A week ago I wrote here my belief that
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Linux has won!":
>..
> We're so used to thinking that Linux is a
> niche OS that only 1% of the people use at home, that we (or at least I)
> missed the fact that this changed! O
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Steve G. wrote:
FWIW, I have machines running dual win7/ubuntu. I use windows for one thing
only - managing podcasts on iPads with iTunes (seems that Apple has Windows
software, but not Linux (maybe this is how they repay Windows for the
investment when Apple was going down t
One machine is a netbook, and is barely usable as it is...
The other could handle a VM, but I have never had any luck installing
Windows into a VM. Using windows as my main OS is too painful - always some
crap to take care of, not worth the hassle.
Finally, vmware requires recompiling any time th
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 19:22 +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> 2011/4/3 Steve G.
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> So I have it in use 5 minutes every couple of days, and the
> rest is pure Linux.
>
>
> Why don't you use a virtual machine. I think some of them can redirect
> USB from host to virtual sy
2011/4/3 Steve G.
>
> So I have it in use 5 minutes every couple of days, and the rest is pure
> Linux.
>
Why don't you use a virtual machine. I think some of them can redirect USB
from host to virtual system.
> Z.
>
>
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2011, Stan Goodman wrote about "Re: Linux has won!":
> To emphasize the above, recall that there was a time when most of the
> ATMs in the United States were running OS/2, and many (including myself)
> fell into the trap of concluding that OS/2 had a bri
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011, Ariel Biener wrote about "Re: Linux has won!":
> On 04/03/2011 02:33 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
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> Sorry for top posting. I think however that you're wrong.
>
> As a desktop platform, Linux has not won, and that was what
But line of r
FWIW, I have machines running dual win7/ubuntu. I use windows for one thing
only - managing podcasts on iPads with iTunes (seems that Apple has Windows
software, but not Linux (maybe this is how they repay Windows for the
investment when Apple was going down the drain a few years ago).
For my need
On Sunday, April 03, 2011 04:48:02 PM Ariel Biener Ariel Biener
wrote:
> As a desktop platform, Linux has not won, and that was what
> your colleague was referring to. The fact Linux is embedded
> into many devices, and that some of them even present a UI
> to you is not irrelevant, Linux is inde
On 04/03/2011 02:33 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
Sorry for top posting. I think however that you're wrong.
As a desktop platform, Linux has not won, and that was what
your colleague was referring to. The fact Linux is embedded
into many devices, and that some of them even present a UI
to you is not
Today over lunch, a few of us were talking about Linux vs. Windows.
Somebody said, among other things, that he prefers Windows because it is more
popular. Then it dawned on me: We're so used to thinking that Linux is a
niche OS that only 1% of the people use at home, that we (or at least I)
missed
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