(01-29-2008, 05:33 AM)OneManArmy link Wrote: Here is food for thought. If linux/unix/macs/hobo OS are soooooo better XP, why arent all these the majority OS when put all together? IF its sooo more efficent and cheap and BETTER, why arent they the majority. Its not as if you can say that most ppl havent heard of it. These days you find this hobo shit even in unis. No one is ever around them coz they just look pitiful... just wanting attention. And only last week MS announced an enormous amount of profit. Get real.
Because years and years ago Microsoft released Windows as a cheap OS which would run on a variety of machines, a concept that most computer manufacturers took up allowing extremely cheap Windows computers. Linux was practically unknown back then, and Apple were working on quality of product instead of how well it sold - they required Apple hardware.
However in the recent years as people rely less and less on Windows as they're not as tied in as they used to be, and as more and more see new possibilities on other OSs, people ARE in fact switching. They're switching like hell. I know a bunch of people who've switched to Linux and OSX, and they can honestly say they're better off.
Enormous profits? Well of course you'd make that much from an OS which they sell for ~$300(+?). The XBox360 is another product from them, which they got out quickly and cheaply by using HD-DVD technologies. And well, look what development is currently dying. I'm sure you can guess.
(01-29-2008, 05:33 AM)OneManArmy link Wrote: Also like i pointed out earlier, samp comes both in linux and XP. So this poll cannot be labelled as being biased.
Err, SA-MP doesn't run officially on Linux without virtualization (inside XP), or using the XP runtimes in WINE -- neither of which is directly Linux.
(01-29-2008, 05:33 AM)OneManArmy link Wrote: Man you say that as if switching to macs will make their network 100%. If you are well experianced with macs then you should know that macs are also hackable. Its just that becoz macs arent good enough to replace the real thing, there is never much need to hack them. I know you know this. So why even bring this up as an argument?
No network is 100% secure. However, OSX comes with 128-bit AES encryption possibilities out the box, with one click. It's built on a rock hard core which has been created in the past 8 years (unlike Windows
).
I bring that up as it's just an example of who uses non-XP OSs to get things done securely. OSX isn't so different to Linuxes, apart from the fact that Apple have rewritten a lot of the core systems to some extent.
To sum up, maybe XP and Vista aren't doing badly at the moment, but their time to shine is nearly up - the dawn of the *nix OSs is upon us.
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