Ubuntu Voted Best OS on the Market

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39256251,00.htm

You can download the new Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10 from
http://www.ubuntu.com/ and it's free and comes with access to thousands
of free programs!

What you can do with Ubuntu:

Email
Surf the web
Burn CDs.
Rip CDs.
Listen to music using the computer.
Watch vidoes/DVDs.
Scan and print.
Spreadsheets.
Presentations
Newsgroups.
HTML editing.
Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc.
Make videos.
Download photos from a camera and organize them.
Translations from one language to another.
Use a dictionary program that's much faster than using a book
Learn how to touch type with a touch type learning program.
Edit images.
Send and receive a fax.
Take screenshots.
Create .PDF files.
Create and use a data base.
Instant messaging with over 10 different programs in one including
Windows Live Messenger.
IRC.
Bluetooth.

and much more!

What you can't do with Ubuntu:

Worry about:
WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,
DRM,
Viruses,
Root kits,
Spyware,
and
Malware.

The reasons that Ubuntu is more secure than Windows are twofold:

1. When *anything* in Ubuntu needs updating or patching, it all comes
from the same source and a little orange star appears when any updates
or patches are available. It's a known fact that anti virus apps and
anti malware apps can only deal with nasties that are known, not the new
ones. Hence, it is very important to be updated or patched and not just
the operating system but everything that is installed on the computer.
Windows has no central updating source and the user has to be checking
constantly for updates to their programs or face the possibility of
being compromised.

2. In Ubuntu, when anything wants to install, you have to key in your
password. With Windows, you have to click on "OK" or nothing at all as
is evidenced by drive by malware. Unlike Windows, the Linux kernel is
not intertwined with a browser like Windows is with Internet Explorer
and the kernel is kept away and protected from the user account.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Karmic Krapware: "the BEST advertising Microsoft could ask for"

Karmic Krapware: 6 serious problems, "deeply unimpressed... Hell no I
won't recommend it to friends"

Karmic Krapware: "STINKS ON ICE.... worst release yet... many crashes"

Karmic Krapware: "it's a huge disappointment"

Karmic Krapware victim: "so frustrating...almost zero trust in
Canonical...Windows 7 for the win"

Karmic Krapware: "hell to upgrade... daily fatal freezes...a real mess"

Ref: comp.os.linux.advocacy

 

[STAN STARINSKI]

Alias is voted a*hole of the Year.

 

[Alias]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39256251,00.htm

You can download the new Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10 from
http://www.ubuntu.com/ and it's free and comes with access to thousands
of free programs!

What you can do with Ubuntu:

Email
Surf the web
Burn CDs.
Rip CDs.
Listen to music using the computer.
Watch vidoes/DVDs.
Scan and print.
Spreadsheets.
Presentations
Newsgroups.
HTML editing.
Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc.
Make videos.
Download photos from a camera and organize them.
Translations from one language to another.
Use a dictionary program that's much faster than using a book
Learn how to touch type with a touch type learning program.
Edit images.
Send and receive a fax.
Take screenshots.
Create .PDF files.
Create and use a data base.
Instant messaging with over 10 different programs in one including
Windows Live Messenger.
IRC.
Bluetooth.

and much more!

What you can't do with Ubuntu:

Worry about:
WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,
DRM,
Viruses,
Root kits,
Spyware,
and
Malware.

The reasons that Ubuntu is more secure than Windows are twofold:

1. When *anything* in Ubuntu needs updating or patching, it all comes
from the same source and a little orange star appears when any updates
or patches are available. It's a known fact that anti virus apps and
anti malware apps can only deal with nasties that are known, not the new
ones. Hence, it is very important to be updated or patched and not just
the operating system but everything that is installed on the computer.
Windows has no central updating source and the user has to be checking
constantly for updates to their programs or face the possibility of
being compromised.

2. In Ubuntu, when anything wants to install, you have to key in your
password. With Windows, you have to click on "OK" or nothing at all as
is evidenced by drive by malware. Unlike Windows, the Linux kernel is
not intertwined with a browser like Windows is with Internet Explorer
and the kernel is kept away and protected from the user account.

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X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8050.1202

Not my post.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Karmic Krapware: "the BEST advertising Microsoft could ask for"

Karmic Krapware: 6 serious problems, "deeply unimpressed... Hell no I
won't recommend it to friends"

Karmic Krapware: "STINKS ON ICE.... worst release yet... many crashes"

Karmic Krapware: "it's a huge disappointment"

Karmic Krapware victim: "so frustrating...almost zero trust in
Canonical...Windows 7 for the win"

Karmic Krapware: "hell to upgrade... daily fatal freezes...a real mess"

Ref: comp.os.linux.advocacy

Some reference.

Alias

 

[Kevin John SmallBone]

You are grasping at straws you IDIOT. That link is 3 years old and that is
all you can come up with? HA HA HA HA


Windows 7 will be king.

Ubuntu is and will always be SHIT.

Get over it

 

[Kevin John SmallBone]

So what happened to jaunty jackelope hmm? What is next, languishing
lilacs?

