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An article about the creator can be found here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6761

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[Zachary Wilcox]

Who originally did this video? 

[kenbo111]

His name is Chris Hill. The original website ubergeek.tv is gone now, but there's an article about the vid and him on linux journal

[Zachary Wilcox]

Do you know how to find the rest of his videos? I'm mainly in search of intellitoast.

[kenbo111]

I've been searching but not having much luck.

[SolidKnight]

That's a very uninformed statement. Whether or not it works depends highly on how you compile it and whether or not you have access to fifteen year old dependencies. Sure, your hello world program will probably compile and run--which is true on Windows as well--but more complicated programs will most likely not. Then of course you ignore the amazing amount of backwards compatibility Windows has. I can install a wide array of software that is ten to twenty years old but of course, not all.

[sbkhaan1]

You're just mad because you dunno how to install linux.

[Michael Haney]

The stuff you have to do to get Linux running is true...if you go back in time machine about 10 years. Today, installing, updating, and configuring Linux is no harder than Windows or Mac. In some cases its easier, because most of the configurations are done for you during the install process.

Linux has come a very long way in 10 years. Its no longer something for just geeks and programmers. Now its something anyone can use. If you've ever used a Mac then you'd be comfortable running Linux.

[Damian Pound]

I have a simple script that just opens the stuff I need for working on a project at work.

dolphin (file manager) at project location, terminal, gedit with two files, empty Notepad++ (it's a great editor, even if I have to use wine...), and Firefox at my computer's bazaar branch of it (using AMP (why do people specify a kernel/OS when referring to it?)).

[DusteDdekay]

3 years later, and I've learnt a thing or two, my old binary blob for Soldier of Fortune no longer runs on my modern day linux, but my windows-binary of the game still works just fine on Windows.. Out of interest, which app do you still use? :)

[JoseJimeniz]

i bought an app in 1993 for Windows 3.1. It still runs on Windows 8 64-bit; and i still use it.

[TekNSchtuff]

Regardless of if it's good for YOU or OTHERs on their desktop, laptop, cellphone, what have you. Can we all agree that Linux completely dominates the large business IT, high powered computing, cloud infrastructure and over all data center sectors? Ive never been in or read of a single data center than wasn't majority Linux with some niche pockets of windows server, sun boxes, etc etc.

[TekNSchtuff]

The beauty of linux distros is they all have their own philosophies on when their 'OS' should be. Some refuse things like flash out the box, some refuse things like firefox's TM'd logo. Some don't care about any of that and have very few restrictions.