Linux: The Reliability Myth Debunked
Friends,
If you ask a liberal, ?Why Linux?, he will tell you ?Because it’s Free… free like Love, Freedom and Beer?. Isn’t that the philosophy that got our nation into so much trouble during the permissive years? Surprisingly the liberal minority have not yet grasped that none of the above are or ever should be free, and yet for years they tried to spread the Linux freedom myth.
Last month, the Microsoft corporation revealed that they own most, if not all of the patents in the Linix Program. This means that we have more reason than ever to doubt the Linux “Freedom” claims so as you might expect - the tricky Europeans responsible for Linux have had to plot a new strategy. Recently the Linux mafia has developed a new strategy, and it’s actually one that is starting to make sense to business: They claim that it’s more reliable.
These Europeans regretted their plans to fly budget on Air-Linux. The Linux computer which controlled the navigation system crashed, leaving the pilot flying blind. We can see the distinctive Yellow-Penguin logo which is visible, a feature that Linus Torvalds personally added to the crash-screen to make you feel good about systems failure.
?Is it true?, my clients ask, ?Is Linux more reliable than windows? Is it true that it never crashes and runs faster on a 386 than Vista does on a Pentium 4?. Well of course not ? unfortunately many people have fallen prey to yet another liberal myth, which today we at STR.com will have the pleasure of debunking.
“Honey, how come you’re home so early?”… “It’s because the store Linux computer crashed and we couldnt sell our special offers. They made us all redundant, and now we gotta go on welfare because of that Computer.” - Linux computers cause unemployment, and raise taxes!
The fact is that Linux gives the impression of reliability because it doesn’t do a whole lot. The Linux system of today is virtually unchanged from the Linux system of ten years ago, so they’ve had plenty of time to sweep their bugs under the carpet. Lacking many of the modern features of operating systems like Windows Vista, the Linuxers have no right to be smug. The fact is that their product crashes all the time.
Eastern Europeans at a computer hacker conference. They are planning what viruses should be included with the next version of Linux. Linux crashes, even for these ultra-leftist linux zealots. They tried to supress this photo for fear that it might undermine their tatcics, however STR.com is prepared to take the risk, despite death-threats from avid Linux fans.
Linux has a long way to go before it’s ready for the desktop, but a surprising number of organisations have ?experimented? with it for embedded systems. As when liberals ?experiment? with hard-drugs, the results can often be surreal, embarrassing and often life-threatening.
This may look like a typical Linux user’s desktop, however it’s actually yet another crash. How many people died as a result of this system failure? Linux developers dont care. Unlike Microsoft, they have no EULA which guarantees a high quality of service.
Europe, the spiritual home of Communism and Linux is a sorry tale of Linux addiction. A large French company, which many years ago was a credible rival to Boeing, is almost bankrupt because of Linux. Their new air-liner Isn’t selling, and doesn’t look like it will ever take off, for the simple reason that it has the non FAA Certified Linux on board. Next time you hear of an European plane that plunges into a glacier, fjord or perhaps even the Eiffel Tour ? you can bet Linux is at fault.
“Quick, Call the Cops - it’s an Emergency”… “Oh no… this Linux based telephone has crashed, and I’m going to be beaten up by terrorists”. Unfortunately this is an every day occurence in Europe thanks to their unreliable choice of operating system.
We at STR.com urge America not to believe the hype. Everybody knows that Linux is an operating system built by Russian and North Korean hackers with the backing of the islamofascist government of Iran. Are these the sort of people we can trust with our computers?
Yours in Christ,
Tristan J. Shuddery
God Bless America! How right you are Tristan. let’s nuke those ruskies!
Indeed. The evil Linuxempire shall Fall, and Rise shall the glory of EULA-protected Crapware!
/greetings from scandinavia ;)
Come on, here is what a typical linux desktop looks like.
http://adrenochromo.it/immagini/galleria/ubuntu01.png
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the “blue screen of death” often displayed when Winblows crashes in your little video store example?
http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/Windows_XP_BSOD.png
The image on the screen in your example is pretty fuzzy, but it looks pretty similar….
Thanks so much :) I now have like 50 people around me, just laughing.. The whole IT department, at least!
Seeing a console (that means: only text) in Linux doesn’t mean a crash, it is just not hidden as in Windows.
By the way: I never saw any bluescreen under any Linux.. Looks pretty much like Windows made your featured employee go home earlier :P
I’ve been reading STR.com for a while now and am quite amazed for what you guys are able to write about. I’ve also tried to reveil wheter you are a hoax or for real, but I’m still not able to distinguish. If this is a joke why continue year after year, but this site is sincere your so called evidence are too thin and your opinions just too scary.
As a university student I learn that when I put forward a claim I must always document it from research and/or referre to my sources.
Where are yours to claim that “Unfortunately this is an every day occurence in Europe thanks to their unreliable choice of operating system”
i just wish I was intelligent enough to properly understand your arguments. I shall have to go and pray jesus for bigger brains.
The first picture is not a navigation system but an in-flight entertainment system. It’s not a crash screen but a boot-screen by the way. Judging your explanation it appears to me that you have never booted linux or flown with an airplane.
Second screenshot is a Windows Bluescreen of Death. Windows as in Microsoft Windows.
Third one: nobody is trying to supress anything. Don’t make up stories to make yourself look tough.
Fifth one: again a Windows BSOD, it seems to me.
Can’t wait to see your next attempt to thrash Linux. You’re getting worse every time :-)
I’m so stupid it hurts!!!! I just don’t understand that the words you say are God’s truth. I wish i wasn’t so dumb!
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kill_u a GNU/linux user from Bulgaria
He he he.
Tristan is allways as ignorant about computers :-D
Just for fun, here is a start point for a list of stupidities in this article (sorry, I cannot make it exhostive without copy-pasting the whole article) :
- Microsoft didn’t reveal anything, it just launched a new FUD about linux. Just like last time this happens (another company did exactly the same a few years ago), they give any evidence, even though they have acces to the whole linux source code.
- Linux has allways been claimed to be more reliable, nothing new.
- The first image is not a crash screen, it is a boot screen.
- Linux/unix can do much more than windows on a small machine. For exemple : web server, mail server, file server, DNS, DHCP and ssh/scp on a 233MHz P2 machine with 32Mo of ram. Up&running non stop for nearly 3 years now.
- second image is a windows screen (don’t seem to be a kernel panic though).
- about the capacity of Linux, give me an exemple of what windows can do, that linux can’t (this exclude windows only applications from third party vendors, focus on the OS).
- third and fourth images definitly don’t look like crash screens.
- Airbus do have serious problems. But it is more a political/human problem than a technical problem. Linux has nothing to do with this.
- last image : woops, a windows kernel panic ! Is it so hard to find a linux KP screenshot ?
- I didn’t know that berkley, the MIT and some others were controled by russian an north korean hackers …
Come on, Tristan, stop thinking you are able to talk about computers : you know nothing !
I can’t check it right now, but last time (a few weeks ago) I did, shelleyTheRepubilcan was hosted on a linux ….
Yea ! the great nation of dumbfuckistan strikes back again !
Tristan u r my personal hero& idol !
thank you for this article, it made my day…..
i think you are the darling of the nursing stuff in your insane asylum.
I can?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t check it right now, but last time (a few weeks ago) I did, shelleyTheRepubilcan was hosted on a linux ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?.
This is false. We run Wordpress.Net, the commerical version of Wordpress which only runs on Windows 2003 Server’s excellent ASP.net environment.
It’s true there was a time when we ran Linux, however as soon as Shelley discovered that we had been hosting on a communist software platform I insisted that we switch to Windows and fire our old webmaster.
Yours in Christ,
Tristan
So many lies.
