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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on April 09, 2003, 10:02:57 AM

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: GmanJoe on April 09, 2003, 10:02:57 AM

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2132851,00.html

Yeah.....Beemers are thinking of not rebooting but booting Windows CE in favor of Linux. :D

It\'s not quite console related, nor is it quite PC related....so it goes HERE! OFF TOPIC!

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: EmperorRob on April 09, 2003, 12:10:30 PM

Speaking of embedded linux:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8421395858.html

This is a first.

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: mm on April 09, 2003, 01:57:51 PM

like i said, in 5 years, m$ will be in the closet unless they change thier practices

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: fastson on April 09, 2003, 02:55:31 PM

The government here is having a lot of problems with Windows products, plus it costs too much (upgrades, repairs ect), so they have threatened to go over to Linux.
Now MS is trying to cut a deal with them, I hope they don’t accept it ;)

I’m a Linux n00b so question:
Is there any Linux version that works similar to Windows. Like you don’t need to use commands and such?

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: EmperorRob on April 09, 2003, 04:17:01 PM

The only difficult part is installation.  Once you got it up and running if you used say, KDE, you\'d be in familiar territority.  Check out http://www.distrowatch.com

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: mm on April 09, 2003, 07:13:27 PM

commands?  it;s not 1996 ya know

i can sit someone in front of linux thats never seen it before and it would take a few minutes for them to tell me it\'s not windows

(just a random screenshot i found)
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rocklinux.org%2Fprojects%2Fdrock%2Fscreens%2Fkde-martin2.jpg&hash=1bd37d5ce53bf6266f7cbc2fc2d0a5e905afe516)

http://www.redhat.com
all you need

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: fastson on April 10, 2003, 03:57:29 AM

Ok seems good :)

I\'ve never used Linux. I downloaded it once but never installed it (chickened out).
I think I\'ll format my laptop and use it to learn Linux.

I just need to find that damn network adapter thingy (don’t want to buy another PC-Card Network card) :(

Title: Sony, BMW and Linux and a snubbed Windows CE.
Post by: EmperorRob on April 10, 2003, 11:45:46 AM

Oh you want screenshots? :)

http://www.geocities.com/emperorrob