I believe their next version of that INFERIOR OS will be called Spicy
Sphincter.

 

[Kevin John SmallBone]

Alias is voted a*hole of the Year.

STAN is voted most retarded computer user of the decade. STAN can't even
figure out how to fix his PCs clock. What a DOPE.

Must be on drugs.

 

[Canuck57]

So what happened to jaunty jackelope hmm? What is next, languishing lilacs?

Obsolete, like Vista.

You starting to hear an echo in hear? It sure is etting kinda quiet.
I prefer a newsgroup forum but must admit, the new Windows 7 forums are
very nice without all the BS...

I am sure it is cultured to worship Microsoft and hide the true fealings
of Windows 7 being regurgitated Vista.

I guess MVP (Microsoft Vista Pusher) get replaced with the tredmill of
certs of MWP (Microsoft Worshiping Pinhead).

Turn the lights out when your done.

Alsways do. Haven't been in the server room for 4 months, no need to it
runs Linux. Access it remote. Vista though, still getting frenzies of
patches.

 

[Alias]

You are grasping at straws you IDIOT. That link is 3 years old and that
is all you can come up with? HA HA HA HA

You're replying to the impostor, speaking of idiots.

Windows 7 will be king.

Burger King?

Ubuntu is and will always be SHIT.

You're ill informed and biased opinion.

Get over it

Over what that you post lies here every day? You're the one that needs
to get over that, holmes.

Alias

 

[Kevin John SmallBone]

INLINE:

and you can download the new Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10 from
http://www.ubuntutard.com/ and it's free and comes with access to
thousands of free shitty programs!

What you can do with Ubuntu:

Not much.

Email

MS-DOS can email.

Surf the web

MS-DOS can surf the web.

Burn CDs.

With junk quality burning software.

Rip CDs.

Mostly rip-off copyrighted CDs is more like it.

Listen to music using the computer.

Windows 95 can do that, Windows 3.1 for that matter.

Watch vidoes/DVDs.

Ha! *Maybe* watch a movie.

Scan and print.

If the printer drivers are compiled into the kernel. Even then you probably
will have to give up some of the printers features and functionality.

Spreadsheets.

In second rate spreadsheet programs.

Presentations

In second rate presentation programs.

Newsgroups.

From the quality of your posts this is a dubious boast on your part.

HTML editing.

Notepad can do that.

Games like Chess, Tetris, all kinds of solitaire, etc.

Cheesy flat games that smack of the Windows 3.1 days. Let's face it, if you
want to game, get Windows or an XBox.

Make videos.

Sure sure .. again with second rate stuff .. good luck.

Download photos from a camera and organize them.

Again, good luck. 'Hope the camera drivers are there.

Translations from one language to another.

Just visit Google dot com for that. A computer running Windows 95 can
achieve the same.

Use a dictionary program that's much faster than using a book

See immediately above.

Learn how to touch type with a touch type learning program.

You're kidding, right?

Edit images.

Let me guess, Gimp? It's almost pathetic how outdated it is. However Gimp
the one and only image editing software generally available to the Linux
crowd.

Send and receive a fax.

Windows 95 can do that.

Take screenshots.

You mean Linux implements the Prt Scr key? So did Windows 95.

Create .PDF files.

Up-to-date .PDF files?? Maybe.

Create and use a data base.

MySQL anyone? Sorry, but Microsoft database software is superior.

Instant messaging with over 10 different programs in one including
Windows Live Messenger.
IRC.
Bluetooth.

Linux only implements messaging so you can first ask each other how to get
things to work with Linux and then cry on each others shoulders when you
find you can't.

and much more!

Yes, typical distros of Linux come with thousands of half-baked alpha-ware
quality junk that passes as "software".

What you can't do with Ubuntu:

Worry about:

Bull. There's lots to worry about with UNIX and UNIX clones such as Linux.

WPA and WGA raising their ugly heads,

Not likely if you don't steal your software.

DRM,

or steal your music. Even then it is easily circumvented by not using DRM'd
music.

Viruses,

Don't be so sure.

Root kits,

UNIX and UNIX clones such as Linux are the origin of the term "rooted" LOL

Spyware,

No?


and
Malware.

Sure sure. Linux is riddled with vulnerabilities. The errata List for RedHat
Linux (a premier distro) is as long as my arm and then some.

The reasons that Ubuntu is more secure than Windows are twofold:

The only security in Linux is its obscurity.

1. When *anything* in Ubuntu needs updating or patching, it all comes
from the same source and a little orange star appears when any updates
or patches are available. It's a known fact that anti virus apps and

Linux distros will often have lousy patch systems. Ubuntu's is probably not
all that great seeing as they've never come up with a good one for any UNIX
or UNIX clone such as Linux.

anti malware apps can only deal with nasties that are known, not the new
ones. Hence, it is very important to be updated or patched and not just
the operating system but everything that is installed on the computer.
Windows has no central updating source and the user has to be checking
constantly for updates to their programs or face the possibility of
being compromised.

With ten zillion different distros out there and countless Linux libraries,
there's no "central updating source" in Linux. Whereas Microsoft does have a
centralized updating system for its software.

