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  1. Comment - Windows Thrashes SUSE Linux in Study

    (Nov 17, 2005 - 5:03 PM)

    "ALL OSes I've ever used can be quickly taken over if you have physicall access to the box."

    Not if you use an encrypted filesystem. You can take over the box, not the OS.

  2. Comment - Windows Thrashes SUSE Linux in Study

    (Nov 17, 2005 - 4:58 PM)

    "All the rubbish spouted about Windows not being secure is ebing done by people who simply don't understand what they're talking about."

    No they are talking about old Windows (3x,9x), they are talking about IE, ...

    "Some are more secure out of the box than others but all can be made VERY secure."

    Exactly. An average linux box is more secure than an average windows box because the average is the default.

  3. Comment - Windows Thrashes SUSE Linux in Study

    (Nov 17, 2005 - 4:51 PM)

    Try Mandriva or another user-friendly linux distribution.
    Install user time: Madriva: 10mn, WinXP: 2h
    System ready: Mandriva: 30mn*, WinXP: 2h
    * minimal install (OS, desktop, utils)
    Programs: Mandriva: 4363, WinXP: 14
    Language available: Mandriva: 61, WinXP: 1
    etc

  4. Comment - Windows Thrashes SUSE Linux in Study

    (Nov 17, 2005 - 4:43 PM)

    "If XP is crashing on you on a daily basis, not to put too fine a point on it but it's either flaky hardware or flaky drivers."

    No I just run Noddy and Teletubbies. Enough to crash XP. I also can not remove an icon on a non-admin user (that crashes explorer), inability to kill a process and other stuff like that. This is a plain WinXP HE with auto-update. The problem is not that some old (or recent) programs can't run but that they crash the kernel. CMD is a joke. No serious completion.

    "configurability is eminently simple as all functions are accessible from at least two locations in the GUI"

    Configurability is very limited (how to put the taskbar at the top of the screen?) and not always easy (regedit anyone?)

    "the best out-of-box experience of ANY consumer OS and all *Nix variants - again because it's deisgned to."

    I just said the same. Good for gamers, children a few other things. Acceptable for music, video, ...

    "Communication with non-Windows systems at the desktop level is not much of an issue since it's the default consumer OS"

    This is imperialistic. Anyway in my family it is not the default consumer OS. And that is what counts.

    "On a corporate level, it has no difficulty communicating with any of the IBM AIX boxes in our organization, nor any of the Sun Enterprise class boxes."

    How do you launch sshd? How to mount a NFS volume? How can I read a Mac floppy disk?

  5. Comment - Google Share Price Passes $400 Mark

    (Nov 17, 2005 - 12:34 PM)

    Go Go Google. BTW, if the launch of Base was OK, the launch of Analytics was a failure (in a technical point of view).
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