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I don't claim to know much about the BSDs but it is my understanding that FreeBSD is a distribution of BSD as Kubuntu is to KDE/QT/X.org/GNU/Linux? If that is the case calling it FreeBSD is proper. ...

Aside from not completely agreeing with Mr. Stallman on his philisophical views of software economics if he had his way I would have to refer to my system as a KDE/Qt/X.org/GNU/Linux box. To me his...

You know....

Someone needs to come up with a new, better, standard for sending emails. Something that includes some kind of checks and balances to verify that the sending email address actually...

hlrguy..

I clicked on your link, "Linux Native Replacements for Windows Programs" I must say that is the prettiest 404/Not Found page I have seen yet. ;)

Michael

Shocker to those who know me....

Anyway, you know, right now there are still a good bit of hardware vendors that don't want to open up their code or specifications or whatever for decent drivers...

Would have been more funny as a true story. :)

I, from time to time, have the same problem with firefox. Have for sometime now. It doesn't seem to be at the top of their list to fix soooooo I have learned to live with it. It happens on windows...

Is that a true story?

I must have gotten lucky.

I installed norton antivirus, antispyware, personal firewall, and (can't remember the other part) and I haven't noticed a noticable slowdown in speed on my computer. ...

Yes, I prefer Kubuntu. Although SuSe is a great distro.

There is probably some truth to that. Still simple things like some games or other things. Really this problem will only get worse until...

While I agree with you in terms of programs etc. I am speaking more in terms of OS options etc. There is no editing of text files etc. in windows. Or very little I should say compared to linux. ...

You get no disagreement from me there. Just that when it does work it is easier to use... Why just last week MS Winblows would not allow me to open folders. Gave me some BS memory in the wrong...

The thing that keeps people on winblows, and this is where microsoft is smart, is most people like easy. They want stuff to just work. They don't care how it works, or why it works. They just want...

I agree. I learned a lot with my Gentoo experience. In the end I love Gentoo. The only reason I am not running it now is I bought a new computer and don't feel like the long lengthy install.
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I second that.

You can always do either
#command --help
or
#man command
to get help on how to use a particular command line program.

tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

I personally find it beyond disturbing. But, hey, that is just me.

http://www.kernel.org/ now mentions 2.6.9 as the latest stable.

The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.9 2004-10-18 22:10 UTC F V VI C Changelog

Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.08

I found this link at the bottom of the main page:
Link to opinion

I could agree with the opinion in the linked to article under four conditions.
1) Laws are passed which would make it much...

If you are dialup you might try buying the knoppix CD from somplace.
http://linuxcd.org/view_distro.php?lst=1&id_cate=21&id_distro=17


If you are running windows you will want to use one of...

My wife goes to snopes every day. I get subjected to the odd news of what is true and what is not. Otherwise I don't normally care. :)

In the event there are people who don't actually understand that the picture he linked to is a joke:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

EDIT: Or you can just visit the URL in the...

I think his problem is something in the lines of: He has given users who can use sudo the ability to -at the least- use an editor such as emacs as the superuser.

Now all they have to do is:...

You should be able to do what you want with smbfs compiled into the kernel.