I thought I could hear something through that Static. It was saying something about "Linneks". Don't know what that is, but it sounds like a message from the prophets man.
Linux was not a new operating system. It's Linus basically re-writing the UNIX kernel. It's heavily based on BSD UNIX. With some creative copying of System V code, in a way that did not infringe on copyrights.
@Nomoreidsleft Heh... It's not got any System V code in there. In order to get the code in there, you're going to trip across Copyrights. It should be known the company that claimed this is in a Chapter 11 proceeding, about to face the music for Lanham Act violations. And, it's not heavily based on BSD- it's something quite a bit different with bits and bobs from BSD (Which is legit, mind...) and stuff wholly new.
@Linusti I never said that Linux had any AT&T or Berkeley code in it. However, working with UNIX OSes for Almost 20 years, I've worked with BSD, and SysV code, and play with Linux for fun. Basically the idea behind Linux in the beginning was, "let's see how we can put this BSD or SysV functionality into Linux". There's only so many ways you can write loops, or open a file, so although not cut and paste, code is very similar. MULTICS is the one true OS from which AT&T was based.
The IBM-Intel-Microsoft monopoly has ensured our level of technology has stuck to a very precise roadmap set out by IBM employee, Gordon Moore. It is the empirical observation that the transistor density of integrated circuits doubles every 2 years. Enabling them to sell us software and hardware at a known rate, allowing the software to demand the upgrade in hardware and vice versa.
People should have listened to the "geeks", 15 years ago. Linux frees us from the software, we need hardware.
A regional intergalactic power invades and subjugates a peaceful civilization. After decades of occupation, this civilization succeeds in throwing off the yoke of imperial rule and casting away their occupiers. It is then befriended by a powerful, benevolent civilization, which is charged with protecting the newly independent world by setting up a command center in a former mining station, which was stripped, retrofitted and improved and now running... Linux.
latest distro of ubuntu doesnt use beryl per-say i think they got around a lot of issues, with compatibility i couldnt use 8.10 on my Nvidea but alls good now
Honestly, if I wasn't such an avid gamer, and there weren't weird problems with my wireless Realtek device (though I'm sure it might be fixed soon), I'd be using the Linux Ubuntu distro by now.
Windows: oh hey it's broken after 6 months even with top protection.
Linux: Woah it works, and better!
Gah, somebody make DirectX 9 open source. Hell, I wish they could steal it and spread it everywhere... and once that happenes, there's no way they can stop it, no matter how many silly laws they have.
Oh I would, but I just don't have any of the skills for that. But I wish.
Right now Wine and Cedega are the best options, but if they were merged and free like they should be, using only donations with a bonus of getting the latest versions earlier, it would be a benefit for all of the community. But alas, Cedega team succumbed to greed. Bah.
Ah well, as long as Winblows still works, I can get things done, not that it'll last that long. Good thing Game Maker is trying to be cross-compatible...
very nice, I have gotta get my Linux cds from home. (I work away alot) windows had a patch just two days ago, guess what happened right after the patch ran. Blue screen of death was what happened.
"So you support Windows removing x86 support in Windows 8?"
I am saying that they should have removed compatability with the 8086 and 80286 that is still there in the decode unit of the processor, and chewing up real estate and making things bloated.
They should also pass a law that if an operating system company decides to stop supporting an OS, they MUST release source code to others so that an aftermarket can be created to support older OS's that people still use.
I'm pretty sure you can get a refund for the cost of a Microsoft OS if you buy a computer with it preinstalled and elect to load something like Linux as a replacement. That makes hardware support, rather than pre-loaded OS, the key factor in whether a computer locks you into a proprietary OS.
Its in ibms financial interest to support linux,they sell the computer at the same price if it had windows,but install linux for that machine and pocket that much more profit.
Oh,you must be talking them netbooks,well the netbooks are not the same as a full sized laptop.
AS for dell pricing $1,000 for a new linux laptop.I purchased mine with vista for $500.00 from walmart in june.Its an older unsold model until I bought,but it has vista and works well.
Netbooks are one point. Then again, makers don't really push for Linux based desktops/laptops because of a lack of consumer demand. If people wanted Linux on their computer, they could build it themselves (which many people do), to cut Windows out of the deal. That's what I did, and I saved myself a couple hundred bucks.
I think the reason for the netbooks running linux is due to people demanding the lowest price...and what would go well with that? Linux!
I found it and its more expensive than the ones you can find at walmart for about $500.00 us dollars.Last year I bought one laptop (not a netbook) for $400.00 us and it comes with vista.
Are you kidding?They have them crap computers made in communist china,not the unionized united states.Yes you buy commie you support commie.The difference goes in the ceos pocket.
