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 | Cornellgreen: Ghastly GUIs? I'll buy that Gnome (my usual desktop) looks a bit dated, but KDE 4? I've played with it in VirtualBox, and it looks every bit as polished as those commercial OS's to me, especially the smooth fonts and scalable icons. But I'm no artist; beauty is in …  |
| | Some vocal Windows enthusiasts seem to be deeply disturbed by Linux' growing success. Over 95% of supercomputers, 44% of servers (equal to Windows), and a third of netbooks run Linux. Even the most pessimistic of claims shows Linux desktop usage still growing, if slowly, somewhere between 1.13% and 5% of …  |
| | Yep, Linux has occasional problems with certain types of "trade secret" hardware like Broadcom - vendors who not only won't provide Linux drivers, but protect the data free software developers need to do the job themselves. But Windows "just works"?? You've clearly never tried to install newer versions on older … |
| | Swashbuckler2 does a commendable job of explaining why licenses are important. But why do we have so many licenses? We have so many licenses because authors have varying goals for their software. The most common license by far is the Gnu GPL. It is a reciprocal (or so-called "copyleft") license … |
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