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  1. I was a little surprised to see the thread getting locked as well.

     

    In addition to the argument already mentioned, patch management is increasingly difficult on Windows type of system (because of the number of patches to test, manage, and look at). The continuous point release upgrade on many free software would likely prove out to ease the system management process in the long run.

  2. SCO = Stupid Computer Organization

     

    that is, after its opportunistic effort on trying to abuse the legal system and stealing credits of other free software developers' hard work, and call it SCO's own IP - which is NOT.

  3. I would love to know what companies some of these shadow win admins work in.

     

    Sounds like his boss told him to look into linux and he's now afraid he'll loose hours if he uses it in the office.

     

    I know. My post was a obvious poke but I couldn't help it. Its fun sometimes.

     

    No kidding, at the other day, I knew one of the Windows die-hard admins (from a friend of LUG) was told by the boss to look at Linux for its cost cutting possibilities, he's reluctant to do so but has to face the reality of a competing, cheaper (and free in speech) operating system.

     

    For the record, Microsoft WILL break the backward compatibility religion:

     

    Windows XP SP2 is only a start.

    VB.NET isn't exactly compatible with VB6.

    And we all know Windows Longhorn will rip things apart:

    Just read Joel Spolsky's article on Win32 API, Joel is btw a former Microsoft employee.

     

    No matter how you are having adjustment problem with Linux, it is the way to go for the future of IT industry. Darkelve posted another article by the Kernel 2.6's maintainer Andrew Morton, read it, and you will understand why Linux is so successful because it balances customer demand with good engineering, not just swing to a single side.

     

    As for usablity goes, GNOME's HIG is getting there, and I believe KDE has been paying attention to that too. A little more research really doesn't hurt.

  4. Update:

     

    ALSA 1.0.6 official release is now available:

    http://www.alsa-project.org/

    http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-announce@...t/msg00018.html

     

    Linux Hardware also has a report on this:

    http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/16/1850201

     

    So it's about time to start testing and see if the new driver works for you if you are using one of these soundcard models.

  5. Like you said, you are on the safe side for using nVidia GPUs in the short term.

     

    In the long term, well, I'll suggest keep visiting the ATi Linux forum for any decent update possible. I am concerned for the ATi Linux driver development, because I too, want to have more choices. In addition, ATi driver support will help Linux achieve greater popularity, which I believe is a growing voice among user community and the industry.

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