, you aren't able to start that bad program again even if you reboot often
3. high uptime - Lunix users never have to reboot. ACPI problems prevent that...use the power-strip after a crash or shutdown.
4. simple to use - even grandma's grandma could have been using Lunix if Lunix was available during her lifetime
5. doesn't have viruses - Lunix doesn't get viruses because they are pre-installed and dynamically create themselves.
6. secure by default - don't believe those haters who affirm they pwned lots of Lunix boxes, those pictures are photoshoped
7. hacker friendly - being a hacker means you write powerful scripts using BASH and python, just think of ESR and all the mighty Lunix hackers out there
8. Lunix can save your virginity - think of RMS and if you don't believe me, head here: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/533096562.html
9. Lunix is sexy, cool, has cool graphics - just looking at a kernel panic can give you an erection
10. backward compatible - you can flawless run software 7-8 years old on the latest Lunix distributions
11. freedom of choice - you can choose amongst the finest 5000 distributions, 1000 gui toolkits, 2000 window managers, 50 desktop environments and so on
12. has easy to install software - just install 100 libraries, hit autoscan, automake, aclocal, autoconf, configure, make and fix the compile errors
13. has a friendly community - Lunix hackers help Lunix newbies on forums by replying: "RTFM", "it works for me", "works as intended", "it's feature not a bug", "you should try to fix it and contribute to the community", "google is your friend", "already asked"
14. has best software in the world - Open Office is far better than Office, Gimp is better easier to use and moar powerful than Photoshop, mpg123 is better than Winamp, Anjuta is way better than Visual Studio, Gnash is better than flash, mone is better than .Net, Audacity is better than Audition, Avidemux is better than Final Cut. And even if you don't find FOSS alternatives to Windows software, chances are that you don't even need that kind of software
16. free as in free speech - no comment on this, everybody should know that, if not, pot them to Richard Stallman's video in which he explains "freedom" to some mexican immigrants: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
17. free as in free beer - even that some can consider that Lunix is not cheap they lose a lot of money by spending hours and days researching Lunix fixes on the Internets instead of working, the truth is that surfing Lunix mailing lists and forums is a pleasant activity. Also, one should note that only slaves work for corporations while Lunix people are free people, nobody can enslave them. Just follow in RMS's and ESR's steps and you should be fine.
18. has tons of quality games - Windows users barely can play Crysis or World of Worcraft while Lunix people can play exciting games like gTetris or gMines. How cool is that?
19. helps you maintain a healthy way of life - by making you eat natural food like Stallman did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Moar things not to do:
Don't make videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgahANeq14 that is helping the enemy.
Ignore haters, they are just jelous on your cool GNU/Lunix software stack : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gvw73U_VpU
Don't look at proprietary operating systems videos, it's well known that proprietary operating systems are carrying viruses and you might be infected just by looking at them. Be warned! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqDQ0wUcSPQ
Edited 2011-06-03 11:52 UTC