It's the way the whole commercial is presented. He's half-whispering to you, face to face, about Linux in a diner. As if this is VERY important for you to know, but you shouldn't know about it. I've been to a meeting of the local Linux users group, and I've used the OS. My next computer will be a Linux.
"My next computer will be a Linux" huh? why wait? you can install right beside your preexisting os, and just use that when you need to, and begin enjoying freedom.
My computer, when I wrote that comment, was a rapidly aging Macintosh. The network board finally went south on it, and now I own a PC (1 week old) with Windoze7, soon to be running Ubuntu Linux.
"Now the power of openess..." - wha? There was no "open" until 7 years later. Mr. Sisko, you have yet to learn. Starfleet academy didn't teach you that one man can write an "operating system". Oh I hate to be a buzz(word) kill for our friendly ally, IBM. Buddy. Champ.
Windows was never made for internet. Windows was made as a stand-alone-computer OS. That why connecting your Windows-machine to internet is just like sending your son to war in Afganistan - sooner or later he will be either killed, captured or wounded badly. And you cry.
Me too. That's why I always use the term GNU/Linux instead of just linux, and talk about Stallman once in a while. By the way, I was amazed by hearing Stallman speaking a fluent spanish! He is just...awesome.
people who think the terminal is a waste of time don't deserve to use computers. without a console, not even windows would be where its at now, and windows is no longer DOS based. in mac and linux, you can do so much more with the terminal than any gui could ever make you do. is it always the best alternative? certainly not, but to think that its a waste of time is just ignorance
This isn't how Linux started, and it wasn't a revolutionary idea to give things away for free, it's how computer programs had always been developed before corporations walked into the game and locked everything down.
Agreed. I can understand why they went that way though: you have to keep the story simple for a commercial. The real details are more interesting, but you can't fit them in between a lite beer commercial and a preview of the next episode of family guy.
1999-Linux is the way the truth and the light! Microsoft is shaking in its boots. 2009 - Linux is just another platform, and licensing costs are minuscule compared to time and material costs. The only people that will argue you into switching are neckbeards that live in a vacuum.
Time and material costs are the same for either OS, you just pay a Linux expert instead of a MS one.
Our company has saved thousands by switching to Linux on a few servers because of licensing costs. We keep a mix of Windows and Linux servers to cater for the various apps we use, but where money can be saved it will be.
Linux is a long term project to achieve an OS built by users, for users. It's a community, and is doing a mighty fine job, getting better every day.
I still believe in linux though. It's much easier to use/maintain compared to 10 years ago, and it will get even easier and better, so long as people continue to work on it.
steve jobs was a visionary too,he made something who could be used by ppl,even if the market was full of windows
and,gates opened the gates for vissionarys
but,ppl hate guys who have succes,but without gates to convince IBM to make small computers,and make all great things,this ad wouldve been made 10 years later than its current date
I wonder why don't most companies use linux like IBM.I mean is faster,cheaper,it can make spreadsheets, Documents, and it has more security to keep the companies information safe.
i want...no. i need linux. how do i install it on a partition on my mac? or should i just find a cheap laptop to experiment? and mint or ubuntu?..... i want linux!
Ubuntu, its the best linux for people new to linux. You could get a live cd, which allows you to try it without installing, or you could install it on a external HDD
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Linux in any flavor is simply not for a novice. its a hacker operating system for hackers. if you dont like coding, compiliing and tinkering, its not your OS. but I do like it.
Ok, yes. While Ubuntu is the first flavor of Linux that I have used that completely supports wireless thanks to the NDIS wrapper. It also allows for hardware that was designed on win. to run in Linux (awesome since alot of hardware is made to be MS compatible). I myself dont use synaptic but rather use apt. However, I still maintain that Linux is for expierenced users or hackers and not for a novice.
That's IF the choice lies only with Windows, Mac, or Linux. But, let's not forget that there are countless other operating systems out there. Such as, the authentic UNIX systems. Solaris is one popular UNIX OS which is often used by professionals on workstation computers or servers. Linux isn't the only other option out there, and it wasn't the first open-sourced OS which was distributed for free. Yet, everyone seems to act like it is, ignoring BSD and the like.
It is an operating system. Though it is being used instead on the GNU/Hurd, and only with the GNU set of editors utilities, it can be used as a standalone system.
You have to learn about the origin of GNU operating system and when Linux kernel is added to GNU operating system. Linux kernel came 10 years after the origin of GNU. Linux kernel is stable and supporting most of the hardwares. That's the reason people are using it as part of the GNU operating system.
i know, that the GNU was supposed to be an operating system. They had all the programs completed but thet were missing the kernel.
