sadly i purchased vista and hated it (nothing works well and awful slow its like going back to win 95 but a bit prettier…), so now am a full time Ubuntu linux user and love it (didnt know linux got so good).

if a picture is worth a thousand words, a vid is worth a million ??

vista didn’t steal ideas from Mac ??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM&mode=related&search=

anyway did you purchase a playstation 3 yet ??

how was your ps3 experience ?

here’s a vid on linux on the play 3 doing cool stuff (more can be searchable there are dozens of em)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozdOLV2q20k

I´ll start one once i get home from my vacation in the US

You’re entitled to your opinion.

“Just installing software is often a chore. ”

As stated earlier:
Mandrake/Mandriva urpmi
Gentoo emerge
Debian/(*)ubuntu apt-get install
Redhat yum ????

“That said, if you don’t try anything fancy Linux can be tolerable.”

I don’t know I run a dns, mail, http, ssh server all on my computer and host several .com/.us sites from here. I’d say that’s pretty fancy. Something that would cost me $100 for a dedicated server only costs me $10 for a static ip, and whatever electricity I consume.

I have access to 100% of my files 100% of the time anywhere in the world with an internet connection, and putty/winscp installed. Cost $0.

I can surf the web, check my email, shut down my gui convert video to just about anything, and the best part is its free.

I don’t have to run a virus scanner, because most of the viruses for linux are not active.

“I’ll also… um… well… there must be something else Linux is good for. But I’m drawing a blank.”

Linux is *really good* at saving you money.

I don’t want to complain about windows maker, but there are better desktop environments out there. Like KDE, and GNOME. Of course I might try it again next week, and decide I like it. The times I have tried it I didn’t really like it either.

Going back to windows is difficult. There are so many things that I have set up just so in linux that are impossible in windows. Like the ‘focus follows mouse’ feature in KDE. ALT+Left-Click any anywhere on the window and I can move it. Right click any window and make it “on top” The list goes on.

There are so many little things that do exist in linux that don’t exist in windows a simple ps -Al gives me a list of running processes that I can easily ps -Al > process.txt and email/print process.txt.

I guess I shouldn’t get so defensive about my os. I was searching for information on PS3 linux, and this site was #2.

I thought it would be some information on the ps3 having linux, but it really was a blog about 1 guy who tried linux, and didn’t like it.

Bottom line Linux is a free OS.

*** Erm grabs his tinfoil hat.

There isn’t any ‘keep tabs on the customer’ code like IE has. *It logs every url you visit, and you can’t delete them by normal means.* Outlook keeps a copy of every email you send. Windows Media Player logs every song you listen to. M$ Word Files are fsked up too. From what I understand you can ctrl+z to see what the author was typing before they actually typed it all – I could be miss informed –

If all this “spy ware” exists inside M$ products what’s inside the kernel?

I wouldn’t be surprised if M$ has a files list on 90% of it’s users.

M$ has gone into small countries and basically said if you don’t pass this law, we’ll pull our tech jobs from your country.

There are more reasons to run Linux than just the price. Freedom and big brother come to mind.

Erm

AIX, RH7-ish, HPUX… you cannot compair these to a modern “desktop” linux distro like FC or ubuntu. it’s like saying “oh I used windows 3.1, it was so hard to use, had to edit all these text files, man windows is so useless”. Linux really has come a long way, in some ways even furthur than OSX seeing as some things that come with OSX started life on Linux (“windows networking” for one major one, no, it’s not based on samba, it IS samba).

Sony won’t ever release a linux distro for PS3, and they don’t need to. the perfect fit seems to me to be Xubuntu with the xfce desktop which is GTK based and so not ugly like CDE, runs comfortably in 128Meg ram (cold boot to desktop with genric kernel including offical nvidia drivers is under 80Meg ram used), and debian based so there is a metric-fsck-ton of ppc apps already compiled and waiting.