Microsoft have decided to get tough on Software Pirates:
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2685/lw-12-v ... index.html
Microsoft marketing is spending big money on their push:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/08 ... e_pirates/
Fed up of spending days reinstalling every patch every time XP went belly up. I took to using a conveniently packaged rollup with SP2 included. Interestingly, while my legitimate copy of XP died every six months my hacked version has run stable for over a year.
Microsoft don't like it, and now I have a big banner telling me that my copy isn't approved. They offer me the option to spend just under £100 to repurchase Windows. I suppose I could return to my original disk that was technically dodgy but legally acceptable.
What I will do is to switch to Linux. I don't think I'll be alone.
Linux on the Desktop is about to take off in the UK
I bet you are right. Also, the distros are going to kick it up a notch as well. I just tested Ubuntu's latest beta (Dapper Drake) and it is a huge visual improvement. I can only imagine what it would be like with XGL.
Dapper is slated to be released in June - I hope they are able to work out all the bugs I have been hearing about. All my GTK2 PB apps work fine on it though.
Dapper is slated to be released in June - I hope they are able to work out all the bugs I have been hearing about. All my GTK2 PB apps work fine on it though.
-Beach
Using Dapper Beta on a daily bases here, runs just fine with only very minor quirks like Audio recording is not working, on a laptop though this isn't to suprising. The only problem using a Beta is you get about 50 Updates a day, you don't have to reboot though, so it's only a problem for the internet connection not for me.
EDIT: The really astonishing thing is the stability and modularity of the system. I have Ubuntu installed on this Laptop first es Version 5.04 Hoaray then I updated without any data loss and taking the working Purebasic installation with me to Breezy, a few weeks ago I than updated the same installation to Dapper again without loosing any data, without reconfiguration and the former Purebasic installation still works as expected. Only had to install new audio and video codecs because the framework changed, everything else is updated by the updatemanager, and it's very easy to remove the old stuff where it didn't just replace it with a newer version.
EDIT: The really astonishing thing is the stability and modularity of the system. I have Ubuntu installed on this Laptop first es Version 5.04 Hoaray then I updated without any data loss and taking the working Purebasic installation with me to Breezy, a few weeks ago I than updated the same installation to Dapper again without loosing any data, without reconfiguration and the former Purebasic installation still works as expected. Only had to install new audio and video codecs because the framework changed, everything else is updated by the updatemanager, and it's very easy to remove the old stuff where it didn't just replace it with a newer version.
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Ubuntu is nice but..
Been playing with it for a few years but it always makes me manually setup the internet conenction and the disk mounting. Since I don't know enough about Linux in general (Actually, I know bugger all), it's been a struggle to find the right documentation to configure this stuff and when you use a live distribution, you can't save the changes.
That's pretty much the only reason I still use Knoppix as it configures everything on start. Only problem is that it's so full of things ot play with, you get tired looking!!! That's where Ubuntu has it beaten.
That's pretty much the only reason I still use Knoppix as it configures everything on start. Only problem is that it's so full of things ot play with, you get tired looking!!! That's where Ubuntu has it beaten.
Amateur Radio/VK3HAF, (D-STAR/DMR and more), Arduino, ESP32, Coding, Crochet
Ubuntu is great I think and the Hardware detection is great too. As mentioned I'm using a Laptop, it only has a WLAN connection but this works without a problem here. No need to go into ifupdown or something like that. There is also a graphical tool to manage IP and DNS, there is a problem though with DNS and a router but there is a lot of help on the Wiki and it's not hard to fix.
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Thanks guys. I found this thread as well.
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... highlight=
I think Ubuntu is the one to go with.
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... highlight=
I think Ubuntu is the one to go with.
I think even Fred uses a Debian based distro!
What I can't get over is the ease of installation.
It was only 5 years ago that you had to spend a couple of days preparation before even trying to install Linux.
A couple of years ago I could get it running, but gave up on trying to get an nternet connetion and printer.
Now it just works.
It looks to me like the inflection point has past, and now Windows will be having to play catch up.
It was only 5 years ago that you had to spend a couple of days preparation before even trying to install Linux.
A couple of years ago I could get it running, but gave up on trying to get an nternet connetion and printer.
Now it just works.
It looks to me like the inflection point has past, and now Windows will be having to play catch up.