When torvalds released linux, people started
using it along with the GNU programs(compilers, editors, linkers etc..) thus the whole thing was called GNU/Linux. But GNU as an operating system was never released. :)
> But GNU as an operating system was never >released. :)
The same for Linux kernel too. Linux as an operating system was never released. It was released only as GNU/Linux. GNU had a kernel called Mach even before Linux came in 1992. So GNU is totally independent of Linux. It can exist even with out Linux kernel. But Linux kernel cannot.
I did not imply that linux can stand on it's own ground. But by pure hardcore definition, the Linux kernel can be considered as an OS, while the GNU utilities cannot. Those are just programs(very important, but still programs)
It depends on what you mean by "Operating System". In general, when refering to the OS, many people are actually referring to the kernel since the kernel controls everything. Really, all the Linux distros are all different versions of the same OS in that case.
GNU came before Linux. Torvalds started to write Linux at the most opportune time, as Hurd was having difficulties because of it's design.
It was Linus, who made the kernel, decided to grab free GNU tools, and he calls Linux kernel an OS with/without them installed. I'd say my source is a nice one, who is yours?
I like stallman's message and I'd want to support FSF. Still They made the tools and gave Linus the freedom to install them with his kernel. Linus' decision is Linux, not GNU/Linux.
but what is kde then... i want to know more about linux. but there is sooooooo much! what is gnu? what is kde? they arent linux right? there pieces. and what about feisty, hardy, feisty fawn, beryl, ect.? is there a vid or page that explains all this clearly. i just moved to mac frm windows i have NO PROB with my mac but linux seems sooo kewl and interesting and just..... revolutionary
as i can tell linux has had just about every major os innovation years before the other guys.
hardy, fiesty are simply codenames to the version of ubuntu you are using, if you go to the ubuntu formums you can probably just search there and find what you are looking for
KDE Is the desktop environment, what controls alot (if all) of the GUI, I use openSUSE and KDE4. with openSUSE being the OS, and KDE being the interface
Hardy Feisty and Fawn are all codenames of ubuntu, but there are loads of other versions of linux (distros) like openSUSE, Fedora, Debian (what ubuntu is made off)
Sure, IBM makes computers, they are just through their partnership with Lenovo. They are still Thinkpads and Think Centers, etc. Just a different logo on them.
MY EARS, THEY BURN
Nanofuture87 6 months ago 2
The Audio used to be perfect on this video. I guess someone really hates IBM/Linux . I wonder who that could be?
stevebalmer 6 months ago
flagged this for physical attack cause my eyes are now fucked up.
codeinjection 6 months ago
I thought I could hear something through that Static. It was saying something about "Linneks". Don't know what that is, but it sounds like a message from the prophets man.
digvoldon 7 months ago
Sisko?!
vondoomindustries 7 months ago
Meh... Audio is broken.
BastetFurry 7 months ago 4
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MissySoilavp853 9 months ago
this was made on windows
doombybbr 9 months ago
Fuck you, what the fuck is this shit.
Omicron91 9 months ago 4
Please delete this video.
CharlesP2009 10 months ago 10
THE SISKO!!!!!
LordAzanko 11 months ago
linux is the only thing other companies make ads for
doemaeries 1 year ago
audio was bad!
friarmeier 1 year ago 7
audio trouble!
fuserjobim 1 year ago 6
i bet that's he shooting aids from his black dick when he talks , that's so racist.
backtublive 1 year ago
haha nothing like machine-gun fire at full volume
fr0sth4x0r 1 year ago
WWTTTTTFFFFFF????????????
YainVieyra 1 year ago 5
I'm going to sue Youtube.
metronome7161 1 year ago
@metronome7161 dont sue jewtoob sue this guy
mrsonicmanperson 1 year ago
The audio was corrupted when youtube did their new player update.
coldReactive 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
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Linux4UnMe 1 year ago
Audio is horrible
JoCaGoVi 1 year ago 6
audi corrupted
zap117 1 year ago 3
@datsG Heh... Couldn't have described it any better with less words. He's got it wrong on quite a few levels.
Linusti 1 year ago
My ears are bleeding...
m3phisto666 1 year ago 3
WTF is that noise????
Hack3rINC 1 year ago
Why do they insist on telling the facts wrong, that's just not good practice.
jimmybrite 1 year ago
Linux was not a new operating system. It's Linus basically re-writing the UNIX kernel. It's heavily based on BSD UNIX. With some creative copying of System V code, in a way that did not infringe on copyrights.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
@Nomoreidsleft Heh... It's not got any System V code in there. In order to get the code in there, you're going to trip across Copyrights. It should be known the company that claimed this is in a Chapter 11 proceeding, about to face the music for Lanham Act violations. And, it's not heavily based on BSD- it's something quite a bit different with bits and bobs from BSD (Which is legit, mind...) and stuff wholly new.
