Comments on: on why someone on ZDnet is having problems running Linux:

By: BLTicklemonster

BLTicklemonster — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:31:26 +0000

Oh. My bad. The more I read, the more sense you make. Where do I sign up for my tin hat? JL for president!

By: BLTicklemonster

BLTicklemonster — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:07:40 +0000

Jerry, please. The first thing you see when you start your computer has nothing to do with Windows or Microsoft. Try buying a new computer that doesn’t have anything loaded on the hard drive, and boot it. You’ll see the exact same stuff come up, even though the hard drive has no operating system loaded on it at all. It’s called the BIOS. It has nothing to do with the operating system, rather it’s the software that gets the motherboard set up and running in order to be able to be used by an operating system in the first place (oversimplification). Linux doesn’t use Windows drivers to run. I hate to admit that I’m having a good laugh at your expense, reading all the stuff you’ve put out about “the linux” (hint, just call it linux, mkay?), but honestly, you need someone to tell you the truth so you stop making yourself look kind of silly.

Go get a copy of ubuntu, and totally wipe windows off your computer, and install ubuntu on it.

Okay, don’t I was kidding. But DO install ubuntu on a separate partition and check it out. Yes, it’s hard. No, it’s not windows, but I’m on a 3.3 gig computer running a gig of ram, and a pretty new Nvidia video card, and this is faster and more responsive than the Vista machines I see in stores around town.

Try to hold off on the Linux comments for a while until you’ve done a bit more research, okay?

Or keep me laughing, whichever.

By: Nix

Nix — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:50:39 +0000

Brilliant!

I’m trying to work out a machine design in which software really *did* need ruggedizing for higher frequency clocks no luck yet. Something like the machine in Egan’s _Luminous_, perhaps… (but even there the danger would more be of malicious attackers turning the computer into a laser weapon attacking the machine itself: a rather nasty DoS attack…)

By: djnforce9

djnforce9 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:36:57 +0000

The Microsoft boot sequence??? That’s a good one! So I guess now Microsoft has developed our bios firmware and screens too or so says JerryLeeCooper.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:28:22 +0000

Originally appeared here:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31880&messageID=589536&start=-9352

By: Jeanph01

Jeanph01 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:59:03 +0000

This deserve an oscar !