A Checklist.
Is Linux the OS for you? Answer the following questions to find out:
- The thought of downloading my OS from a web page gets my juices flowing.
- Cryptic text streaming past my eyes on startup excites me.
- I know what one of the following means:
- apt-get
- rpm
- I like my icons big and ugly.
- Selecting the correct device driver from a long list gets me hot and bothered.
- Waiting for language kits to download is what computing is all about!
- I believe that free == better quality.
- I prefer KDE over Gnome.
- I prefer Gnome over KDE.
- I know what Gnome and KDE are.
If you answered yes to any of the above, then Linux is for you. Don’t hate me.
Geek Battle Themes: The Abbreviated and Diminutive #joiito List.
The question: Okay, what are some long standing or classic geek battles. The answers:
- Mac vs. PC: The never ending battle.
- Closed-Source vs. Open-Source software (OSS): The battle. Some contestants.
- Mouse vs. Trackball in Gaming: Never knew people fought over this. The War. Quote: You gotta be some kind of twisted @!#& to use a trackball especially for FPS.
- Vi vs Emacs: Vi Pages - the Holy War of Editors. Quote: This question is an endless source for the religious war on editor bashing.
- Firewire vs. USB: This one seems pretty straight forward. Comparison.
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) vs. Command Line Interface (CLI): GUI vs. CLI: A Qualitative Comparison - OSNews.com
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) vs. Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC): Ars Technica: RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era - Page 1 - (10/1999) :: This war is over. I think.
- Zettabyte File System (ZFS) vs. Hierarchical File System (HFS Plus/+): Recording Artist: Don’t be a ZFS Hater
- Kirk vs. Picard: Kirk. To disagree, get your own effing blog. Links:
- Official Star Trek Event, Powered by FanLib
- 100 Reason Kirk is better than Picard :: Kirk never drinks tea. Ever.
- The Video. Kirk’s “Phasers” vs. Picard’s “Suggestions” Kirk FTW!
- Everything else vs. CamelCase: Discussion.
Something to think about: Personal Choice Elevated To Moral Imperative
11. [Bonus] I miss Mac OS 6
could be rewritten as:
11b. [extra bonus points] I always wondered what a beta version of MacOS 6, with debug trace on, looked like on a colour screen.
Hmmm… answered yes to quite a few of the “Is Linux for you?” questions, but for some reason I prefer a Mac running OS X. Oh yeah, because it’s hard to get any work done when you’re all hot & bothered!
^_^
Apparently you’ve never used the latest distro. It’s guaranteed to send Stevie boy into a conniption. It’s called iLinux.