Linusti 1 year ago
@Linusti I never said that Linux had any AT&T or Berkeley code in it. However, working with UNIX OSes for Almost 20 years, I've worked with BSD, and SysV code, and play with Linux for fun. Basically the idea behind Linux in the beginning was, "let's see how we can put this BSD or SysV functionality into Linux". There's only so many ways you can write loops, or open a file, so although not cut and paste, code is very similar. MULTICS is the one true OS from which AT&T was based.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
Is that Captain Sisko?
hseldon10 1 year ago
@hseldon10
LOL
ethicks00 1 year ago
The IBM-Intel-Microsoft monopoly has ensured our level of technology has stuck to a very precise roadmap set out by IBM employee, Gordon Moore. It is the empirical observation that the transistor density of integrated circuits doubles every 2 years. Enabling them to sell us software and hardware at a known rate, allowing the software to demand the upgrade in hardware and vice versa.
People should have listened to the "geeks", 15 years ago. Linux frees us from the software, we need hardware.
jacksawild 1 year ago
I wonder if he has Dax's phone number.
Zoomer30 1 year ago 2
huhuhm jemand bei laune und lust mit mir zu chatn hab auch bilder wenn ihr sehen wollt
ShebaMouett40 1 year ago
CAPTAIN SISKO!!!!
cdavidgonzalez 1 year ago
Hell yeah! Sisko endorses Linux!
kill9tv 1 year ago 2
lol, Benjamin Sisko :D
biboKralle 1 year ago
A regional intergalactic power invades and subjugates a peaceful civilization. After decades of occupation, this civilization succeeds in throwing off the yoke of imperial rule and casting away their occupiers. It is then befriended by a powerful, benevolent civilization, which is charged with protecting the newly independent world by setting up a command center in a former mining station, which was stripped, retrofitted and improved and now running... Linux.
martini1179 1 year ago 6
Avery Brooks endorsing Linux is a big step in the right direction.
Yldii 1 year ago
This gives "enterprise linux" a whole new meaning.
oraclecrank 1 year ago
mention the real guy richard stallman He create this GNU/linux now known as linux by mistake
edwardrendon 1 year ago
this is the best commercial, it embodies what made the OS good.
I use W7, i would dual boot but beryl doesn't like my ATI 4850.
RealNeurotiq 1 year ago 2
latest distro of ubuntu doesnt use beryl per-say i think they got around a lot of issues, with compatibility i couldnt use 8.10 on my Nvidea but alls good now
Bartinili 1 year ago
i noticed that
desktop effects?
im out of the linux loop for a year and look what happens, its meta ctrl 12 to get the cube now lol.
i love it, I though W7 was stiff competition there for a while, i adore the new kubuntu.
i cant stand gnome but thats just my personal opinion, I like a lot of the widgets on KDE.
I recommend anyone reading to look into the new Kubuntu or other debian distros, gentoo is fun but only if you like logic games
RealNeurotiq 1 year ago
OMG It's Capitan Cisco from Deep Space 9
I thought he was with the wormhole profits
OSyTim 2 years ago
Honestly, if I wasn't such an avid gamer, and there weren't weird problems with my wireless Realtek device (though I'm sure it might be fixed soon), I'd be using the Linux Ubuntu distro by now.
Windows: oh hey it's broken after 6 months even with top protection.
Linux: Woah it works, and better!
Gah, somebody make DirectX 9 open source. Hell, I wish they could steal it and spread it everywhere... and once that happenes, there's no way they can stop it, no matter how many silly laws they have.
DTurboKiller 2 years ago 2
@DTurboKiller Why not do what Linus Torvalds did and write your own and share it with the world?
Lievearn 1 year ago
Oh I would, but I just don't have any of the skills for that. But I wish.
Right now Wine and Cedega are the best options, but if they were merged and free like they should be, using only donations with a bonus of getting the latest versions earlier, it would be a benefit for all of the community. But alas, Cedega team succumbed to greed. Bah.
Ah well, as long as Winblows still works, I can get things done, not that it'll last that long. Good thing Game Maker is trying to be cross-compatible...
DTurboKiller 1 year ago
very nice, I have gotta get my Linux cds from home. (I work away alot) windows had a patch just two days ago, guess what happened right after the patch ran. Blue screen of death was what happened.
