You just can’t ask for a better headline than this. It looks like the London Stock Exchange, having lost a packet due to using Microsoft and Accenture technology, has decided to call the whole thing off. No word yet on what the replacement will be, although Linux is one option.
Not that Linux — or even Unix — is necessarily the best option. There are even better OSes out there, for example any mainframe OS.
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You just can’t ask for a better headline than this. It looks like the London Stock Exchange, having lost a packet due to using Microsoft and Accenture technology, has decided to call the whole thing off. No word yet on what the replacement will be, although Linux is one option.
Not that Linux — or even Unix — is necessarily the best option. There are even better OSes out there, for example any mainframe OS.
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We all know that Windows Vista breaks a lot of things. What’s surprising is that it breaks Windows software so badly that running that same software under Linux and Wine (a free Windows implementation) can be a better choice. Here’s a list of games which run better under Linux+Wine than under Vista. Microsoft sure have some egg on their face with this one.
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We all know that Windows Vista breaks a lot of things. What’s surprising is that it breaks Windows software so badly that running that same software under Linux and Wine (a free Windows implementation) can be a better choice. Here’s a list of games which run better under Linux+Wine than under Vista. Microsoft sure have some egg on their face with this one.
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A former Windows user details his experiences after using Ubuntu Linux for some time. His verdict? ‘After Ubuntu, Windows looks increasingly bad, increasingly archaic. increasingly unfriendly.’
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A former Windows user details his experiences after using Ubuntu Linux for some time. His verdict? ‘After Ubuntu, Windows looks increasingly bad, increasingly archaic. increasingly unfriendly.’
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Dave Fancella’s wife had more difficulty installing Windows than Linux. A good read, with some interesting points, most notably that the Windows install made her feel unintelligent, but the Mandrake Linux install made her happy.
07 February 2018: updated with new link
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Dave Fancella’s wife had more difficulty installing Windows than Linux. A good read, with some interesting points, most notably that the Windows install made her feel unintelligent, but the Mandrake Linux install made her happy.
07 February 2018: updated with new link
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Windows is so insecure that it’s impossible to secure it; in the time between installation on the net and downloading vital patches, it will already have been infected. Friends don’t let friends do Windows.
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Windows is so insecure that it’s impossible to secure it; in the time between installation on the net and downloading vital patches, it will already have been infected. Friends don’t let friends do Windows.
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Scott Granneman of Security Focus has an article in the Reg arguing that Windows is inherently insecure, and that if some Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac OS) took over the desktop and server markets, we’d not see the sorts of vulnerabilities and worms so prevalent with Windows, Internet Information Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer &c.
I’m not quite certain. It seems to me that as long as there are those who wish to use computers without knowledge, there will be broken programs which cater to their supposed needs — and that so long as these programs exist, there will be problems.
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Scott Granneman of Security Focus has an article in the Reg arguing that Windows is inherently insecure, and that if some Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac OS) took over the desktop and server markets, we’d not see the sorts of vulnerabilities and worms so prevalent with Windows, Internet Information Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer &c.
I’m not quite certain. It seems to me that as long as there are those who wish to use computers without knowledge, there will be broken programs which cater to their supposed needs — and that so long as these programs exist, there will be problems.
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