Re: [tlug] Speaking of computer usage ....

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus+shape@example.com>]

2008/2/29, SL Baur <steve@example.com>:
> Just about *everyone* is missing the point why Linux rocks.  Free as
>  in beer?  Who cares?  I'd rather buy a CD/DVD of the distro or pay to
>  have it as a preinstall.  Free as in liberty?
Is that the philosophy of the GNU project? I am using Linux because I trust it.
It gives me everything I need to see ( source code ) when I need. Why other
FOSS ( under GNU's definition ) is  like a religion, people use it
because they trust it.

>  [MS] they've always
>  delivered toy operating systems.  But efficiency in using computer
>  resources ...?
The OS itself maybe a toy, but the applications that third parties are
building on it  are not.
For average users, using "toy" OS may give better productivity.

>  I logged in 45 days ago, the system has an uptime of 83 days (I
>  don't have a UPS in my cube), I have only 1GB of memory and I'm
>  slightly over 1GB into swap. Everything runs with acceptable
>  performance except the Firefox running over the network on a
>  Solaris workstation. Oh and this all with the older, piggier and slower
>  KDE 3 *and* this is an "old" HP workstation that isn't likely to be
>  "Vista Capable".
Richness of features and simplicity is a trade-off. KDE and Firefos
are feature-rich because
both projects are trying to compete with existing commercial applications.
Their works are great but like you said, both hit the performance barrier.




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