Iwaki96 2 years ago 2
I have found Many times update for windows is what crashes it.
maw88ify 2 years ago
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LeodimeII 2 years ago
The Sisko has spoken.
toasteroven2001 2 years ago 4
So it shall be!!!
madhi19 2 years ago
yes OMG
The profits want us to use Linux
OSyTim 2 years ago
Its time to move past the VLSI urban sprawl x86 architecture for starters.
Then you have to move past an inferior operating system like Windows.
If you had a car that crashed once every 2 weeks, the CEO's of that company would be torn to pieces ... why not Gates and Ballmer?
The best operating system is Solaris 10 ... most stable ... most scalable ... highest performing ... yes more than Linux or anything else!
nightowl8936 2 years ago
So you support Windows removing x86 support in Windows 8?
To be honest, I still have a laptop that is x86 only.
coldReactive 2 years ago
coldReactive asks:
"So you support Windows removing x86 support in Windows 8?"
I am saying that they should have removed compatability with the 8086 and 80286 that is still there in the decode unit of the processor, and chewing up real estate and making things bloated.
They should also pass a law that if an operating system company decides to stop supporting an OS, they MUST release source code to others so that an aftermarket can be created to support older OS's that people still use.
nightowl8936 2 years ago 2
I'm pretty sure you can get a refund for the cost of a Microsoft OS if you buy a computer with it preinstalled and elect to load something like Linux as a replacement. That makes hardware support, rather than pre-loaded OS, the key factor in whether a computer locks you into a proprietary OS.
somanypenpals 2 years ago
Not if the Windows distro is OEM, which is what's almost invariably shipped with new computers.
KileSimons 2 years ago
Its in ibms financial interest to support linux,they sell the computer at the same price if it had windows,but install linux for that machine and pocket that much more profit.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago 4
Actually if you take a look at the prices of Windows vs. Linux-based computers, Linux-based ones are routinely less expensive.
11111011 2 years ago
Other than dell,where are they?
MrTabby5000 2 years ago 2
Oh,you must be talking them netbooks,well the netbooks are not the same as a full sized laptop.
AS for dell pricing $1,000 for a new linux laptop.I purchased mine with vista for $500.00 from walmart in june.Its an older unsold model until I bought,but it has vista and works well.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
Netbooks are one point. Then again, makers don't really push for Linux based desktops/laptops because of a lack of consumer demand. If people wanted Linux on their computer, they could build it themselves (which many people do), to cut Windows out of the deal. That's what I did, and I saved myself a couple hundred bucks.
I think the reason for the netbooks running linux is due to people demanding the lowest price...and what would go well with that? Linux!
11111011 2 years ago
MrTabby: system76
coldReactive 2 years ago
@coldReactive
Whats this system 76?
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
@MrTabby5000
I found it and its more expensive than the ones you can find at walmart for about $500.00 us dollars.Last year I bought one laptop (not a netbook) for $400.00 us and it comes with vista.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
Or possibly pass the savings on to their customers (gasp), and gain reputation points.
KileSimons 2 years ago 2
Are you kidding?They have them crap computers made in communist china,not the unionized united states.Yes you buy commie you support commie.The difference goes in the ceos pocket.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
+1
I love sarcasm ^^
SjoerdReligion 2 years ago
You didnt deny my statement.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
"It's a different kind of world" by which standard? To which "other world" is our world compared here? Damn you IBM ruining Linux and all.
xqyzii 2 years ago
It's the way the whole commercial is presented. He's half-whispering to you, face to face, about Linux in a diner. As if this is VERY important for you to know, but you shouldn't know about it. I've been to a meeting of the local Linux users group, and I've used the OS. My next computer will be a Linux.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
"My next computer will be a Linux" huh? why wait? you can install right beside your preexisting os, and just use that when you need to, and begin enjoying freedom.
iamted5522 2 years ago
My computer, when I wrote that comment, was a rapidly aging Macintosh. The network board finally went south on it, and now I own a PC (1 week old) with Windoze7, soon to be running Ubuntu Linux.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago 5
He makes Linux sound like something either highly illegal or a treat to the status quo.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
I could listen to Avery Brooks speak all day. The man has such a commanding voice.
CNash85 2 years ago 3
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Yeah, IBM support Linux by spouting inaccurate nonsense by the sounds of it.
matt9741399 2 years ago
actually Linux supports IBM -.-
haikk 2 years ago 64
"Now the power of openess..." - wha? There was no "open" until 7 years later. Mr. Sisko, you have yet to learn. Starfleet academy didn't teach you that one man can write an "operating system". Oh I hate to be a buzz(word) kill for our friendly ally, IBM. Buddy. Champ.
someman7 2 years ago
Windows was never made for internet. Windows was made as a stand-alone-computer OS. That why connecting your Windows-machine to internet is just like sending your son to war in Afganistan - sooner or later he will be either killed, captured or wounded badly. And you cry.
tranmere789 2 years ago 79
@tranmere789 So, If i send a child to Afganistan, ill shout at it and turn it off because it´s useless and has unrealistic hitboxes.
