Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:47:52 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> Terry Porter wrote:
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>>> With Linux anything is possible !
>>
>> Except creating a free operating system that people want.
>
> Hahahah, you're such a stuck record dfs wintroll.
>
> Your owner, Microsofts last creation was Vista, is that an example of
> "what people want" ?
>
> Vista has one good point tho, for instance it flopped so *badly* that the
> RAM makers, anticipating a HUGE demand, ended up with tons of excess RAM
> they had to unload..
The project was ill-fated from the beginning. It was terminally stupid
to introduce, what was claimed? 30 million new lines of code?
Microsoft might be good at many things, but software development is not
one of them.
>
> This allowed Linux users to buy 8GB or more for their Linux systems as
> low, low prices, as we *can* really use >4GB ram, unlike most windows
> users
>
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>>> Windows ... which 8 year old stuff do you want to bore yourself with
>>> today ?
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>> Windows XP would be a good start.
>
> A good start for what ?
>
> You kids have no idea how yesterday that OLD OS, released in 2001 is.
>
> You're flogging an old nag dfs wintroll
>
Windows XP, released, what, 8 years ago? A university student starting
this year would be buying something released when he or she was *10
years old*... Amazing. How many things have moved on in that time?
Contrarily, how many exploits have been found for XP in 8 years...
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