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/supermarket.jpg I can recognize Windows blue screen of death :D
Please, Tristan, could you give me a link where a can purchase this beautifull wordpress.net, because the credits on the bottom of STR.com only link to the normal wordpress page - where you can donwload wordpress.. for free :D
How dare you to change my comment??? This really makes me mad, but your action confirms my opinion of you americans.
I repeat what I tried to say earlier:
[profanity deleted]
> This is false. We run Wordpress.Net, the commerical version of Wordpress which only runs on Windows 2003 Server?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s excellent ASP.net environment.
Link please. I could not find anything about this windows only, asp version.
The link at the bottom of the page talks about a wordpress running with PHP and mySQL …
You are not credible at all, but once again, nothing new.
[threats to hack our servers deleted]
[hacker talk removed by request of the FBI]
Commercial version of Wordpress, indeed…
Oh dear,
Tristan blamed himself again!
Everyone can see it! lool
“http://www.shelleytherepublican.com was running Apache on Linux when last queried at 16-May-2006 17:12:46 GMT”
Wich is about 3 weeks after they claimed they was running on Windows server 2003
Why dont you just admit it, your knowledge about computers are on the same level as a rotten piece of bread?
M??¢‚Ǩ¬¢tte dere alle brenne, Hilsen Mr.X
[hacker talk removed by request of the FBI]
*rofl*
hum ….
Now, I’m carefull, I copy all my posts before posting them.
So, here are my so-called “threats to hack”.
I anyone could help me to find a threat in it, I would be gracefull.
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About your host, my OS detection tools sees a Linux.
Therefore, there are three possibilities :
- your machine runs linux
- your machine is virtualised, probably on an ESX server, wich is linux-base
- there is a proxy after your machine running linux
Whatever, there is a linux in the run.
What about the blue screen of death that you presents as linux crash, whereas it is a windows crash ?
and my hacker talk.
If the FBI did lost time worying about it, then I wonder who protects the USA ….
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Certainly not me. I hate America! I am the enemy of freedom!
:-D
[hacker talk removed by request of the FBI]
HAHA!!!!!
If the FBI would do anything about this site, they would first laugh of it, then close it for beeing so damn stupid
M??¢‚Ǩ¬¢tte dere alle brenne, Hilsen Mr.X
These Linux-Bastards! Now they also stole the Windows Bluescreen of Death! How dare they!?
I just wish I had the brains to keep up with the rest of your arguments Tristan!
I have juste seen this on netcraft.com :
We have been requested not to report on the site shelleytherepublican.com
It seems str has something to hide …
too bad, I’ll have to wait ’til this evening (in France) to perform an OS detection on str (which has absolutly nothing to do with hacking).
What do you think about BSD that was developed from AT&T Unix at University of California, Berkeley and thus it has american origin and is very capable OS for Workstation and servers alike. some of its development even got funds from DAPRA.
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare
already to challange our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our
country.”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1816 (quoted in Lawrence Goodwyn’s book The Populist Moment)
Great article, congratulations. I saw some of your pictures before, maybe you should mention your sources.
http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/2006/10/linux_crash_top.html
And here are the Windows ones:
http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/2006/10/blue_screen_of_.html
my post concerning the FBI was modified (as usual …)
I post it once again :
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and my hacker talk.
If the FBI did lost time worying about it, then I wonder who protects the USA ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?.
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Just for fun : try replacing the .aspx of the adress by .php ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?
GOSH, IT WORKS !!!!!
Now, try replacing it with anything ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?. let?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s say .sqmskjd
WOW, it works too !
Could it be possible that str is trying to fool us ?
May they be liars ? :-D
Tristan, thanks again for telling that hard truths that noboby wants to hear. If we’re gonna win this War on Terror then we gotta do it with American products using American technology made by Americans. Like you said before - all them holes in Linux is gonna allow terrorists to take control of our computers and…well, I’d hate to think what could happen.
Thanks for doing your part to keep America safe!
One more thing :
[more incomprehensible hacker jargon removed]
Tristan, How can you explain this if it is an asp version of wordpress ?
“Thanks for doing your part to keep America safe!”
No, i would say “thank you for doing your part to keep America ignorant, stupid and partly insane…”
M??¢‚Ǩ¬¢tte dere alle brenne, Hilsen Mr.X
how do you do this? your ideas are simply ridiculous.
Please do note, that Wordpress is licenced under the GPL. Thats the same licence Linux is under! That GPL software and communism go hand in hand has been said more than once. Mostly people forget mentioning, that the licence was actually invented by americans. I would like to mention that hamburgers are communism to, every one can download a recipe and add virii to it ;)
Also note that there is no commercial version of the software Wordpress. All you get is commercial Wordpress hosting from whoever (ie. wordpress.com) the software still belongs to all of us.
Have you noticed, that wordpress.net gets redirected to wordpress.org (obviously a communism stronghold)?
“Thanks so much :) I now have like 50 people around me, just laughing.. The whole IT department, at least!”
So Marc, your are surfing while working. People like you are the reason that our economy is going to hell!
Excuse me, but i have NEVER seen a blue screen on a Linux screen. The pictures are small enough to be unreadable, but i highly expect these to be NOT pictures of a crashed linux but just FUD against Linux.
Tristan, I have asked you before to come to lecture in one of my computer science classes. My students are simply dying to meet you. You would be made very welcome here in South-West France, I might even pay your ticket, only economy, I’m afraid. Let me know.
(Sammy, just off to Antibes for the weekend again, you have the address, I await the Unit with great pleasure)
You are liars and scum. The picture from the DVD store is a windows crash. If you look sharply, you can read “The device driver got stuck in an infinite loop”. Now if you search on google for that phrase, you will very quickly find out, that this message is only mentioned with windows crash stories.
So stop spreading your lies and bullshit.
Oh, and for the other blue screen. It is really hard to read, but i really wonder which linux crashes due to components with an .exe extension. So this one is Windows either.
I wonder if my comments will be made visible after all (as they are vocal about your lies), because they are now “awaiting moderation”. Lets see if you have the balls to acknowledge your lies.
Hans, take off the bombs under your short pants, stop hating America and get to church!
It’s funny that you try to make up a commercial version of wordpress, based on .net and even edit a theme to cover that up.
as for your http daemon, it’s apache which is a product of the open source community (Apache/1.3.33 Server at AppStuff Port 80), or are you going to edit the version reply too so it says internet information services v6.0? :)
good job with the .htaccess though
Oh, i actually don’t hate america. I only despise was bush and his ganster buddies are doing to the world. But i guess a lot of us citizens are with me on that one. Oh, and i hate the american idea of having to rule the world.
But i fail to see how this is related to the topic at all. Significant parts of linux have been created in the US (and significant parts of Windows outside of the US).
I also don’t have any problem acknowledging that even Linux systems fails from time to time. Using linux for business purposes since over 10 years, i’ve seen a lot of crap both on windows on linux. But after all linux is still a lot more stable than windows, and even dozens of real or fake screeshots of crashed linuxes gonna change this.
And after all a lot of crashes on both operating systems can be attributed to crappy hardware.
again, here is the censored hacker jargon :
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For those who know HTML, have a look at the code of this page
Each internal links and the actions of each forms are … php scripts !
For those not familira with html source code, clic the login link on the
right, and check the URL : it is php.
Tristan, How can you explain this if it is an asp version of wordpress ?
And, Tristan, could you possibly explain to your readers why liberals like me are so stupid and why we hate Jesus so much?
the liberal minority
You mean the minority that has been dicovered to be a majority in the last elections?
Linux being more reliable than Windows can be true or false regarding on which computer you run both. I?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•ve got a Dell-PC and Linux is way more stabile and reliable than Win XP ever was.
The fact is that their product crashes all the time.
