Linus: Microsoft Hatred is a Disease

OSNews ^ | July 23rd

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

There's a reason why Linus has been and remains the leader of the linux world.

[Tainan]

Linux...yeah....I sent for the disk...got it...installed it....cost me US$80 for a complete re-format thanks to NO UNISTALL feature on the Linux disk.

hings they never mention....

[perfect_rovian_storm]

I’ve never seen any operating system with an ‘uninstall’ feature. Simply format it and install whatever you want.

[Big Giant Head]

What? Did you pay someone $80 to reformat your disk? It’s too bad you’re not my neighbor, I’d have done it for half.

Linux disk installation procedure has a format option. Windows installation disks have format options. Why didn’t you use one?

What version of Linux did you get? Ubuntu? I recommend PCLinuxOS myself. It’s made for the non-CLI guy, the GUI kinda guy, like me.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

For all the wrangling between software developers, in the final analysis what they are doing is a form of artistic science. The exploration of invention and discovery.

From its point of view, Microsoft is probably very aware that Windows very complexity is working against it. And some new combination of hardware and software will leave Microsoft in the dust. A computer that is to today’s computers what the PC was to an adding machine.

But that is “the undiscovered country”. Why obsess about petty rivalries when there is a new world to explore?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

The only linux distros that have a capability for uninstallation are those which are installed in a VM - you open up the second operating system like you would open up an application ala office.

If you do a reformat and install a different operating system there can’t be an uninstall feature.

=========hings they never mention....============

All linux distros warn you during the installation process that they are going to delete everything on the hard drive before you do it. Even in CLI mode. Delete = gone. They shouldn’t have to tell you that one.

That’s one of the best(useful) pop up windows in computing history, I’d think.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

==========The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.=============

ROFL!

And there’s no lube in sight!

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

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[ShadowAce]

[antiRepublicrat]

It’s nice to see a pragmatist in charge with all the fanatics running around.

[SteelTrap]

I’ve always admired Linus. I always wondered why he didn’t jump on the big corporate rocket ship and become big wig like some of his contemporaries. Maybe its because he despises powerpoint as much as I do. Either way, I appreciate what he and others set in motion many moons ago. I’m a Suse guy, fwiw.

[AFreeBird]

You could have just installed it in it’s own partition and left whatever os you had still on there. For $80 I would have happy to do it for you.

[Tribune7]

I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred."

Golly, to what quasi-sane lefty could he be referring???

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

*cue sinister movie theme*

RICHARD STALLMAN

LOL . . . . . the typical whacko

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

————Maybe its because he despises powerpoint as much as I do.—————

LOL!

[N3WBI3]

If you had to pay someone 80$ to reformat a disk what were you doing trying to install something in the first place?

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Sounds like the ID10T interface on the mouse and keyboard was defective.

[Tainan]

Yo Momma ...

[Tainan]

To those who had kind offers and useful suggestions - I thank you. The disk I received was Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Desktop Edition. I attempted to install it into a partition I created for it. Now I think I should have maybe run it from the disk only. Although, as I remember, I tried doing that without success. My results were, as noted, not very good. I make no claim to being a techie...I still have no idea what a "kernel" is other than what popcorn comes from.
To those who offered insults...Gee...maybe you're taking this entirely too personal.

I read the Linux comments on FR for a year or so and asked some, what I thought were, pertinent questions before requesting the disk. I attempted to follow what, to me, were very sketchy directions in doing the install. From my standpoint as a non-tech person, they were NOT intuitive for someone such as myself coming from a background of Windows..starting around 3.0 or so.
I still have the disk. Maybe on a new build box I'll try again.
But honestly, I wanted it to work. From what I read it sounds like a good OS. But for me...it was not a good experience.

If that busts your balloon...sin loi.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

It sounds like you tried a long time ago. A year is like a lifetime in the changes that can occur in Linux development.

Now, you can just install it on a flash drive or memory card and if you can get your computer to boot that from the bios, you don’t even have to install it on the hard drive to try it out.

You can download a point and click program to accomplish this here:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

I recommend Linux Mint. It’s the one that ‘just works’ better than any others that I’ve used on the desktop.