MrRandomVideos2010 1 year ago
i wish everything would work with linux, and from stupid google.
HongKongKanto 2 years ago
Google users Linux they they use there own version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu
CornishCreamtea07 2 years ago
Wrong, Google Chrome OS is based on OpenSUSE.
I've tested the Beta version of the OS myself.
UltimatePisman 2 years ago
Google Chrom OS is the one there distributing. Goobuntu is the one THERE employees use which is there version of Ubuntu.
CornishCreamtea07 2 years ago
That Goobuntu is a myth.
At least, that's what I've heard.
UltimatePisman 2 years ago
so it's an open case, but it sounds possible.
CornishCreamtea07 2 years ago
i'm so annoyed that everyone is forgetting richard stallman.
martincrotty 2 years ago 6
Me too. That's why I always use the term GNU/Linux instead of just linux, and talk about Stallman once in a while. By the way, I was amazed by hearing Stallman speaking a fluent spanish! He is just...awesome.
DCXRevolution 2 years ago
holy shit capt Sisko!
distiler 2 years ago 4
That's what I was thinking :p
Aikiarntsen 2 years ago
people who think the terminal is a waste of time don't deserve to use computers. without a console, not even windows would be where its at now, and windows is no longer DOS based. in mac and linux, you can do so much more with the terminal than any gui could ever make you do. is it always the best alternative? certainly not, but to think that its a waste of time is just ignorance
schmidtbag 2 years ago 13
This isn't how Linux started, and it wasn't a revolutionary idea to give things away for free, it's how computer programs had always been developed before corporations walked into the game and locked everything down.
GreyRockStudio 2 years ago 4
Yeah actually source was being given away for free ages before Linux...
Actually, GNU was doing that WAY before LInux, and Linux is just the kernel for GNU / Linux.
But it's good marketing. "We're revolutionary, yay"
cyborgtroy 2 years ago 4
Agreed. I can understand why they went that way though: you have to keep the story simple for a commercial. The real details are more interesting, but you can't fit them in between a lite beer commercial and a preview of the next episode of family guy.
starsiegeplayer 2 years ago 2
Avery brooks makes everything epic.
zwaps 2 years ago 7
Google = Dead 4 World
Linux = Living 4 Ever
Windows = Same as Google... but worse
Mac = $10,000 to live? : (
The People Say Linux... Now to GET RID OF MY XP!
TheGeekMonkey2 2 years ago 3
Why are you using youtube then?
dtfageet 2 years ago
these ads are shocking...
JackieChan173 2 years ago
Linux and google will rule the world one day its just a matter of time. i use linux as a recovery tool for windows at work and home :)
ProjectZro 2 years ago 5
google is evil i said that in 2 vids :P
uut0 2 years ago
You're missing the point - Linux frees the world from being ruled!
thedarkener 2 years ago 3
1999-Linux is the way the truth and the light! Microsoft is shaking in its boots. 2009 - Linux is just another platform, and licensing costs are minuscule compared to time and material costs. The only people that will argue you into switching are neckbeards that live in a vacuum.
fartamplifer 2 years ago 7
Time and material costs are the same for either OS, you just pay a Linux expert instead of a MS one.
Our company has saved thousands by switching to Linux on a few servers because of licensing costs. We keep a mix of Windows and Linux servers to cater for the various apps we use, but where money can be saved it will be.
Linux is a long term project to achieve an OS built by users, for users. It's a community, and is doing a mighty fine job, getting better every day.
soggydoggy2k6 2 years ago 4
And where are all the Macintosh servers? BA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
jedispy 2 years ago
Sad but true.
I still believe in linux though. It's much easier to use/maintain compared to 10 years ago, and it will get even easier and better, so long as people continue to work on it.
locusSol 2 years ago 4
he was a vissionary
steve jobs was a visionary too,he made something who could be used by ppl,even if the market was full of windows
and,gates opened the gates for vissionarys
but,ppl hate guys who have succes,but without gates to convince IBM to make small computers,and make all great things,this ad wouldve been made 10 years later than its current date
Nodle66 2 years ago 2
Jobs & Gates are in the bussines for the money, not Linus.
osmodivs 2 years ago 2
well,Jobs is for money,his shit costs too much,for too little uses.
and gates sells good stuff at low prices
and,i admit that i like tipping wrong,but i never type important nouns like Linux or Mac in a wrong way
Nodle66 2 years ago
I love linux, mac, bsd... Basically anything thats not windows.