If Linux crashes all the time, then Windows is just one huge crash.:)
Europe, the spiritual home of Communism and Linux is a sorry tale of Linux addiction. A large French company, which many years ago was a credible rival to Boeing, is almost bankrupt because of Linux. Their new air-liner Isn?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t selling, and doesn?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t look like it will ever take off, for the simple reason that it has the non FAA Certified Linux on board. Next time you hear of an European plane that plunges into a glacier, fjord or perhaps even the Eiffel Tour ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¨ you can bet Linux is at fault.
The name is Airbus. And they?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•re still in business. Truth is, their new A380 has experienced several bugs in the design and thus the program is beyond schedule. Problems with the construction, not with the computers!
?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?Quick, Call the Cops - it?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s an Emergency?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ??¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ? ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?Oh no?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ? this Linux based telephone has crashed, and I?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥m going to be beaten up by terrorists?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?. Unfortunately this is an every day occurence in Europe thanks to their unreliable choice of operating system.
1. No terrorists here.
2. Our Telephones run perfectly smooth without omputers.
3. Don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t make up wrong facts.
@Tessa: Yeah, that?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s a BSOD. Experienced it with Windows almost every day. I know it.
That one?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s good:
http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/WindowsLiveWriter/LinuxCrashTop10Images_A04C/linux_bonus_12_2.jpg
If we?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥re gonna win this War on Terror then we gotta do it with American products using American technology made by Americans.
I salute you on your courage, Billy. Never seen someone marcing into his doom that deliberately.
@Swip: He could be surfing in his breaks. I may do that, too. You just have to ask your employer politely.
Hans, take off the bombs under your short pants, stop hating America and get to church!
I think Hans is like me from Germany. We don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t need bombs in our pants. We have better stuff. And it does not seem like he hates the USA. He just hates people trying to lie to him. And church is on Sunday here in Germany.
@Sammy: Hey, where?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s your Unit? The cowards are not coming, are they?
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
Looks like it’s another big success for poor old Tristan! Tristan, why do you keep doing this to yourself?
I love?Ǭ¨?¢‚Ǩ¬†Jesus so much there are?Ǭ¨?¢‚Ǩ¬†days when all?Ǭ¨?¢‚Ǩ¬†I can do is weep with joy!?Ǭ¨?¢‚Ǩ¬†
Helmet : they don’t have enough knowledge to use a .htacccess file (i don’t think they know what it is).
You can add anything after the dot, wordpress do not use it.
Dear Tristan,
I work for a computer science research institute and I can confidently contend that over the last decade I have followed the trends, fads, competitions, successes, failures, etc., of anything broadly relevant to IT and/or computer science. And naturally I have read a couple books on the history of computer science that you have apparently never heard of (i.e. *any* book on the history of computer science). I admit I have unfortunately lost many hours of my life reading through slashdot posts, as well as various other IT-related (and unrelated) blog sites. That being said, till today I have never taken part (posted) because the threads often have a terrible tendency of becoming quickly personal and juvenile; and thereby exceedingly diverge from the normally initial formidable topic, usually resulting in frivolous discussion, or merely acute insults (I’m always impressed how bold we become when we can hide behind a handle and fake email address). However, your articles were atrocious enough to finally motivate me, for the first time ever, to add my own two sense.
Tristan, you are treading in very dangerous waters here. Your title as “Technology & Business Correspondent” discredits all those whom, unlike yourself, are worthy of such a title. Without even touching upon your bizarre, falsely based and utterly construed political/religious beliefs, I politely ask you to stick to what you’re good at.
And what might this be you ask? Well for one, writing such ungrounded articles that you generate a wave of outraged bloggers who attack your lack of credible background research. This could have been your motive, so in that case congratulations. Though we owe you a “thanks” as well cause every now and then we need a good laugh at work. Course if this is your motive, my, you must have a lot more free time than I am able to schedule into my life. Unfortunately, it would take me the better part of a day to address how many false claims you posted ~ and that would only touch on the technical issues, nevermind your other argumentative blunders. Plus it seems as if plenty of experts have already proved your ignorance regardless.
For two, you’re a fantastic spin artist. And since one can never doubt the stupidity of people in large groups (or however the saying goes), this unfortunately works - ref. the past six years, perhaps most embarrassing term in the history of United States politics. Kudos to your biased articles that reference your other biased articles “If you don?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t believe ME, read this review WE did a few months back.” Or basing claims on the “STR Fact File” (whatever the hell that is~) And using titles like ” Linux and Windows Compared: The Facts” - Absolute classics! Even shadows Fox News!
And although it is unfair to judge you on the basis of a few articles you so naively published on this ridiculous site, it seems to me that this is where the short list of “what you’re good at” runs out. You made one fatal error - write all the false, ungrounded political bulls**t you like, but as soon as you attempt to touch on the field of IT/computer science, beware! It’s a very protected territory. And after reading your articles it is quite clear that this ain’t your turf. You don’t belong and you ain’t welcome.
On the bright side, I guess I am indebted to you for my “blogging premiere”~
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And for those of you as entertained as I was when I read Tristan’s imaginary history of operating systems, check out his other fantastic tales from his own enlightened IT world:
[1] http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/20/linux-a-european-threat-to-our-computers-by-tristan.aspx
[2] http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/10/06/linux-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-cheat-cheat-cheat.aspx#comment-13637
[3] http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/05/03/linux-and-windows-compared-the-facts.aspx
[4] http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/12/01/linux-the-reliability-myth-debunked.aspx#comments
Please consider this as a response to all of the above posts
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Wait?! Linux crashes?! I’ve never seen that happen before… but I’ve seen Windows crash lots of times. I’ve even seen entire rooms of Windows machines crashing (real life entire room of XP computers crashing at once, not that photoshop image that goes around). MS’s EULA does not have guarantees for the consumer, just for Microsoft.
Please Note: Many AMERICAN companies have contributed to Linux
Yep, i’m actually from germany (but Hans isn’t my real name…). As i said, i don’t hate the USA. It’s just that i don’t like them (or at least their politics) very much, either :-) But as already said, the question if this posting is FUD against linux has nothing to do with the USA.
To be clear on that point: I know that there are lots of rotten parts in linux as well (but it gets better, and linux certainly seems to evolve much faster in emerging technologies than windows). There is nothing wrong with pointing out the shortcomings of Linux. But stay to the truth, don’t try to disguise windows crashes as linux ones and everything is fine.
It isn’t true that Linux does not stink. But Windows stinks more. :-)
This is boring : it seems the str members have no more stupidities to answer me, all my posts are replaced with stupid sentences ….
I hate those methodes? You suck, str members !
If linux crash, it doesn’t show a blue screen, for that reason this crash is in windows.
Linux is developed in several countries around the world, including u.s.
Thanks a lot, man, just too funny :D
I find it amusing how your article actually prove that Linux is more stable than Windows. As someone already mentioned earlier the in flight pictures with tux does not indicate a linux crash. It’s the proprietary and closed source in flight entertainment system which have crashed, not Linux itself. Linux cannot be blamed for this crash, Its probably the fault of the Airbus (or whoever developed it for Airbus) software developers (btw, to my knowledge none American plane manufacturer have developed such an advanced in flight entertainment system as Airbus has, am i right?) If the Linux machine on the plane was running any other services those would continue to run without problems.
Image 2 and 5 clearly shows a unrecoverable error messages from Windows also known as BSOD’s. I cant be sure about the 3rd image. To be able to judge whether it shows a crashed Linux system. In my opinion it’s showing completely normal output from the Linux console. It’s impossible to draw any conclusions based on the 4th image. I can remember seeing several similar images when DOS crashed on my years back.
To get rid of a windows BSOD you will have to hard reboot the entire system causing you to loose all unsaved data and possible also cause filesystem corruption. All other services running on the Windows machine would also suffer from downtime during the reboot (and possible chkdsk). To restore the operation of the in flight entertainment system on Linux only a simple command to start it have to be issued. No other services provided by the Linux system have been interrupted at any point.
