Anyone using that here? Probably not many. It's great, although I only use it to get familiar with it since my career (IT), but still it's great. All the software you want in your PC for free, not a damn penny paid for OS-es, no viruses and very stable.

I got Ubuntu 8.10 with Gnome, although the new KDE looks very nice. It's getting very user friendly too..I would recommend the KDE for starters but still, far away from convincing the majority, due to missing drivers for various stuff and just understanding how it works.

Anyway, here is some eye candy, Compiz-Fusion for Linux, very cool. For girls: Geeky sh!t)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w

I have been thinking about downloading it, MS sucks!!!!!

well, if you aren't familiar with it make sure you keep your Windows installation. Maybe get another hard drive running if you don't have another partition on your hard drive.

I might use it after I take my class on it.

I work with Unix Servers all day long and have had my hands deep in the open source world for many years :-)

I've been running Ubuntu for a couple of year now. Right now I have one Linux Machine, and one Windows machine. The Windows machine runs Media center as a Tivo machine, Play a couple of games, and those few websites that will not accept being accessed from anything not running windows. (I'm looking at you NetFlix, one of the reasons you got cancelled.)

Damn! netflx was the reason I keep a Windows vista on my machine, and also the digital download of movies. (Last night: Dark Knight)

Otherwise, lately I'm getting a lot of blue-screens in vista, due to my computer configuration. Asrock dual core + Nvidia graphics card don't mix well, as I figured out.

I'm also thinking about installing openSuse to another partition to see what's the fuzz is all about.

Ubuntu user here, couldn't resist the looks of Compiz, Emerald themes and the Desktop cube =)
Oh, and Vista for gaming.

DSL - Demi Sweet Linux!

I just saw an interesting article on Linux today.

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html

That was funny. I'd love to hear if there's any follow-up after the meeting with the teacher.

here is another interesting article:

Is the Microsoft Empire Cracking?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/109960-is-the-microsoft-empire-cracking

IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux PCs
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212202109&cid=iwhome_art_Open+_mostpop

I think those posting here might enjoy this.

From http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ignorant-teacher-linux-in-education.html

Wow.. a completely ignorant teacher. This clearly demonstrate problem faced by GNU/Linux in class room.

A teacher (from Austin, TX) came to students and confiscated the Linux Live CDs. Next, she wrote an angry email to HeliOS's project founder, Ken Starks:

After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them

Read on ken's reply: Linux - Stop holding our kids back

Perhaps, some one need to educate the teacher and point out that Linux is being used by governments, private & public corporations, and millions of embedded home appliances are powered by Linux.

Linux is a great system I agree but I must point out to all that say it is virus free that the only reason for that is that it as such a low average of the market that no Viruses are conceive to attack it. Change it to the 90% plus share of windows and you would see how it can be attack like Windows is, the vast majority of viruses trojan malware and rootkits and any of them are conceive to attack windows only so even if you receive an email with one attach on a Linux machine it won't do anything to your machine but you might help spreading it if you forward that same message to other Windows users. Just think of this if you were creating a virus to take over PC's would do it to the ones that are using Windows around 95% (average)Mac 4% (average) or Linux 1% (average).

There are already virus programs for Linux from the openware sources.

While it is true that there are viruses for Linux, He has a point that the low number of target Linux machines keeps the virus writers from writing as much for it.

That being said, as I understand it, the default Linux setup with root and user accounts being separate helps minimize the damage a virus infection by one user could wreak on the whole system.

I could stand to learn more about linux.. didn't the NSA develop a version of Linux?

DSL - Delightfully Simple Linux!!

the linux that works on pretty much any machine with a cd drive
and some that don't even have that

I am doing that on my own...I like it. Complicated things attract me, although some others wouldn't call Linux complicated, but everyone has his/her level.

www.linux.org
www.ubuntu.com

That's part of the beauty of it. Anybody can make their version of Linux.