2. In Ubuntu, when anything wants to install, you have to key in your

Bull.


password. With Windows, you have to click on "OK" or nothing at all as
is evidenced by drive by malware. Unlike Windows, the Linux kernel is
not intertwined with a browser like Windows is with Internet Explorer
and the kernel is kept away and protected from the user account.

Bull, because it is Windows 7 that has the modern security system, not
Linux. With Windows 7's version of UAC, many if not all privileges problems
are completely solved. With Linux's ancient system, it's the old problematic
"either / or" security system .. where one is either root or user.

 

[Alias]

INLINE:





Not much.

Speak for yourself. Oh, you ARE speaking for yourself and lying with
ever word.

MS-DOS can email.

A lot of people use a computer for email so it's important to have.

MS-DOS can surf the web.

A lot of people use a computer to surf the web so it's important to
have. The difference is it's much safer with Ubuntu than with Windows.

With junk quality burning software.

False. Brasero is far superior to Nero.

Mostly rip-off copyrighted CDs is more like it.

Not what was written but you are famous for trotting out straw men
because you can't refute the issue at hand. Old, lame trick.

Windows 95 can do that, Windows 3.1 for that matter.

A lot of people use a computer to listen to music so it's important to have.

Ha! *Maybe* watch a movie.

No maybe about it.

If the printer drivers are compiled into the kernel. Even then you probably
will have to give up some of the printers features and functionality.

HP has provided Linux with a control panel, one you've obviously never seen.

In second rate spreadsheet programs.
False.



In second rate presentation programs.
False.



From the quality of your posts this is a dubious boast on your part.

LOL! Look who's talking!

Notepad can do that.

And so can many other programs. Your point?

Cheesy flat games that smack of the Windows 3.1 days. Let's face it, if you
want to game, get Windows or an XBox.

Try OpenArena, a full game where you would never, ever win in any mode
but beginner.

Sure sure .. again with second rate stuff .. good luck.

How would you know, being as you've never used Ubuntu to make videos?

Again, good luck. 'Hope the camera drivers are there.

Depends on the camera.

Just visit Google dot com for that. A computer running Windows 95 can
achieve the same.

Not a web dictionary. More proof you know nothing about Ubuntu.

See immediately above.

You too.

You're kidding, right?

Of course not. Some people hunt and peck. Smart people teach themselves
to touch type using a program.

Let me guess, Gimp? It's almost pathetic how outdated it is. However Gimp
the one and only image editing software generally available to the Linux
crowd.

There have been three new versions of GIMP since you claimed to have
installed Ubuntu. We don't believe you.

Windows 95 can do that.

A lot of people use a computer for faxing so it's important to have.

You mean Linux implements the Prt Scr key? So did Windows 95.

It has a program that does a lot more than that and, once again, you
prove you know nothing about Ubuntu.

Up-to-date .PDF files?? Maybe.

No maybe about it but you would have know something about Ubuntu and you
obviously don't.

MySQL anyone? Sorry, but Microsoft database software is superior.

You would have to use Open Office's data base program to form an opinion
and we all know you never have.

Linux only implements messaging so you can first ask each other how to get
things to work with Linux and then cry on each others shoulders when you
find you can't.

Maybe that's what you would use it for but the rest of us don't.

Yes, typical distros of Linux come with thousands of half-baked alpha-ware
quality junk that passes as "software".




Bull. There's lots to worry about with UNIX and UNIX clones such as Linux.

Keep telling yourself that lie.

Not likely if you don't steal your software.

Really? Then why does Microsoft have a special forum and a special tool
for those who got false positives?

or steal your music. Even then it is easily circumvented by not using DRM'd
music.

You're clueless as usual.

Don't be so sure.

We're sure.

UNIX and UNIX clones such as Linux are the origin of the term "rooted" LOL

But Windows is the OS that has HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of machines in net
bots and there isn't one single Linux machine in a bot. Proof is in the
pudding and all that jazz.

Sure sure. Linux is riddled with vulnerabilities. The errata List for
RedHat
Linux (a premier distro) is as long as my arm and then some.

Name me one malware in the wild that's infecting Linux machines.

The only security in Linux is its obscurity.

Keep telling yourself that.

Linux distros will often have lousy patch systems. Ubuntu's is probably not
all that great seeing as they've never come up with a good one for any UNIX
or UNIX clone such as Linux.

Name me one malware in the wild that's infecting Linux machines.

With ten zillion different distros out there and countless Linux libraries,
there's no "central updating source" in Linux. Whereas Microsoft does
have a
centralized updating system for its software.

Name me one malware in the wild that's infecting Linux machines.

Truth.



Bull, because it is Windows 7 that has the modern security system, not
Linux. With Windows 7's version of UAC, many if not all privileges problems
are completely solved. With Linux's ancient system, it's the old
problematic
"either / or" security system .. where one is either root or user.

Windows 7 and Vista's UAC is a direct copy of Linux.

Now, why don't you bugger off to the Windows 7 web forum and tell them
all how safe they are?

Alias