STR is definitely running on linux and Tristans attempt to cover it up are becoming more and more hilarious. In addition to all the references to php in the html source the response headers for the site shows “Server: Apache” I know of none serious ISP’s who runs apache on a Windows server and even if they did it’s still impossible to use aspx with apache. So in any case. Tristans claim is false.
Dear Tristan,
you can write about christianity, politics, ethics, culture. But do not try to say something about computers. Because you are totaly unqualified, uneducated. Computer science is more exact than ordinary subjects you are accustomed to.
So as other articles about linux you wrote, this one is also full of lies and half-truths. As a proof you showed us two crashed windows and two booting(starting) linuxes and something unidentifiable.
It is true that there are differences. And linux is not bugless and without problems. But more important then it is free is that it is OPEN. Open to study, open to improve, open to fix, open for everyone to participate at any level of development. So importatnt technological decisions can be reviewed by more people then microsoft can ever employ. Because its deep roots in computer practice, Unix and linux is on our schools(universities) basis for all IT/CS students.
And if you can find something that proves linux has something to do with any political ideology… I will.. maybe stop using it(and return to paper and pencil).
As final word i must say that i read a lot articles criticising linux but they had more accurate arguments. So you should try harder. God does not like half-done work. You could ask in discussion if you dont know/understand something.. it is no shame.
Hi Tristan,
it is me again. I find out that form for sending replies on this page on http://www.shelleytherepublican.com has php file as ACTION atribute in its FORM tag. So it is highly probable that it runs on PHP scripting typical for linux/apache then for windows/iis/asp. Could you explain it?. It simply mean that replies from this form is send for processing to PHP script. As i know Microsoft does not support PHP. Although some links refer to aspx files.
Maybe you should talk to your webmaster again. I doubt that i am the first who have noticed it.
nice to see you still rile people up the most when you bash linux
more lies about linux, again
the first image is a boot screen
the second image is a blue screen of death, a feature only windows can provide
the third is a registry dump, not a crash
the forth is a random mix of characters
the fifth is completely unreadeable
btw
you don’t even know what eula is or says
wordpress.net does not exist
tristan, your ignorance is insulting. you should really attend to some computer science history lessons
btw2
microsoft can’t own patents about linux simply because
-linux sources are available to everyone who wants to check for violations
-in europe software patents are not legal and i thank God for this every day
muahahahahahahahahahah…….. hahahahahahahaahhahaha……..*takes a deep breath*……… muahahahahahahahaaha…… oh nooooooo stop it, my butt hurts from laughing hahahahahahahahahaa
this is the most stupid and hilarious Linux bashing i’ve even read in my life… Linux rules the planet, from the International Space Station to gadgets like smart phones and other goodies…. wake up you dreamers, Linux is waaaaay better than Windows. Windows is the REAL cancer here, it’s a wide open door for viruses, hackers, spyware, you name it
anyway, thanks for the hilarious article, my girlfriend just went outside cause she can’t stop laughing here ROFLMAO
a lil tip for Tristan: Linux doesnt need a defragger cause its file systems are much more advanced and do not fragment file. THIS IS A FACT, if you ignore facts like this then you might also ignore that you’re alive (this is a reply to a previous comment you posted on the other article)
anyway, thanks again for the good laugh
Truls: Oh, Picture #3 actually shows some kind of linux crash. To be exact it shows a kernel oops, but unlinke Windows Linux continues to work after a kernel oops in most cases. So even when it crashed, Linux is superior to Windows.
Yeah and how about the graphical interface that Linux uses, named X-Windows? They stole it from Microsoft and put a X in front of the name. Very cheap trick, but Microsoft is already persecuting this thieves! Anyway just another patent theft by the Eastern European Linux Mafia.
@Swip
As i know X-Windows in version X11R6 was developed on MIT which is number one authority as CS/IT university in US and maybe worldwide. Furthermore, correct name is X Window System. MS has no patent over word “window” or “windows”(it would be against law, but i was studiing only authorship/industry law of our country). Finally if you can read, you will find lot of architectural differences between MS Windows and X11. If you try to accuse of patent theft find out which patent no. it is. Without it, discussion is irrelevant.
It is no proof if YOU recognize something similar to something else. It is no proof, testimony or fact of patent violation. It is only gossip.
Swip,
Breaks are essential for a good working-climate, especially when you can laugh about it! I’m even obliged to do these breaks, their are set up in my contract (and so in the contract of another 5000 employees). So, I don’t think this is why our economy goes down, yet making your team laugh together is good for the climate!
So: thank German Guy, you’re right ;)
And, my dear Swip, it is not called X-Windows but X-Window-Server, example: Gnome, KDE.. Furthermore: Microsoft got that idea with windows from Apple..
Yeah and how about the graphical interface that Linux uses, named X-Windows? They stole it from Microsoft and put a X in front of the name. Very cheap trick, but Microsoft is already persecuting this thieves! Anyway just another patent theft by the Eastern European Linux Mafia.
Erm… X-Windows has not much in common with MS Windows except for the similarity in name. Certainly not enough to convince a jury. And there is no “Linux Mafia” whatsoever. Especially no Eastern European one. Linux was developed by programmers from all over the world. And it really is better than Windows in every aspect save handling.
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
Hello.
Seriously you think that? it’s impossible that people really thinks that…
During long years, i used Microsoft Windows, and i can perfectly remember: A fatal exception OE has occurred… you remember?
So i decided to install another operating system, called openSUSE Linux, and since that i have no problems. Linux is free, whats the problem? with the free source code, people can edit the programs for his necessities…
PEOPLE: LINUX IS NOT BAD, LINUX IS VERY GOOD, SO ENTERPRISES STARTS TO USE THAT, OVERALL IN WEB SERVERS LIKE THIS.
If want unix-like OS you could also use the bsd’s
As Tristan will tell you, we use wordpress.net as an operating system.
Now you just run along down to Rick Warren’s BrokeSaddleBack Church and listen to him preach about how SATAN IS VERY GOOD.
Have fun in Hell, Sodomite.
God is Love!
“As Tristan will tell you, we use wordpress.net as an operating system.”
since when was wordpress a opreating system…
HAHA!!!! looser
M??¢‚Ǩ¬¢tte dere alle brenne, Hilsen Mr.X
“And, my dear Swip, it is not called X-Windows but X-Window-Server, example: Gnome”
So Lunixxers call their operating system after satanic creatures from hell?
Anyways Microsoft Windows was invented in 1993, X-Windows X11R6 in 1994, so do not tell me that eastern european hackers did not steal the idea of WINDOWS ™ from Microsoft (TM). By the way the same thing happened to Microsoft Office. Those crazy lunixers stole the great idea of a text editor and called it Open Office. Before that, those hackers used LATEX to write texts, which is a very primitive text editor. The name LATEX comes from the perverse parties they have all the time.
Dear Billy Bob,
wordpress.net is not operating system. It is domain name pointing to server. It is computer running some OS and offering some services like webpages. Specifically wordpress.net is a page of “WordPress - a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform”. They offering webhosting but there is no trace that they run on MS Windows. They mention PHP and mySQL instead which suggest that they are using Linux.
And your personal opinions about users(whose are argumenting against what you are saying) are irrelevant. If you don’t know this word, it means that what you are saying(about satan) has no affect on truth of statements about linux which contributors send to this discussion.
Do you know, that there is special distribution of linux focused on Christian community? It is Ubuntu Christian Edition. It has Bible texts in several translations in basic installation.
http://www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com/christianubuntu/2006/07/about-ubuntu-christian-edition.html
Office package, Parental access control(filter webpages of unwonted comercials, or other internet pollution) or Accounting program is also included.
You can see that linux is perfect ground to build any kind of comunnity project.(even this which can help to spread gospel). By the way, there is no linux(as i know) oriented to satanists.
“As Tristan will tell you, we use wordpress.net as an operating system.”
