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    ...dunno what linux is, just felt a bit left out.

    Time for a seperate linux forum?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GAZTOPIA View Post
    ...dunno what linux is, just felt a bit left out.

    Time for a seperate linux forum?
    It's a flavour of UNIX, named after Linus Torvald who first made it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by musophilr View Post
    It's a flavour of UNIX, named after Linus Torvald who first made it.
    Well that's cleared that up then...


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    If you don't know anything about Unix, it's a competitor to Windows and MacOS
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    Quote Originally Posted by jalapeno View Post
    If you don't know anything about Unix, it's a competitor to Windows and MacOS
    Ah, so if Windows is The Black Album, the cool people would go for MacOS which would be Master of Puppets. And i guess UNIX is for those who are too cool for Master of Puppets and therefore UNIX is Ride the Lightning. Which makes Linux Kill 'em All?

    Got it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GAZTOPIA View Post
    Ah, so if Windows is The Black Album, the cool people would go for MacOS which would be Master of Puppets. And i guess UNIX is for those who are too cool for Master of Puppets and therefore UNIX is Ride the Lightning. Which makes Linux Kill 'em All?

    Got it.
    Very good! Except OSX would be more like their most sell-out album ever, like if they'd done a Christmas album or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jalapeno View Post
    If you don't know anything about Unix, it's a competitor to Windows and MacOS

    And if you do know anything about Unix, you'll know Jal is trolling like a mother-f*cker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jalapeno View Post
    If you don't know anything about Unix, it's a competitor to Windows and MacOS
    MacOS contains (or used to contain) UNIX BSD 4.2

    Windows is NO competition for UNIX. The difference is you can do useful work with UNIX.

    There's one other difference ... with Linux you build it yourself and if you want you can edit it yourself to get it to do what you want it to do. The downside is if the result doesn't work, its YOUR fault not Microsoft's.

    IMO the main advantage of UNIX is its shell. Next to writing your own tools in C it's the most powerful thing I've ever come across. Windows has nothing like it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GAZTOPIA View Post
    ...dunno what linux is, just felt a bit left out.
    One of the characters off Peanuts.

    Good grief.
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