.Net is now multiplatform... for the price of your soul!

.tar compresses a bunch of files at once, and .gz can only do one at a time, so you mix them and you get a nicely compressed file. Any half decent archive program (in Linux or Windows) can do it automatically.
 
I h*te everything in Linux, except its GUI look and feel. Cool...
I remember I can use windows in just a day or two without any teaching, but months and months for Linux. In addition to .gz.tar, there are also aliens devices (??) in /dev (?).
 
Its not an OS meant for the end-user. If you dont like it, dont use it.
 
dragon4spy said:
I h*te everything in Linux, except its GUI look and feel. Cool...
I remember I can use windows in just a day or two without any teaching, but months and months for Linux. In addition to .gz.tar, there are also aliens devices (??) in /dev (?).
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Well, which version?

I think there are like 10-15 major versions and about a hundred times as many minor versions.

Some are very similar, some are radically different.

Some are all command prompt like dos, with others you need to search to find the command prompt, its hidden under the GUI so well.

If you want an "Easy" Linux experience, you might want to try Lindows. Its a linux implimentation of windows, ment for novices/windows users.

you can find it at www.lindows.com, and it also ships with cheap $200 PCs from walmart (got one for my mother-in-law, but lindows didnt work with the monitor we had, so we had to install windows 2000 anyway, nice computer for the price, if cheap perriphials. The mouse was crap).

This is so Windowslike that the linux community as a whole pretty much hates it a little more than windows. Its worse because its Linux tying to be windows!

I can say a lot of bad things about windows and have a lot of annoyances, but PlugNPlay sure as hell beats writing your own configuration for each device.

For the most part, I want to spend my computer time being productive, not fiddling with the OS to try to make it work.
 
Mandrake v9, downloaded from their website. Its free! cool...

I dont think linux is suitable for home and office users, because No DirectX games ever played, no.... However, I do agree that Linux is great for servers, for those background services things :D.

I knew I can complain much more about Linux, but I cant because this is .net forum.
 
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