You’re writing random technical words in order to create an meaningless sentence.
Nice.
Vash, (I don’t even wanna guess where that name comes from), there ain’t nothing Christian about Linux. I don’t know you from Adam. I DO know Tristan and if Tristan (whose been doing IT for a little while now) tells me that Linux works against God and America then I’m gonna believe him.
I guess you’re talking about “Christian” Linux (which is about as dumb as saying “intelligent liberal”) as some kind of proof that it’s ok. Lemme just tell you that everyone thought Ted Haggerty was “ok”, too…and he turned out to be a gay.
And you think that Linux is communism? Hello! I am also a republican however, I do not base my fundamental beiefs on theorys that make no sense at all! Mam, what I am trying to tell you is to stop having an Acid Trip. Linux has never crashed on me, but Windows has miltiple times, and besides if you were a real genius, you would know that the developer of Linux was not russian, or uukoslamic! you would know that his name is Linus T., an american college student (well at the time) You would also know that linux doesnt terminate the Host when a program fails, and Linux dumps the memory when it has an error, instead of randomly restarting. You would also know that since Linux does not work of a Registry and does not run .exe files that share .DLL files, it is impossible to place a virus on Linux.
Also, you would have checked out this video:
Windows Crashes, even for Bill Gates!
And you need to calm down about conspiracies, do you also think that 9/11 was plotted by our president?
Frankly, you do not have any factorial evidence in your suject matter, so this is just hypothetical idealism
Hi Billy Bob,
at first, thank you for you reply. If you are interrested in my name i can tell you something about it(no need to guess). My nickname Vash is derived from english transcription of pronunciation of form of my first name. It is Wenceslaus and i am proud of this name. Because it is name of patron of our country. He was king who participated on spreading of Catholic church and was beatified. Lived in 9th century. Europe is old :).
Hierarchy and authority is tought thing. Sometime important. But you should make own opinion and not always trust what autorities say.(i forgot, Church is based on it). But simple fact, that Operating system contain Holy Bible just after instalation. Isn’t it perfect way to help words of God to reach every computer and everybody. Isn’t it good idea?
1)Try to concentrate on purpose(which is good). I am just saying that Christian Linux exist and its purpose is good(to help God). Look at linux as at a tool. Actually it is a tool. And it works as you would wish.
2)If it is true, that lot of companies use linux in US and paying taxes then it helps America. For example if they spare money on MS software they can employ more people or other equipment. True is that economical model(how to use it to earn money) around linux is litle bit complicated(selling services instead of hardcopies/licences) and you can read some articles and discussions on web.
So by conjunction of my two statements you get the proof that if is used, Linux works for God and America.
At the end you are comparing human being with computer program. And using the same way of thinking you could accuse anyone of anything… in other words your last sentence is irrelevant(its truthfulness has no effect on statements about linux)
to Swip
It looks like you are smarter then looks. How do you know Latex? I think it is better to refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
then rewrite it there. But i thing that you know about it all. So stop to argumenting that it is all about stealing something from MS. And do not ignore X11 origin at MIT in US(in 1982).
And about latex or tex(latex is build over tex)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
typeseting system for book production. Especially that containing lot of mathematics. It is different kind of software. Name derived from name(Leslie Lamport - american) of its creator and not parties or something like that(can find any connection between latex and party)
Open Office is alternative competition to MS Office. Its intention is to looks like MS Office to be acceptable by users. It is nothing bad to make similar product… like two cars from two manufacturers(have 4 wheels, breaks, steering, engine..).
Try harder in this discussion or we end up in naming software and its features. You can write.. try to read(encyclopedia at least).
This is false. We run Wordpress.Net, the commerical version of Wordpress which only runs on Windows 2003 Server?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s excellent ASP.net environment.
It?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥s true there was a time when we ran Linux, however as soon as Shelley discovered that we had been hosting on a communist software platform I insisted that we switch to Windows and fire our old webmaster.
Yours in Christ,
Tristan
Nice try, there is no commercial version of WordPress, it is pure open-source. I searched WordPress.org for both “commercial version” and “wordpress.net”
By the way, Tristan, Microsoft have just bought 70,000 Linux licences from Novell.
“It looks like you are smarter then looks. ”
Thanks a lot, but a compliment from a liberal fag is an anticompliment.
“(cannot find any connection between latex and party)”
Then enter “latex party” into your satanic firefox. You will see, what inspired those criminals!
Swip:
>Then enter ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?latex party?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ? into your satanic firefox
I didnt thought that you know about these things(as proper christian). But shame on you.
And again..criminals are people whose commited crimes. But there is no crime in connection with people developing LaTeX. There is no crime in connection with peopele on your latex parties(i am not sure). And especially there is no connection beween people around LaTeX and people around latex parties.
But maybe you believe that words similarity makes this connection. If we try harder we could find other homonyms where one is “good” and one is “bad” even in your eyes. So it will be diffcult to accept first thing for you and it will make you confused. (Homonyms are words which sound/are spelt the same but with different meanings. I hope that i will not explain meaning of homo- prefix in next reply.)
Wow, is this ever stupid. It just doesn’t get any more ignorant and stupider (is that even a word? it doesn’t matter, the author is so ignorant i’m sure that he won’t care). You don’t know squat about linux or computers yet you think you can go ahead and express yourself for the whole world to see? I pity anyone who reads this page and believes a word you say. It is ignorant, uneducated, and stupid people like you who slow down the evolution of the human race and who hold us back.
And if you think you are running ASP or Windows Server, your ignorance got the better of you again. You might wanna give your service provider a call and ask them why they’ve been lying to you.
Next time you want to go ahead and make some comments about stuff you don’t know about, I suggest you do some research and not just get some random linux pictures of google (i don’t know how the windows BSOD got in there, i’ll blame it on your lack of knowledge, experince, and abudance of stupidty).
If anyone wants some more info on the domain / ip:
http://ip-lookup.net/?68.178.232.47
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp?se=%2B&ci=7010
Oh wait, they use Red Hat Core 4??? Isn’t that linux as well? Wow!
Anyways, all ignorance and stupidty is starting to get to me, and I can actually feel myself getting stupider.
this site is quickly becoming my daily dose of comic relief. If the writers on this site were a true christians and not some kind of dumbass white supremisist’s they would be open minded and forgiving. not judgemental and damning. You ppl are anti chritain terroist’s god doesn’t love you. he despise’s you
Hahaha!
Thank you, Cleetus, you made my day. I thrive on others’ stupidity.
Loool. Excellent investigation, you guys. Especially the pictures, they kick major butt!!! Linux boot (not crash ;) ) screens, Windows blue screens… . But you’re right, Linux is still lacking some features, Windows has. But hey, there is a screensaver for KDE that emulates Windows Blue Screens. :D
And every one of the readers who is interested in viruses on Linux systems should really read this:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222
“Loool. Excellent investigation, you guys. Especially the pictures, they kick major butt!!! Linux boot (not crash ;) ) screens, Windows blue screens?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?”
This is hilarious. Lunixxers advert their lousy operating system with: “You never have to reboot it”. So, why should this be a Lunix boot screen?
Coz Linux is not yet a magical OS, you still have to start it :)
“This is hilarious. Lunixxers advert their lousy operating system with: ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?You never have to reboot it?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?. So, why should this be a Lunix boot screen?”
Who ever said that?
I’m not even a linuxer, btw., just happen to know a bit about the matter :)
Oh, and yes, you do have to reboot Linux every once in a while, of course. Just as with every other operating system on this planet except for very few rather exotics.
Swip, it’s a boot-screen, not a reboot-screen ;)
by the way: yes, you don’t need to reboot, but you can..
