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A question that always generates calm and reasonable discussion: What OS do you use?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @06:34AM
If you don't use Linux, you're crap!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @09:09AM
Hush, it's GNU/Linux.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @10:00AM
And where is GNU on the poll? Nowhere! Because it's crap!
(Score: 3, Disagree) by jmorris on Thursday August 06 2015, @11:09PM
Unless it is Android/Linux.
That GNU/Linux thing used to really annoy, it was clear RMS was just butthurt that his failure to complete the HURD and get GNU out himself. Linux/GNU/X came along and the name just happened, and Linux is what stuck and there really ain't no changing it at this point.
But we do need to think about some sort of naming scheme that can capture the new reality that 'Linux' is now a family of systems based roughly on the Linux kernel. Linux/GNU/X is the OS that was, Android/Linux is the one that is and something is birthing over at RedHat that isn't Android or UNIX but doesn't have a name because they don't want to admit they are quietly replacing POSIX/UNIX/X with Pottering's Folly. It is either the Linux that will be or a disaster... or perhaps both.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @12:53AM
Everything is Google.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @04:43AM
Name it after the DE because that's what the user ends up actually using.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Saturday August 08 2015, @01:24AM
Name it after the DE because that's what the user ends up actually using.
I don't use a DE you insensitive clod!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2015, @06:14AM
You're not a normal user (but name it after the terminal emulator then :))
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday August 09 2015, @10:10PM
Who said I'm using an emulator?
https://blog.adafruit.com/2011/08/10/vt220-serial-console-circa-1983-set-up-as-a-terminal-for-mac-pro-2010/ [adafruit.com]
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday August 10 2015, @08:11PM
Damn, it happened again.
I select the moderation, then hit "End" to go to the bottom of the page, but the moderation combobox had the focus, so it change the value to "Spam" instead.
Then I try to select the right moderation and moderate again, but the system says I had already moderated on this. Why can't I correct and overwrite the previous moderation?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday August 11 2015, @05:01AM
Meh, stuff happens. Get downmodded all the time, first spam mod though. For the record, THAT one burns karma; looks like one spam mod drains ten whole points. Guess I need to remember to post a couple of non-political posts now. :)
Have to assume the system has some sort of safety mech to prevent abuse of the spam mod if it is that powerful so hope you don't get hosed too. Probably a rare enough event it likely doesn't make sense to want a way to take a mod back or anything. In the end, it's just mod points on a website, ain't terribly important.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:26AM
Yeah, we manually check the spam mods every day. At least I do. Abuses carry a month's ban from moderating but accidental ones we just reverse, so always make sure and say something if it was accidental.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:54PM
Given the way this mod happened (and assuming accidental spam mods often go that way), what about adding a second "---" line after the spam mod, so this error results not in a spam mod, but in an invalid mod which gets ignored?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2015, @01:54PM
Yeah, that's really a pretty good idea. Or put a duplicate Normal entry down there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Thursday August 27 2015, @09:14AM
How about a "are you sure you want to mod this post X" for mods which can cause damage? this would seem to solve 2 problems, the first being accidental downmods and the second being those abusing downmods as it would be harder for them to say "it was just an accident" if they had to click through a second "are you sure" box.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:48PM
Or simply an Undo Spam link beside the comment title. It already exists for all admins and editors, it shouldn't be too difficult to have it appear if you're the one who moderated the post Spam as well. Hmm...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:20AM
No worries. All fixed.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:34AM
Fine. SCO/Linux. Happy now?
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Thursday August 13 2015, @06:51PM
I use Linux exclusively, I actually use my own remaster of PClinuxOS and I don't have to worry about any systemd business, although I do use the other creation of Pulse Audio. I have totally ignored every Windows release after 7, and there would be no way I'd use 10. I have used OSX though and after 10.6 it seems to have been down hill. I do like BSD though, it's stable beyond belief.
just my 2 Cents
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 2, Insightful) by elixir on Thursday August 13 2015, @07:17PM
I do not think RMS was butthurt, he has a point. Linux is not an operating system, as we all know it is just a kernel.
I think it is valid to call is GNU/Linux since Linux is the kernel and GNU is the operating system. No need to call it GNU/Linux/X because X is merely a program that runs on GNU/Linux ;)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2015, @04:01AM
Linux is the kernel, not the OS. OSs are Redhat, Mint, Debain, ... Though we tend to call them distros.
Pick your version here: http://distrowatch.com/ [distrowatch.com]
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/02/analysis-of-top-10-linux-operating.html [everydaylinuxuser.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @09:36AM
After recent revelations about Win 10 spyware being also forcefully installed into Win 7 and 8 through updates, I would rephrase that as "If you continue to use Windows they crap on you with your consent".