Post Aa5nSF4gUTf8JO1azI by SirMalinowski@noagendasocial.com
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(DIR) Post #Aa5jgnlntHxM9gsehc by furgar@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:03:55Z
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Is this true about Microsoft's Windows operating system?https://tastingtraffic.net/@JustBlameWayne/111104661915277599
(DIR) Post #Aa5jv31byCGRWQ4FQu by newt@stereophonic.space
2023-09-24T12:06:09.042790Z
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@furgar i tried reading that and now my eyes bleed :akko_aaa:
(DIR) Post #Aa5k5h75mEoCkXhwbg by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-09-24T12:08:20.656306Z
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@furgar no.
(DIR) Post #Aa5kD2MPBCPWfnN692 by dibiase@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:09:44Z
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@furgar If the point they're trying to make is that windows was originally an app and not a full OS, yes that was true with Windows 3.1 and earlier and could be argued with some success for the Win9x line, but has not been the case since the introduction of Windows NT in 90's Much like Linux you can remove the graphical shell and distill the experience down to a command prompt, but its Windows NT all the way down the the kernel.
(DIR) Post #Aa5kYlBJjMuBlTXlNA by Meachamus_Prime@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:13:40Z
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@Moon @furgar Yes, for the most part. They rectified most the issues with the Windows 7 kernel, but they still are fundamentally a vulnerable, single-user operating system with multiple users as an after thought, whereas Linux was multiuser from the beginning. Windows has become more stable over the years, but it keeps back stepping as they add new "features" where Linux tends to get its new features verified as stable long before mainstream use.Linux is just a better OS.
(DIR) Post #Aa5krC5qPcg6RUm21w by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-09-24T12:16:57.794945Z
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@Meachamus_Prime @furgar it was never "originally a desktop application" and the NT kernel since the beginning was multiuser and represented a clean break from windows 3/9x. which one is better depends on your workload and your philosophy on ownership, although I won't use windows because it spies on you.
(DIR) Post #Aa5lNIWw10lrfmklXM by Meachamus_Prime@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:22:48Z
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@Moon @furgar Yes, exactly! Windows 3.x/9x was the desktop application for DOS. You are correct that NT was intended to be multiuser, but, as I said, it wasn't functionally multiuser until Windows 7, and even then it was a hack job that had to be fixed multiple times to get there. Now if they would have stayed with that stable multiuser philosophy for all the following major updates to their kernel, it might have remained competitive.
(DIR) Post #Aa5lmdqPuGod18x0Vs by GluedToTheScreen@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:27:23Z
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@Meachamus_PrimeI had high hopes when MS hired Cutler from DEC...... VMS was great. @Moon @furgar
(DIR) Post #Aa5lsfrlIq7F1cSMXA by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-09-24T12:28:26.552794Z
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@Meachamus_Prime @furgar it ran on top of DOS but DOS was barely an operating system. after Windows was bootstrapped it directly accessed hardware. the history of the 3.x/9x kernels are not relevant to NT.I have never heard that Windows was not full multiuser until 7, I'm interested to learn more.
(DIR) Post #Aa5mJEiqKabGetwznE by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-09-24T12:33:15.885041Z
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@Meachamus_Prime @furgar btw the guy who runs tastingtraffic is definitely mentally ill, I would not give anything on there the benefit of the doubt.
(DIR) Post #Aa5nEReCwpSRFg3sW0 by SirMalinowski@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:43:37Z
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@furgar I use Linux daily and prefer it to Windows but there are multiple objectively false and bizarre statements here. Like "all internet advances were made on Linux". Internet was first cranked up in 1969, first version of Linux came out in 1991, and it didn't really start picking up steam as a serious competitor to proprietary unix systems until late 90s/early 2000s.
(DIR) Post #Aa5nSF4gUTf8JO1azI by SirMalinowski@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:46:05Z
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@furgar The thing about DLL files is bizarre too. A DLL (dynamic link library) in Windows is basically the same thing as a SO (shared object) in Linux. There's nothing inherently proprietary or open source about either format. You can have proprietary SOs on a Linux system and open source DLLs on Windows.
(DIR) Post #Aa5ndE2mf9mSIhNC4W by SirMalinowski@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-24T12:48:04Z
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@furgar I've been coding for some 25 years so I have standing here 😁
(DIR) Post #Aa71yrZIV4RJTskjBI by NNYLiberty@liberdon.com
2023-09-25T03:03:35Z
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@furgar Correct till NT based Windows OS NASA used VxWorks save for the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity that runs a custom Linux distro
(DIR) Post #Aa720JN0cS5PzphBWS by HeyCitizen@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-25T03:03:51Z
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@furgar I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it.
(DIR) Post #Aa725Dkwv1rs27Eb2m by NNYLiberty@liberdon.com
2023-09-25T03:04:44Z
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@furgar Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA via @hackaday https://hackaday.com/2021/08/16/retrotechtacular-amiga-pips-the-pc-for-mission-critical-computing-at-nasa/
(DIR) Post #Aa7upL1HdmjDPEJWhk by HeyCitizen@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-25T03:04:48Z
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@furgar Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run.
(DIR) Post #Aa7upLZJbFwz6mEhkW by HeyCitizen@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-25T03:05:03Z
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@furgar The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.