I have seen to much disinformation around here
X11R6 is the sixth major revision of X11. the first revision (X1) was released in 1984, looong before microsoft could even know what a gui is (and before microsoft could steal from apple, a true american company)
wordpress.net IS NOT ad operating system and it does not even exist! wordpress is an opensource CMS
OMG this is 100% bull 1 pic is of linux booting and another of windows BSOD somthink tells me u hve never used linux so you trash it
Omfg, why do you even bother? (Well then again, why did I? :) )
It is a proven fact, that *nix-Systems have been more robust towards crappy software than Windows has. It’s not MS Windows that crashes from itself, it’s the lack of kernel security. If you were to let Windows run on a computer without human interference it would not crash.
Allowing a user land programm to run in kernel mode is bad bad bad! Which is why pre-NT Windows Versions tend to crash a very lot. However with NT based systems such as Windows 2000 and XP things have changed a very lot to the better. Desktop Versions of Microsoft Windows are now capable of running 24/7 for quite a long time straight, check out the uptime project for facts on that matter. (http://www.uptime-project.net)
As for crappy hardware neither Windows, nor Linux, BSD, Plan9, Solaris, AIX or whatever else, can fully cope with it. Floating point errors on new Intel CPUs have been a major issue 8 to 10 years ago. The first generation of Pentium processors was quite buggy. There are plenty of workarounds, patches for each operating system to deal with such calculation errors. The famous F00F bug is only one example. Do a Google search on that to find out more.
Those are just simple examples that do not require much investigation. This article however makes for a great share of fun amongst anyone with enough knowledge about operating systems.
So long
Your ignorance keeps surprising me more and more every day… I like that you allow “freedom of speech” on your site (
Wow! You ashame me to be a republican! Congradulations. Funny stuff. This made a good laugh with me buddies
Ok, i have had it. You, the fukin’ idiot who wrote this article ar e as stupid as chitcken bug. First of all, ur acusations are unfonded, second, you’ve called the whole Europe comunist “Europe, the spiritual home of Communism and Linux is a sorry tale of Linux addiction” , you mother fuckin idiot. You call us comunists, wtf are you then?? throwing unofnded acusations at people. Don’t hide Ms Windblows’s crashes saying that is linux’s, cause that is definetly the BSOD. The last one seems to be a console output from a software durinc compilation. If u don’t fuckin’ finish with this bullshit, i’m gonna go to the media and show them the website. I’m shure, the press would have some words about this. And what the fuck has linux to do with hacking and drugs??!! And one more thing, as far as i remember, the software the bord computer uses, is specially programmed, by hired developers, that made the software for the specific hardware. What is shown on those monitors is a linux booting, my bet is that that was mandrake. THIS IS A PERSONAL WARNING, IF U DON’T STOP WITH THESE ATTACKS, I WILL GO TO THE PRESS.I can bet that this post will not appear on this site, so who ever filters it, better inform the maker of the article.
My goodness! What did that frog say to me that one time? Something about protesting too much? Heck, I don’t remember. All’s I know is that when you corner a rat he starts squealing.
God is Love!
Check this out!
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.shelleytherepublican.com
“We have been requested not to report on the site http://www.shelleytherepublican.com.”
Congratulations, Comrade Stalin! Anybody else wanna try to make the case that liberals control the media? Yeah. I didn’t think so. Everybody better run out and buy a bunch of brown shirts and jackboots cuz that’s what America is coming to. “Oh, oh, oh, Republicans are gonna take away my right to free speech!” WRONG! Pretty soon liberals will be calling for everyone to have special cards that’ll let ‘em get on the internet after you’ve proven that you’ll only say things that they like.
Y’all just disgust me!
God is Love!
Rofl, Billy Bob Neck, YOU MADE MY DAY!!!
Sorry, but you’re making a fool out of yourself over and over again! :) I bet you’d try to convince me that netcraft is liberal controlled, only that now I thought of that possibility before you did. No use pulling that off now ;).
But hey, we all know that you’re an absolute insider as far as politics, computers, and everything that interferes with either one, goes as well as, and probably most important, idiology. :) It was this article, that made me subscribe to the rss feeds and read the shit, just to get a good laughing head start into my oh so communist day of overtime work with bloody develish Linux computers which have to jump in whereever Windows just plain sucks.
Just keep up the good work (rofl) and I will remain an abiding reader! So long.
Oh, and btw. Democrats and Liberals are people, too!
Word out to all my comunist fellas here in Europa. Dudes, let’s account for one common internet connection at the European Parliament, that we all get to share. Just to prove Billy’s point that we’re all communists. And then we should be so nice to even share the connection with him, what do you think?
Linux is very obsessive thing I got a lot of troubles with this mania and I still have problems. It seems that my problems will not be over soon. Here is how the story started.
Very first time I got linux it was from dealer on the street. First of oll this linux - it was Corel linux did not work on my computer. Thanks God. Unfortunately we have tested it on the computer of my friend. Of cource we did not know how dangerous thing it is. After starting instalation on the screen have appeared group of japanies mafia yakudza with guns pointed to us. Then linux have deleted all hard drive of my friend. We wrest the power cable from the wall but it was too late. All information was lost. His wife hava played on the game Sims months and she have had a lot of property money and children. Now everything was lost. This was the warning but I did not listen. Years later my problems become even worster. I have installed Suse on system and there was several wornings on the screen. I choose expert options because I am IT expert of cource and the result was that I could not start Windows anymore and I did not have internet. Simply Linux does not support my modem. Actually Linux does not support any modems and when you use Linux you have to work offline. Of cource I have installed windows again but during the process all my data was lost. I have asked where I can find drivers for Linux as they are not included in the DVD I have both. The answer was that if I want driver for my modem I have to write it myself?!
This is unreal :) Coolest ever. Shelly, you should start your own comedy show. You are realy good at this. Also I knew that americans are stupid, but this is beyond my imagination.
Greetengs from Bulgaria. Home of terrorists :)
Either ur stupid either u pretend to be.First of all you don’t just buy an os from a dealer down the street, unless ure really really stupid. Second, corel linux is antique, and by all means, what you had there it was not corel linux, actually, it was not linux at all. Corel linux was developed by Corel Inc., the sames that produce corel office suite, wich is much better than microsoft office btw.
Third, all linux support internet connection including modems. If u didn’t knew how to configure it, that’s ur problem. Noone says to write ur own driver, u just search for it on yor modem provider site. Btw, modems in linux usually use generic drivers, wich do come with linux. Fourth, what the fuck linux version did u use??
Fifth, linux is what drives the internet.
If u dono what ure talking about, then shut the fuck up. From what u said there, i can bet u were lying about being an IT expert. If u wanna buy an os, you go to a certified store or provider, not the dealer down the street. What is with u people?? What has mafia to do with linux??
Do you realise you are speaking nonsense? Linux IS, and WILL be better than windows in almost every aspect you mention. I use Linux on a i386, it runs faster than a WinXP on a Pentium 4 at my school, which even has more RAM and hard disk space than I have. Linux is the OS with the best hardware support of all, it can run on nearly any computer, even in those whose hardware is from such obscure companies that it’s hard even to find their drivers. It also has evolves much faster than your “blue screen hugging” OS, from just a Unix based terminal to the modern mega user friendly distros such as Ubuntu, so simple to use that even a single celled brain asshole as you could use it.
Since I use Linux it haven’t crashed a single time, I haven’t sufferd the attack of any virus nor the attack of crappy software such as office or IE7…
To en my post I would like to say some things… The first picture is a Linux starting up, it isn’t the crash screen, Tux(the penguin) is like the “mascot”, like MAC’s apple I guess, and that CAN’T be the main computer since the passengers have no interest in it so it would be a cash, resource and time loss to put those screens there.
The second picture is your beloved Blue screen of death on a TV -_- (you are so stupid I can’t believe it).
The third is, again, a Linux starting up as it seems, and if you keep saying stupid things as “They are planning what viruses should be included with the next version of Linux” I’ll send all my corean friends to destroy your computer(if you didn’t realise, I’m moking at your stupidity).
