Your choice of: RedHat 6.2 Linux, RedHat 7.0 Linux Beta, Mandrake 7.1 Linux. for Free and free shipping!!!
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From the website:
9/14 Update: Due the overwhelming success of our Free CD program, we have completely run out of CDs. We have received over 25,000 requests for our Linux CDs. The words has spread quickly and we anticipate next month will be even busier! We're working on producing tons (literally!) of CDs for next month. On October 1st, the giveaway will start up again, so check back often for updates. Each month we will offer a new CD, so vote below to determine which CD will be offered in November! Thanks to everyone for their support! Go Linux!
In October Caldrea OpenDesktop will be distro'd.
9/14 Update: Due the overwhelming success of our Free CD program, we have completely run out of CDs. We have received over 25,000 requests for our Linux CDs. The words has spread quickly and we anticipate next month will be even busier! We're working on producing tons (literally!) of CDs for next month. On October 1st, the giveaway will start up again, so check back often for updates. Each month we will offer a new CD, so vote below to determine which CD will be offered in November! Thanks to everyone for their support! Go Linux!
In October Caldrea OpenDesktop will be distro'd.
Well all that tells me is that Linux is so desperate for users they have to literally give the product away. (ship it to the person for free)
Linux is too much like DOS, even with its graphical interface. It also has just as many problems as any other operating system.
Linux is too much like DOS, even with its graphical interface. It also has just as many problems as any other operating system.
Thanks for the link, No better time to see what linux is all about. NO way I was goin to downloaad that with a dial up connection.
Dude, Linux was made to be free. No one ever charged for it (except those retail ones that come with manuals and support) and no one will in the future. These are also freely available from all the different companies making different flavors of the OS. Even the person who WROTE it, Linus, didn't charge for it, he gave it away free.
Of course, for the problems, every product has it's share of problems. I don't think linux was made with the agenda of being a consumer OS for everyday use, which is why it's not very friendly to Joe User. Think about it. Why is it's success in the server and webserver area?
Of course, for the problems, every product has it's share of problems. I don't think linux was made with the agenda of being a consumer OS for everyday use, which is why it's not very friendly to Joe User. Think about it. Why is it's success in the server and webserver area?
Tcool, if you had used linux, you must have realised that its KDE graphical interface is more powerful than that of windows..
the only flaw i see in linux that's scared users away have been either the lack of user friendly-ness or the lack of support from the software industry. it's uses are awesome though, a much more powerful OS then any damn microsoft product, and in one word, stable.
i wouldn't expect my parents to go get a copy or my neighbors, but if i'm assuming if you're a regular anandtech reader you should be one of the few computer-literate enough to be able to use it. linux has always been free, which means no greed and monopoly driven corporate agenda.
i wouldn't expect my parents to go get a copy or my neighbors, but if i'm assuming if you're a regular anandtech reader you should be one of the few computer-literate enough to be able to use it. linux has always been free, which means no greed and monopoly driven corporate agenda.
And a few often forgotten things that make Linux better than DOS:
1. You had to pay even for DOS 1.0.
2. Better technical support.
3. More mature and stable.
4. Faster bug fixes.
5. Tech support that doesn't assume you an idiot or an *hole.
6. When a program crashes it doesn't bring down the hole system.
7. When a program is installed it can't overwrite the libraries
another program depends upon.
I think the real comparison is between Linux and the other versions of Unix for Intel: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDx86, Solaris for Intel, and SCO.
All free for home use.
They are slightly less freindly to the typical PC user, but I think most of techies on this site could handle them no problem. Unix just gets a bad rap for being unfathomable because of its past. I may be biased, since I have worked with Unix for ten years, but I find if you need to do anything beyond installing a program and running it Windows in all it's many facits and black boxes is just as hard or harder to work with. And, if you say you don't want to do anything but install programs and run them then you are just going to have to live with system hangs forever.
1. You had to pay even for DOS 1.0.
2. Better technical support.
3. More mature and stable.
4. Faster bug fixes.
5. Tech support that doesn't assume you an idiot or an *hole.
6. When a program crashes it doesn't bring down the hole system.
7. When a program is installed it can't overwrite the libraries
another program depends upon.
I think the real comparison is between Linux and the other versions of Unix for Intel: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDx86, Solaris for Intel, and SCO.
All free for home use.
They are slightly less freindly to the typical PC user, but I think most of techies on this site could handle them no problem. Unix just gets a bad rap for being unfathomable because of its past. I may be biased, since I have worked with Unix for ten years, but I find if you need to do anything beyond installing a program and running it Windows in all it's many facits and black boxes is just as hard or harder to work with. And, if you say you don't want to do anything but install programs and run them then you are just going to have to live with system hangs forever.
<< , but I find if you need to do anything beyond installing a program and running it Windows in all it's many facits and black boxes is just as hard or harder to work with. And, if you say you don't want to do anything but install programs and run them then you are just going to have to live with system hangs forever. >>
huh?
Sorry if those long sentences don't parse quite right.
What I mean is that there is no documentation on what all those dlls do. And no documentation on what programs use which dlls. And certainly no source code for for the dlls or the programs. That is they are black boxes that take input and produce output, but you're not allowed to know how. Linux and Unix come with complete documentation on all files and programs. And for many versions you can even get source code.
Being kept in the dark about so much about what is happening in windows helps make it nearly impossible to determing what causes system crashes. It could be any program on your system. And the WHOLE system dies, not just one process. That is why you are stuck with unexplained system hangs.
One more benefit of Linux that should be appreciated on this site:
Performance.
Dell recently ran the web server SPEC benchmark against 2 systems with identical hardware. One had the latest windows version and the flagship MS web server. The other had RedHat and Appache. RedHat had about 50% greater throughput. When the same test was performed with 4 way SMP Red Hat had about 300% greater throughput.
What I mean is that there is no documentation on what all those dlls do. And no documentation on what programs use which dlls. And certainly no source code for for the dlls or the programs. That is they are black boxes that take input and produce output, but you're not allowed to know how. Linux and Unix come with complete documentation on all files and programs. And for many versions you can even get source code.
Being kept in the dark about so much about what is happening in windows helps make it nearly impossible to determing what causes system crashes. It could be any program on your system. And the WHOLE system dies, not just one process. That is why you are stuck with unexplained system hangs.
One more benefit of Linux that should be appreciated on this site:
Performance.
Dell recently ran the web server SPEC benchmark against 2 systems with identical hardware. One had the latest windows version and the flagship MS web server. The other had RedHat and Appache. RedHat had about 50% greater throughput. When the same test was performed with 4 way SMP Red Hat had about 300% greater throughput.
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