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  1. 12th February 2007, 08:10 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by grumpybastard View Post
    I actually meant the other way round, OSX on a PC
    I'm not sure that is possible - it uses a different boot method (in hardware I think) that took some fancy software to get Windows to live with, and I haven't heard of anyone doing a workaround to get OS X to work on "PC" hardware. The Mac may use an x86 processor, but that doesn't mean the rest of the hardware is the same as a PC, probably deliberately, as Apple sells hardware as well as software - and when they first introduced the x86 hardware it was supposed to be impossible to get Windows to run on it. (Of course that meant everyone tried until someone found a way to do it)

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    Let us get one thing straight. Linux is not Unix it is Unix like, and is not allowed to use the Unix trade mark, which Free/Net/Open BSD are. I actually read a really good quote about the differences between BSD and Linux on friday!

    BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC.
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    As I'm sure you all know I use a Mac with OS X which is essentially a version of BSD. I call it the flashest Linux distibution out.
    I think this quote would **** quite a few BSD people off!

    Now before you all start saying "what does this idiot know!" I have been a Unix Administrator for the last fourteen years, I've worked on System V, HP-ux, OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64, DG-ux, SunOS, Solaris, SCO and have specialised on AIX for the last eight years.

    To finish on a lighter note, a cartoon that I've always liked!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cmurray View Post
    I think this quote would **** quite a few BSD people off!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    Linux has the main advantage that it is almost totally immune to viruses (they exist, but none have ever spread, although why not is subject to some discussion) and inherently safer from other types of attack than Windows.
    i love this furphy, yes very few viruses (in the windows sense of the word) on linux, no argument, why, it is too easy to get access other ways eg thru services running on the system...sendmail, bind, mysql, php on an apache server running on the box are the most common, but there is many many others...

    NO freely available operating system is immune unless it has been hardened or specifically setup for certain tasks... and the average joe with his suse, fedora, debian, mandrake or with a *bsd disc in his hand has no clue how to harden the box before it goes on the net.. nor do they really want to know...
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  5. 12th February 2007, 02:18 PM #25
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    Red face

    Oops, that started something. Sorry.

    Suse and Ubuntu are a couple I have had trouble with. Most people do, if they don't check HCL's etc.

    Had a nightmare recently, trying to get a Canon Pixma to work under Ubuntu.

    Now that I have learned to stick with certain types of hardware, that is friendly to both systems, MS and *nix, I think a dual boot on a decent system, behind a properly configuered firewall etc, good for me at least. I don't play most of the games the rest of the world seems to anyway, Gimp is a good, quirky, but good graphics package, Open Office does all I need it to, Amarok for music, Kaffeine for video, and more versions of solitare than windows has ever seen.

    I like it, I'll keep using it, didn't mean to start a fued, just curious to know if any others were Linux users, as well as MS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shorty943 View Post

    Any other Landy owners like the security and stability of the Linux system?

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    Yes, I build and maintain Linux (Debian) servers for a living Two things I'm happy to chat about all day long, Land Rovers & Linux. Now how to combine the 2... hrmmm

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    Talking

    Biggest problem I have combining the two, is my Landy is a Series model. Doesn't actually need a computer to help it go. Nothing happens fast enough to justify an old 386 watchdog. And anyway, how do you build a machine shock proof enough to cope with the Series suspension?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shorty943 View Post
    Biggest problem I have combining the two, is my Landy is a Series model. Doesn't actually need a computer to help it go......
    But does need one to talk about it! As this forum shows!

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  9. 21st February 2007, 08:10 PM #29
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    Too fiddly for me and it doesn't run Photoshop.

    Well worth it if you have the time. That said if I continue down the path I am on with my home network, I'll be wanting a Linux file server before to long.
    Linux has GIMP, alternative to photo shop.There is a .Deb download called Gimpshop2. It is designed to rename the Gimp menus to read as photoshop menus to help people navigate through gimp as if they were using photoshop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rovernaut View Post
    Linux has GIMP, alternative to photo shop......
    And The Gimp is also available under Windows. See - www.gimp.org/windows/

    Comparable to Photoshop, but rather idiosyncratic, and vastly cheaper.

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