The fourth is… OH! I’ve seen thes before, it’s a broken video card, a friend of mine once was trying to fix one of this, dude, you have no idea haw funny is to stare at a computer starting up like this, it’s like it was druged or something xD.
The last but nost least, I’m not sure if it even is Linux, but if it is, it is more likely that you are beaten by a furious horde of thinking people than to crash…(I guess now I know why “Fahrenheit 451″’s world like it was… people like you are the cause)
I hope I made myself clear. You suck, Linux roxxorz and pwns j00 n00b
I just have to say that this is the most funny thing i have ever read on the entier web. If doubt that anyone would have done a better job.
I would have given a 1000 dollars to you, s??¢‚Ǩ¬¢ you could have started a new life, but there was a problem with a windows server and I could not complete my actions.
So have a nice christmas, and I hope the windows server at your bank crases, so your bank accounts goes to hell.
PS! You should visit Hell some time…. I think it’s kind of nice :P
(now, back at laughing at your artickle. HE, HE, HE.)
Here is the confession of another man. Do we need more words?
I must start this software review with a confession. For the past three years, I’ve been keeping bad company. In a momentary lapse of judgment, I accepted a CDROM from a stranger, took it home, and installed the software onto my computer. The CD contained that notorious, viral and anti-American operating system - Linux! Thus began my long slide down that slippery slope into the dark world of “free software.”
“Free” - don’t believe it! Just like heroin, only the first one is free. I soon found myself spending huge sums of money on Linux books and broadband fees. I would stay up all night consuming massive amounts of coffee, cola, and pizza. I lost weight, my skin became pale, I allowed my hair to grow long, gave up shaving, and never took a bath. I seldom went home, hanging out all night in a computer warehouse in Palo Alto, California, with a bunch of left-wing, pinko creeps known as hackers. Furthermore, me and my new-found “friends” worshiped a cult figure, a Finnish terrorist named Linus “Marx” Torvalds, who has written an updated version of The Communist Manifesto that he calls Just For Fun.
full story here http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-winxp
@Benjamin Farewell
tipical linux user - he don’t know what he is talking about.
First of all I spend yesterday night installing this corel linux on one old PC. There was something about Debian inside. I think they use Debian kernel. However althougt I have been waithing with camera in my hands to make a photo of the jap maf yakudza they did not appear. May be this are special linux trick and the threat appear only ones and then you can not proove it any more because it disappeares from the cd.
You say “it was not linux at all” You really mean That Corel Linux is not linux?! Bulshit. It is 100% linux It names show this. Simple.
Never heard about Corel Office suit. When it was better someone will use it but I dont know nobody using it! Why? Because probably it is a crap.
About modems. You think that I do not know how to configure my modem and you are maybe right but I know people who already are using linux five years and they are forced to by second computer with Windows. Thanks God it is free delivered with all new computers. Then they have internet and they are using their linux only in their local network but everybody knows that linux does not support modems but only LAN adn only way to get internet via modem is WINDOWS!!! Or you have to find ISP who provide LAN cable to your home.
You say “First of all you don’t just buy an os from a dealer down the street” And my answer is - I am forced to buy it from the street because you can not find it in respectfull shops or otherwise it is very expensive. By the way here in Belgium instaling linux cost money:
“Linux installation service in our shop:
75 eur/installation.Also with dual boot windows/linux.
With transporter:+45 eur” Total 120 euros - about 150 USD
here is the link http://www.linux-service.be/eng/welkom.htm
There is no free lunch my man;)
scanman, i think you don’t even know what you are talking about.
first of all there is no such thing as jap mafia screen in corel, it is simply a your lie.
second, is is true that linux has some problems with usb modems, but that is because of the modem producers; they do not want to support linux. what if they choose to not support windows?
third, you haven’t find a linux distribution to buy in a “respectfull shop” because you do not have to buy it. you can download from the internet for free (free as free beer, and free as free speech)
First of all, let me introduce myself: I am an american systems administrator and programmer. Please forgive me if my English sounds a bit strange, but I am Brazilian and I’m not a fluent English speaker (though I read a lot of English articles - including this one, if you can call this an article). I have worked with IT for 2 years now, with both Microsoft and Unix (including Linux) systems. I don’t want to, in any way, comment on US politics, freedom, communism, or whatever. Instead, I want to, using the author’s own words, reveal the truth on Linux and its reliability.
The first thing that came into my mind when I read this was “this must be a joke”. When I realized the author and many readers really believe this, I thought I should clarify this matter. The article shows clearly that the author doesn’t know absolutely nothing about either computing or it’s history. I don’t blame him for that, nobody is born knowing everything. I blame him for essaying on such an important matter without any prior research.
I find the pictured examples of the claimed Linux unreliability rather funny. The first picture shows a Linux system’s startup screen, not a crash screen. The penguin logo just proves that, it was added by the distribution developers (not by mr. Torvalds himself, as he claims) just like Microsoft added a Windows logo in the Windows startup screen.
The second picture clearly shows a crashed Microsoft Windows system, not a Linux one. As far as I know, the only operational system that shows a blue crash screen (the notorious blue screen of death - BSOD) is Windows. I think the author shot himself on the foot.
The third picture shows a Linux command-line interface, highly praised by hackers because of its power - but hated by common users because of its complexity. Therefore it’s no surprise to see a screen like that in a Linux hacker conference - which, by the way, must be planning what new innovative features should be added in the next version of Linux, rather than what viruses should be included. In case of doubt, you can always check the Linux source code for viruses or malicious code, since it’s open-source software. That’s something you simply can’t do with proprietary software like Windows - your only warranty is Microsoft’s own words, which, in my opinion, are not trustworthy (just look at Microsoft’s historic).
http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html
The fourth picture shows a crashed computer, that’s all. Nobody can tell from the picture alone what software that computer was running - whether it’s Linux or anything else.
Finally, the fifth picture shows another BSOD. What a shame for Windows…
The Linux operating system has evolved more than any other os in the last ten years. In fact, many modern features found in Windows Vista have been taken from open-source software, like for example the revamped user-interface (taken from projects like Looking Glass, Metisse and Compiz/Beryl) or the UAC security system.
Linux doesn’t crash all the time, I am talking from my own experience: most of our clients use GNU/Linux in their critical servers and many of them use it in their workstations as well. I am myself using it as I write this and I use and work with it everyday: it’s reliable, secure, stable, robust and fully-featured. Most web servers in the internet run open-source software (including GNU/Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, etc.) According to security-expert Netcraft, the most reliable web hosters run Linux:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/11/06/rackspace_and_tiscali_most_reliable_hosters_in_october.html
Notice how Windows isn’t even on the list. There are also many papers attesting and proving Linux’s superior reliability:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/fuzz.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rel/
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-985221.html?tag=fd_top
http://news.com.com/Security+research+suggests+Linux+has+fewer+flaws/2100-1002_3-5489804.html
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100724
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39190950,00.htm
http://software.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=06/08/14/202229
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118937-page,1/article.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7788/print
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-244052.html?legacy=cnet&tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.ni
There are many renowed US companies behind Linux and/or open-source software development, like Novell, Red Hat, IBM, Apple, Levanta, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, just to mention a few. Do you call those companies “Russian and North Korean hackers with the backing of the islamofascist government of Iran”? Give me a break, this comment alone classifies you as a “don’t know what I am talking about, but I’m talking anyway…”
Maybe if you research and find out a little about the history of computing, and specially the history of Microsoft, you’ll realize that Linux is in fact an impulse to capitalism, rather than a communist strategy to destroy it. You’ll find out the sort of people you can’t trust with your computer are Microsoft, a company known for making copycat, unreliable products, for stopping innovation and cheating on the market.
