Looks like the post before me has ben deleted, now my post makes no sense..

No point, just some fun poking.

 

Looks like the post before me has ben deleted, now my post makes no sense..

No point, just some fun poking.

Mod did it, not me.

 

Well this is creative. It never would have dawned on me to (try to) sell bootable Linux on a thumb drive to the gullible.

http://householdsavingtips.com/xtrapc/index.php?1=adgroup1camp14ad11&2=490006&3=541885404

 

Well this is creative. It never would have dawned on me to (try to) sell bootable Linux on a thumb drive to the gullible.

http://householdsavingtips.com/xtrapc/index.php?1=adgroup1camp14ad11&2=490006&3=541885404

The marketing is deceptive. But Linux boot disks and USB flash drives have been sold for a long time.

And it is perfectly legal -- as long as they provide access to the Linux source code.

 

Well this is creative. It never would have dawned on me to (try to) sell bootable Linux on a thumb drive to the gullible.

http://householdsavingtips.com/xtrapc/index.php?1=adgroup1camp14ad11&2=490006&3=541885404

It is not the gullible, it is the technically handcuffed. How do you download a version of Linux when your Windows box is paralyzed? Buy a USB stick is so easy and cheap. I'm not walking over to the neighbor and asking them to download Linux to a USB drive for me.

 

Red hat took it to the max.
Linux is in everything almost.
I still remember them days getting it to boot then changing things to get the video going the nic card working sound. Then the hat shut us out. Then they needed help the door open agin. Love it tho you can build your own all the open code.

 

It is not the gullible, it is the technically handcuffed.

I can totally understand the utility of a bootable thumb drive and I'd pay for one under certain circumstances. It's the angle they're using that wouldn't have occurred to me, because I tend to overestimate the intelligence of consumers.

 

Red hat took it to the max.
Linux is in everything almost.
I still remember them days getting it to boot then changing things to get the video going the nic card working sound. Then the hat shut us out. Then they needed help the door open agin. Love it tho you can build your own all the open code.

my first Linux device was the first generation TiVo box. When we were done, we did some hack to turn it into a desktop but couldn't get too far because it was not a full implementation of Linux and I didn't really care too much beyond the novelty.

 

I have run Linux on everything But the one thing I wanted to the most which is what got me into picmicros
the pic32 I started on it but I messed up the first pic 32 I forgot to set my pickit2 to 3 volt chip and burnt up the board I made that had the little 1/2 inch chip on it I had spent months on building a small sys for the MIPS
It was doable but I gave up on the ideal after I started liking asm on there 8 bit chips.

 

There's a Linux system in my Sony Bravia TV. Now I've got a TV that freezes up and requires rebooting pretty frequently. And it does updates to itself whenever it feels like it. And this is better how?

 

some have given up:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_says_all_windows_2020/

 

There's a Linux system in my Sony Bravia TV. Now I've got a TV that freezes up and requires rebooting pretty frequently. And it does updates to itself whenever it feels like it. And this is better how?

Could've been worse....had they installed Window, your TV would be spamming E.D. meds emails all over the world.

Just think: a TV now needs an OS. When the zombie apocalypse happens, we are sooooo screwed.

 

Very timely. Just had to postpone an update that the TV had decided was important right now. On another note, nice to see someone else reads the Register. My goto site for tech news. Sort of the underbelly of IT. And humour too, including BOFH. (Bastard Operator From Hell who specializes in payback to stupid users ).

 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers/

Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list. Today, it finally happened: All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers are running Linux.

 

There is Linux that looks like Windows. Zorin OS.
It can even run Windows programs. And it's free.

A public institution can not justify why it gives money on an operating system there is another one as good for what they need but for free.

the pic32 I started on it but I messed up the first pic 32

I read that PIC32 is the fastest controller from Microchip. 200MHz/50MIPS.

I wanted to buy one to make an oscilloscope. I read that has A/D 18MS/s but in reality there are several converters with 1-2MS/s/

There are not many who use pic32, that's why I took the opportunity to write here.

 

A public institution can not justify why it gives money on an operating system there is another one as good for what they need but for free.

Most public institutions I know of are not concerned with justifying their actions. They're in charge, you're not, and you'll do what they tell you.

 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers/

With an anti-science regime in charge of the government....

Could've been a good straight news story, but he couldn't help himself.

 

I love linux cred threads. They seem to pop up in a lot of places. Does V6 Bell Labs Unix, count?

 

Most public institutions I know of are not concerned with justifying their actions. They're in charge, you're not, and you'll do what they tell you.

Yeah, and now that you mention it I actually fund them with taxes I have little say over. Thinking something is wrong with this picture.

Ron

 

I love linux cred threads. They seem to pop up in a lot of places. Does V6 Bell Labs Unix, count?

Does Multics count?

The name Unix (originally Unics) is itself a pun on Multics. The U in Unix is rumored to stand for uniplexed as opposed to the multiplexed of Multics, further underscoring the designers' rejections of Multics' complexity in favor of a more straightforward and workable approach for smaller computers. (Garfinkel and Abelson[18] cite an alternative origin: Peter Neumann at Bell Labs, watching a demonstration of the prototype, suggested the name/pun UNICS (pronounced "Eunuchs"), as a "castrated Multics", although Dennis Ritchie is claimed to have denied this.[19])

http://swenson.org/multics_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page