10-27-2002, 11:57 PM
Linux is an open source free Operating System. You can download it from the internet. It's better than windows by all means. It is developed by a thousand people all over the world. Its source code is open source (GNU-GPL licenses) so you can browse it and make something new or make some feature better. It is based in Unix (almost every big server runs in Unix).
The bad news is that it still is an OS for advanced people who know a lot about computers, so newbies will get lost in a while. On the good side, it never crashes, you have complete control over your computer (not like windows which doesn't let you do anything) and it runs on very modest systems. That's how we have a server in our flat running in a 486, connected to a 300Kbps cable ISP and providing internet to our little four computers LAN.
I say that Linux is the future *in PCs*. Macs rocks, but they are so expensive. I can't afford a Mac, not only for its implicit price, but their for the price of their ampliations, software and hardware. PCs are the cheap sollution, and the one which fits for me by the moment. In a near future, when M$ takes over the world, free people will still be out of "Big Brother's" sight using fast and safe Linux on their computers.
Also, Linux features nifty apps like Dos Emu, which runs DOS software better than WinME, WinNT, Win2K or WinXP, and also it has a shell which run Win16 and Win32 (most of them) applications, so QB will live forever in a Linux computer. If we stick to windows, QB will die in less than two or three years, 'cause DOS doesn't work properly on a modern computer with WinXP.
Imagine that you make a game in QB. Fine, you have Win9X and it runs fine, so you put it on the internet for more people to download it. But people have WinXP and can't run your game. Will be QB games only playable by QB coders? It would be a pitty. I've recently learned about the Amish... QB comunity will look a lot like the Amish culture if we stick to Windows.
The bad news is that it still is an OS for advanced people who know a lot about computers, so newbies will get lost in a while. On the good side, it never crashes, you have complete control over your computer (not like windows which doesn't let you do anything) and it runs on very modest systems. That's how we have a server in our flat running in a 486, connected to a 300Kbps cable ISP and providing internet to our little four computers LAN.
I say that Linux is the future *in PCs*. Macs rocks, but they are so expensive. I can't afford a Mac, not only for its implicit price, but their for the price of their ampliations, software and hardware. PCs are the cheap sollution, and the one which fits for me by the moment. In a near future, when M$ takes over the world, free people will still be out of "Big Brother's" sight using fast and safe Linux on their computers.
Also, Linux features nifty apps like Dos Emu, which runs DOS software better than WinME, WinNT, Win2K or WinXP, and also it has a shell which run Win16 and Win32 (most of them) applications, so QB will live forever in a Linux computer. If we stick to windows, QB will die in less than two or three years, 'cause DOS doesn't work properly on a modern computer with WinXP.
Imagine that you make a game in QB. Fine, you have Win9X and it runs fine, so you put it on the internet for more people to download it. But people have WinXP and can't run your game. Will be QB games only playable by QB coders? It would be a pitty. I've recently learned about the Amish... QB comunity will look a lot like the Amish culture if we stick to Windows.
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