jforce93 2 years ago
IBM + Linux > mac pro + osx....... mac = fail
gtastuntcrew302 2 years ago 4
I wonder why don't most companies use linux like IBM.I mean is faster,cheaper,it can make spreadsheets, Documents, and it has more security to keep the companies information safe.
wolfpwn13 2 years ago
Captain Benjamin Sisko! :D
lejonicom 2 years ago 4
I support both. Ive bought an IBM server and i use Linux on it.
lNOOBlHippie 2 years ago 7
The future is open, so say goodbye to Microsoft.
ibpointless2 2 years ago 2
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linux sucks
Drumnerd101 3 years ago
lol?
only os that is 100% virus free
DUMBASS
bigranger16 3 years ago
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Um mac user for hmm 6 years and i've never had a virus. so yea.
Drumnerd101 3 years ago
to bad macs still get viruses
read the news?
bigranger16 3 years ago 2
learn your shit?
bigranger16 3 years ago
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silly penguin linux sucks dick.
Drumnerd101 3 years ago
thats exactly why is has 100% less viruses than macs
DUMB FUCK
go smoke so more pot maybe it will reverse your retardedness
bigranger16 3 years ago
haha iwill light up some chronic seeing as im from Jamaica it grows on the side of the road over hear ha u douche
Drumnerd101 3 years ago
have fun :)
bigranger16 3 years ago 2
viva la revolution!
i want...no. i need linux. how do i install it on a partition on my mac? or should i just find a cheap laptop to experiment? and mint or ubuntu?..... i want linux!
setheroon1 3 years ago
Ubuntu, its the best linux for people new to linux. You could get a live cd, which allows you to try it without installing, or you could install it on a external HDD
brad828 2 years ago 7
you can also install it on a flash card as well
focuswarrior 2 years ago 4
Kubuntu?
FacultyFan 2 years ago
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Linux in any flavor is simply not for a novice. its a hacker operating system for hackers. if you dont like coding, compiliing and tinkering, its not your OS. but I do like it.
FacultyFan 2 years ago
I beg to differ. Ubuntu is a very friendly OS, and with synaptic, can install programs that a novice needs easily.
And its not just used by hackers.
brad828 2 years ago 9
Ok, yes. While Ubuntu is the first flavor of Linux that I have used that completely supports wireless thanks to the NDIS wrapper. It also allows for hardware that was designed on win. to run in Linux (awesome since alot of hardware is made to be MS compatible). I myself dont use synaptic but rather use apt. However, I still maintain that Linux is for expierenced users or hackers and not for a novice.
FacultyFan 2 years ago
What kind of "hacker" or "experienced user" uses apt over aptitude?
vkkim 2 years ago
Live CDs have been around for years. Knoppix, slax (Slackware) etc.
FacultyFan 2 years ago
Windows is dieing, if the choice is linux or mac for the future? I pick linux.
liquidthex 3 years ago 6
That's IF the choice lies only with Windows, Mac, or Linux. But, let's not forget that there are countless other operating systems out there. Such as, the authentic UNIX systems. Solaris is one popular UNIX OS which is often used by professionals on workstation computers or servers. Linux isn't the only other option out there, and it wasn't the first open-sourced OS which was distributed for free. Yet, everyone seems to act like it is, ignoring BSD and the like.
michinobu 3 years ago
heh, always wondered what happened to him after Star Trek...
AmberwiseTheWise 3 years ago
> But GNU as an operating system was never >released. :)
The same for Linux kernel too. Linux as an operating system was never released. It is released only as GNU/Linux.
joscollin 3 years ago
Linux is not an operating System. It is one of the kernels of the GNU operating System
joscollin 3 years ago
It is an operating system. Though it is being used instead on the GNU/Hurd, and only with the GNU set of editors utilities, it can be used as a standalone system.
arkara87 3 years ago
You have to learn about the origin of GNU operating system and when Linux kernel is added to GNU operating system. Linux kernel came 10 years after the origin of GNU. Linux kernel is stable and supporting most of the hardwares. That's the reason people are using it as part of the GNU operating system.
joscollin 3 years ago
i know, that the GNU was supposed to be an operating system. They had all the programs completed but thet were missing the kernel.
