Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer from start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
Yes You mean a bootloader? GNU/Linux has GRUB for that. If you mean you can boot it off a CD/DVD, yeah you can do that too. Some flavors are even built entirely to be run off of those. The drivers exist inside the Linux kernel. the services are started by an init system, which there are several options for. Usually GNU/Linux systems use Systemd, but there are quite a few that use the venerable sysvinit, the modular OpenRC, or the lightweight and speedy Runit. Not in great numbers, no, but GNU/Linux is being used very often in servers, both standard on-premises rackmounts, as well as in the AWS cloud and similar offerings from other cloud providers. As far as the few desktop and laptop products that ship with it, Dell has a few business laptops and workstations that offer Ubuntu as an option, and there are small but dedicated companies like System76 and Purism that make it a point to only sell with GNU/Linux preinstalled. In most cases though, GNU/Linux is something that a user will install onto a computer after wiping Windows off its internal storage. What year were these pastas written in? The move to Intel processors was over 10 years ago. You have a point there, but what do you mean by Apple moving to Microsoft? Intel and Microsoft are very different companies, and Apple still develops their own operating systems, which are also Unix clones based on a combination of their own developments and some BSD code. Welcome to $CURRENT_YEAR. Linux has been able to do that for over a decade with the help of GNU and other non-Microsoft projects and communities. I think you need to stop being a baka
Juan Bell
Only an idiot wouldnt like Linux
Joshua Hernandez
Hey Jerry it was already posted.
Ethan Edwards
kuso thread anyway
Joseph Sanders
Its clearly evident that vista is the future. One only has to watch TV for a short period of time and see the advertising.
WOW !!
I personally love the part where the young man is taking a stroll in the delightful snow covered streets, and sees firsthand a young deer with a gleefull glint in its eye. It sends a shiver down my spine. WOW is all I can say.
Vista is clearly the future of enterprise computing.
Dylan Edwards
Isn't this from reddit?
Landon Cooper
So, let me get this right - you downloaded a trial version of the linux from the internet, and tried to install it on a perfectly good machine.
Your trial version failed to install. This is most likely because the time period for the trial had expired, so thats easy enough to understand. Another probable reason for the failure to install is because your machine was running too fast - linux works best on machines around the 1GHz mark, and would be very unstable running on a 3GHz machine.
All those facts aside, what concerns me most is that the linux loaded a virus onto the windows petition, and corrupted your machine ?
Astonishing !!
Novell has every right to restrict the distribution of their trial freewares, and abort the installation if the terms of the EULA have not been met. However, it is absolutely against the law for Novell to go that one fatal step further, and install a virus in retribution.
It is illegal for a supplier of software to inflict such punitive measures.
You have an excellent case here for taking Novell to a court of law, and prosecuting this malicious action on their part without predjudice.
I highly recommend that you pursue this course of action.
Gabriel Miller
Reading this made me physically uncomfortable. Jesus.