I’m not asking you to be a computer-expert. I’m just asking you to stop talking about things you think you know about, and start talking only about things you really know about.
Sincerely,
Carlos Filipe
What’s so bad about communism anyway? Why do you bash it so hardly? It looks like you are just a bunch of fanatics…
Oh, and BTW, you are a bunch of liars too. Your webserver unobjectionably runs Apache and PHP. I suspect it runs Linux as well, but I couldn’t verify that (yet :)
You don’t umperstand nothing of Linux, nothing of computing and nothing of freedom.
Linux developers aren’t a mafia and you can be processed to say this.
You are a poor man. You have a communist mind. You shouid have experienced a bad live cd of Linux and thinked what this system is a drug and, then, thinked “Oh, Yes, I am in richest world nation, what president stole the election and kill innocent children in Iraq and I haven’t nothing more to do and will speak bad for Linux.”
De facto, if you view netcraft,com, will see what Linux and Apache is behind around 90% of world web servers.
De facto, if you have money to buy a original license from Microsoft, too many people haven’t and, finally, if you think what shoud use Windows, what is a copy of MacOS and Linux, because MS is a american enterprise, know what Red Hat is an american enterprise too. And if you buy Microsoft by this ideology, you must buy Red Hat too.
You are the type of people what the world don’t care.
You don’t umperstand nothing of Linux, nothing of computing and nothing of freedom.
Linux developers aren’t a mafia and you can be processed to say this.
Bill Gates stoled Apple and must be punished for this!
You are a poor man. You have a communist mind. You shouid have experienced a bad live cd of Linux and thinked what this system is a drug and, then, thinked “Oh, Yes, I am in richest world nation, what president stole the election and kill innocent children in Iraq and I haven’t nothing more to do and will speak bad for Linux.”
De facto, if you view netcraft,com, will see what Linux and Apache is behind around 90% of world web servers.
De facto, if you have money to buy a original license from Microsoft, too many people haven’t and, finally, if you think what shoud use Windows, what is a copy of MacOS and Linux, because MS is a american enterprise, know what Red Hat is an american enterprise too. And if you buy Microsoft by this ideology, you must buy Red Hat too.
You are the type of people what the world don’t care.
@patrik
here one linux user who knows a bit more but he dont understand what irony means. Indeed most of USB modems are not supported and you have to search them created by volunteers. However many times you will have problems with missing packages and just things you don’t know when you are new with linux. One example is http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=287227
The truth is that most of hardware producers do not support linux, they just don’t care and this make some difficulties for the new users like me but every problem has a solution.
I wrote this bulshit just for fun and to see the peoples reaction. Actually I am using both Windows and Suse 10.1 and I do not understand why most of the visitors of the site believe that any of the articles on STR are serious. This is simply impossible. As you can see the autor is able to run very old version of red hat (I think this is very difficult for a newbie)and obviously he know a lot more about computers and networks and about linux. He use linux as a server and all time he writes absurds and actually he jockes with Microsoft and their policy and also with republicans and their belives.
This kind of irony can be seen on few sites where the autors are ateists and liberals and they ridicule tipical conservative people. Usually I have a lot of fun with this sites. Coments are also very funny.
The strange think is that only minority get the joke.
http://www.truechristian.com/index.html
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-winxp
http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
http://www.thebricktestament.com/index.html
One flash who make me ROTFL is
http://www.thefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf
don’t miss it! It will make your day.
What is very scaring for me is that so many people believe in absurds. They can have a lot of knowledge about the matter but they are not able to see a simpe truth. This make them easy to be manipulated.
Interesting…But you’re a stupid being.
I’ve checked the sources of your pictures and,have you read what the guy said?
“Of course none of these are BSoD as there is not such thing in Linux. However, if you get some bad hardware plugged into Linux, or put the average Joe that uses Windows in front of a Linux machine, the amount of hanging, crashes, kernel panics you will get will BLOW YOUR MIND. All of these screens below do shoe rebooting in situations where a reboot should not have happened,aka, in a plane with hundreds of passengers seeing “engine” in the boot sequence. End users don’t know the difference. ”
Of course,there’s no such thing as a BSOD in Linux.Not even when my MoBo died I got one.It just got back to the login screen.
On the other hand,Windows kept rebooting or giving me the follwoing message “Page fault in Non paged area”,with a bunch of memory addresses,as if I could understand hexadecimal numbers like 1+1=2.
BTW,you’re the top ridiculous subject in Orkut’s Linux vs. Windows Community.Even a winuser we have there (who uses Linux,also),one of the few we respect,is laughing at your dumbness.
Now,get your butt off this chair and start a Computer Science Course.Sean’s words are also mine.
And don’t judge me by the name I bear,starting your silly talking about terrorists and OpenSource.My name is Roman,not Egyptian (the original equivalent one is Aset)
This article is utter bullshit.
“if you get some bad hardware plugged into Linux, or put the average Joe that uses Windows in front of a Linux machine, the amount of hanging, crashes, kernel panics you will get will BLOW YOUR MIND. ”
It is not easy to cause a kernel panic out of the blue. Even harder for an userland application to do it. It needs a REALLY badly-written application or a buggy device driver (which can only be loaded by root).
I have been using Linux for 18 months now, and I saw a kernel panic ONCE because of a buggy closed-source driver. In Windows my machine BSOD’s when I plug in my webcam.
The author of this article is a total dim bulb. If Linux is communism then Windows is fascism.
Hell, how I love this shit. God bless America!
Let’s see if the troll knows how to search google or in books to find that my name is actually a greek corruption of Her true name…
Goddamn Rednecks, you censored me!
GNU/Linux December 4th, 2006 12:30 pm
Your ignorance keeps surprising me more and more every day?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ? I like that you allow ?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ?freedom of speech?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ? on your site (
But for science’ sake, if you cesor, do it right. You forgot an open bracket… Gee
I won’t bother to rewrite my initial post though. Ignorance it the worst thing that can happen to someone, “ain’t that right”, rednecks?
My linux desktop:
http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capturaecrasq2.png
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capturaecrapb4.png
hmm seems like text console.
Big comedy. Thanks
“As Tristan will tell you, we use wordpress.net as an operating system.”
Could somebody look for Wordpress OS ? Please? Anyone?
Just TOO rofl.
Most of those pics are actually Windows crashes, also known as BSOD.
Your pictures only illustrates that Windows is more prone to crashes than linux and that you don’t know much about computers.
Really “Mr Clever” Antoine? I think you have no idea of computers, or can you explain me it takes Linux so long only to start up?
the amount of time need to linux to “start up” will depends on how many kernel modules you put on it during compilation-yes, you can compile the kernel, and no, there’s no NSA backdoor option in there- and, how many programs run on the start up, you can make that time shorter or the oposite re-compiling your kernel, or not having those daemon run on start up. on the other side, the shutting down is way faster, and it actually shutdown in windows, i fell lucky if it managed to go off all alone -without me having to push the reset button or something-
Shelly,U r an idiot
Looooooooooooool
This is the moooost stupid thing I ever read of my whole life ^^
I think you must quickly go to one of your wonderful maerican malls, and try to find whether they sell or not brains…
This is your last hope, hurry up!!
Haha…your claims are eempty and hollow. You have absolutely NO shred of evidence to prove ANY of your claims.
Furthermore, your server is being run with a unix-based operating system, along with about 95% of the rest of the internet.
Linux is much more stable and faster than Windows because it is open source, so that many bugs and security flaws can be quickly closed and removed. Windows is the complete opposite of that. Not only is their software not open source, they throw in many bugs and security flaws just so that people will rush out and buy the next version, which includes fixes to the bugs…..plus a few new ones.
Don’t try to deny that your server doesn’t run linux. I’ve run a tracert command as well as a whois lookup on your domain.
also, linux isn’t the only open-source, free operating system out there. Almost any UNIX-based operating system is.
…Which brings me to another to