When torvalds released linux, people started
using it along with the GNU programs(compilers, editors, linkers etc..) thus the whole thing was called GNU/Linux. But GNU as an operating system was never released. :)
arkara87 3 years ago
> But GNU as an operating system was never >released. :)
The same for Linux kernel too. Linux as an operating system was never released. It was released only as GNU/Linux. GNU had a kernel called Mach even before Linux came in 1992. So GNU is totally independent of Linux. It can exist even with out Linux kernel. But Linux kernel cannot.
joscollin 3 years ago
I did not imply that linux can stand on it's own ground. But by pure hardcore definition, the Linux kernel can be considered as an OS, while the GNU utilities cannot. Those are just programs(very important, but still programs)
arkara87 3 years ago
It depends on what you mean by "Operating System". In general, when refering to the OS, many people are actually referring to the kernel since the kernel controls everything. Really, all the Linux distros are all different versions of the same OS in that case.
michinobu 3 years ago 2
I think that that's more of a licensing issue, right?
michinobu 3 years ago
GNU came before Linux. Torvalds started to write Linux at the most opportune time, as Hurd was having difficulties because of it's design.
It was Linus, who made the kernel, decided to grab free GNU tools, and he calls Linux kernel an OS with/without them installed. I'd say my source is a nice one, who is yours?
I like stallman's message and I'd want to support FSF. Still They made the tools and gave Linus the freedom to install them with his kernel. Linus' decision is Linux, not GNU/Linux.
ollim 3 years ago 6
but what is kde then... i want to know more about linux. but there is sooooooo much! what is gnu? what is kde? they arent linux right? there pieces. and what about feisty, hardy, feisty fawn, beryl, ect.? is there a vid or page that explains all this clearly. i just moved to mac frm windows i have NO PROB with my mac but linux seems sooo kewl and interesting and just..... revolutionary
as i can tell linux has had just about every major os innovation years before the other guys.
setheroon1 3 years ago
hardy, fiesty are simply codenames to the version of ubuntu you are using, if you go to the ubuntu formums you can probably just search there and find what you are looking for
ganonspike 3 years ago
KDE Is the desktop environment, what controls alot (if all) of the GUI, I use openSUSE and KDE4. with openSUSE being the OS, and KDE being the interface
Hardy Feisty and Fawn are all codenames of ubuntu, but there are loads of other versions of linux (distros) like openSUSE, Fedora, Debian (what ubuntu is made off)
brad828 2 years ago
I ordered a IBM with linux and its great I love it better then Windows
doonbugie 3 years ago 3
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Are you for real?
Or are you just trying to be funny?
Cause you're joke's weak.
IBM Doesn't Make Computers Anymore.
hpchris2006 3 years ago
Well they make workstations with characteristics of a home PC (home processors and technology) but somehow for the power market..
Ryoga2K 3 years ago
Sure, IBM makes computers, they are just through their partnership with Lenovo. They are still Thinkpads and Think Centers, etc. Just a different logo on them.
And yes, you can get it with Windows or Linux OS.
dvanderwekke 3 years ago
My IBM Laptop is with Linux Fedora 9... i just love it :D
gezimstyle 3 years ago
oh yea well my 4core 8gb monster runs ubuntu, gentoo, and fedora
modmadmike2 3 years ago
Is IBM charging for linux?
mozaks80 3 years ago
it would be kinda dumb...
metasuperhyper 3 years ago
Morpheus!
mikeabundo 3 years ago 4
Um, no. It's Avery Brooks.
WagglyCocks 3 years ago
Um, yeah. It was a joke.
mikeabundo 3 years ago 3
Remeber the old Apple comercial?
Damn, the world changes... :)
Yezu666 3 years ago 3
WoHo Linux jeah !
Open source for the world !
xXEduBuntuXx 3 years ago
IBM IS COMING TO RAEP US ALL
With the help of open source software, ftw!
Joking, but that is pretty sick. Linux needs some big name support and there it is, AWESOME!
ja77ke 3 years ago 12
Captain Sisko!
ballantrae101 3 years ago 6
Avery Brooks is my hero!
gnawingonfoot 3 years ago 5
I'm going to "favorite" this video, but not here, the one someone else posted WITHOUT the stupid URL stamped on the bottom!
velvethandofdarkness 3 years ago
good, but what's with the URL stamped at the bottom right hand corner of the video? Why are people doing this, knock it off! It's annoying!
velvethandofdarkness 3 years ago
Go Avery Brooks!!!!
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madhi19 3 years ago
Linux isn't an operating system, it is a kernel.
ModernGeek 3 years ago
UNIX is a kernel
HacMyTosh 3 years ago 4
Si, el sistema completo se llama GNU/Linux, pero es mas comodo llamarle simplemente Linux.
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If the entire system is called GNU / Linux, but is more comfortable simply call Linux
HebiNOHi 3 years ago
YOUR MOM IS A KERNEL
bobfet1 3 years ago 2
ibm isn't a computer its a company... lol
renkor3 3 year