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Linux is just a kernel. There are distros like Ubuntu that make it meant for desktop computers. I don't know where you guys are getting this from, and why the diehard windows fans and diehard linux fans don't understand why either is better, because for linux you get the distro you like and windows.. not really a choice but win7 is fine
[QUOTE=adam1172;31960144]I've used Linux, overall it was great but I'm just too used to Windows.
My mom said surfing the web on the Linux computer is way faster. Not sure if I can prove that.[/QUOTE]well if you can avoid anything flash related then yeah it's a lot faster on Linux.
I run this laptop on Linux because Win7 got corrupted and crashes whenever I boot up.
Thank you and happy birthday Linux!
[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;31960247]well if you can avoid anything flash related then yeah it's a lot faster on Linux.[/QUOTE]
The latest versions of flash (stable and beta) run just fine.
I quite like Linux. I mainly use Windows but fucking around with Linux in your spare time never gets old.
Happy Birthday Linux, you confusing penguiny bastard.
I always keep a Linux Distro disc close by, just in case Windows fucks up.
Happy birthday Linux.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;31960247]well if you can avoid anything flash related then yeah it's a lot faster on Linux.[/QUOTE]Watching a youtube video, if you moved the slider; it'd slow down so much. I think they fixed it though.
[QUOTE=Sanius;31960645]The latest versions of flash (stable and beta) run just fine.[/QUOTE]
64 bit
Happy birthday linux
I will never understand how to do anything on you or any of your distros
Slap me sideways but is it
sudo apt-install package
right?
[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;31960758]64 bit[/QUOTE]
There is a 64-bit beta which runs just fine.
[QUOTE=The freeman;31960795]Happy birthday linux
I will never understand how to do anything on you or any of your distros
Slap me sideways but is it
sudo apt-install package
right?[/QUOTE]apt-get install
sudo apt-install would make you enter a password so it could bitch at you about that not being a command. and besides, that's just a Debian/Ubuntu thing. get into RPM based or anything with a decent package manager and it's a different command
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;31960896]Nope, Facepunch runs on Windows Server.[/QUOTE]it does now, but it's run everything from apache to nginx
ITT : Bunch of 12 year olds who have no idea what Linux is or is intended for. Linux is brilliant for headless servers, and has a much smaller overhead which is ideal for things like web servers.
When I want to set up a web server on a fresh install on Windows, I have to go through a ton of steps installing each component separately (Apache, PHP, MySQL + Mail server). This takes around an hour assuming that there are no errors (which there almost definitely will be).
On CentOS, I type [code] yum install apache2 php5 mysql-server exim; ./etc/init.d/apache2 start; ./etc/unit.d/mysql-server start[/code]
This takes about 3 minutes.
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[casey@jonescb-linux ~]$ sudo nmap -O facepunch.com
Starting Nmap 5.50 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-08-26 18:37 CDT
Nmap scan report for facepunch.com (173.245.60.113)
Host is up (0.0058s latency).
Other addresses for facepunch.com (not scanned): 173.245.60.40
rDNS record for 173.245.60.113: cf-173-245-60-113.cloudflare.com
Not shown: 998 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
443/tcp closed https
Device type: general purpose|WAP|webcam|phone
Running (JUST GUESSING): Linux 2.6.X|2.4.X (95%), Gemtek embedded (90%), Siemens embedded (90%), Netgear embedded (90%), Linksys embedded (87%), AXIS Linux 2.6.X (87%), Aastra embedded (87%)
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.17 - 2.6.35 (95%), Linux 2.6.24 - 2.6.35 (91%), Linux 2.6.13 - 2.6.31 (91%), Linux 2.6.37 (90%), Gemtek P360 WAP or Siemens Gigaset SE515dsl wireless broadband router (90%), Linux 2.4.20 (Red Hat 7.2) (90%), Netgear DG834G WAP (90%), Linux 2.6.19 - 2.6.36 (90%), Linux 2.6.30 (90%), Linux 2.6.32 (90%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
OS detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 9.04 seconds
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Granted it could just be a frontend proxy server/load balancer.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31961053][code]
[casey@jonescb-linux ~]$ sudo nmap -O facepunch.com
Starting Nmap 5.50 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-08-26 18:37 CDT
Nmap scan report for facepunch.com (173.245.60.113)
Host is up (0.0058s latency).
Other addresses for facepunch.com (not scanned): 173.245.60.40
rDNS record for 173.245.60.113: cf-173-245-60-113.cloudflare.com
Not shown: 998 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
443/tcp closed https
Device type: general purpose|WAP|webcam|phone
Running (JUST GUESSING): Linux 2.6.X|2.4.X (95%), Gemtek embedded (90%), Siemens embedded (90%), Netgear embedded (90%), Linksys embedded (87%), AXIS Linux 2.6.X (87%), Aastra embedded (87%)
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.17 - 2.6.35 (95%), Linux 2.6.24 - 2.6.35 (91%), Linux 2.6.13 - 2.6.31 (91%), Linux 2.6.37 (90%), Gemtek P360 WAP or Siemens Gigaset SE515dsl wireless broadband router (90%), Linux 2.4.20 (Red Hat 7.2) (90%), Netgear DG834G WAP (90%), Linux 2.6.19 - 2.6.36 (90%), Linux 2.6.30 (90%), Linux 2.6.32 (90%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
OS detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 9.04 seconds
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Granted it could just be a frontend proxy server/load balancer.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/asdknlfa[/url]
default IIS 404 page
[code]
[casey@jonescb-linux ~]$ curl -I facepunch.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: cloudflare-nginx
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:46:13 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Set-Cookie: bb_lastvisit=1314402318; expires=Sat, 25-Aug-2012 23:45:18 GMT; path=/; domain=.facepunch.com
Set-Cookie: bb_lastactivity=0; expires=Sat, 25-Aug-2012 23:45:18 GMT; path=/; domain=.facepunch.com
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d3c6800f9e3c24794ca7eb61172d38cf21314402372; expires=Mon, 23-Dec-2019 23:50:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.facepunch.com
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Running Nginx.
[editline]26th August 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=ButtsexV17;31961145][url]http://www.facepunch.com/asdknlfa[/url]
default IIS 404 page[/QUOTE]
Yeah, nginx is probably acting as a proxy, but either way you're going through Linux to access Facepunch.com
[editline]26th August 2011[/editline]
Steampowered.com runs Apache on Linux. :v:
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[casey@jonescb-linux ~]$ sudo nmap -O steampowered.com
Starting Nmap 5.50 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-08-26 18:50 CDT
Nmap scan report for steampowered.com (63.228.223.100)
Host is up (0.069s latency).
Not shown: 980 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
**Crapload of open ports**
Device type: general purpose|WAP
Running (JUST GUESSING): Linux 2.6.X (87%), Netgear embedded (86%)
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 2.6.17 - 2.6.35 (87%), Linux 2.6.19 - 2.6.35 (87%), Linux 2.6.24 - 2.6.35 (87%), Linux 2.6.31 (87%), Linux 2.6.32 (87%), Netgear DG834G WAP (86%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
OS detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8.36 seconds
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[code]
[casey@jonescb-linux ~]$ curl -I steampowered.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache
Location: http://store.steampowered.com/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:13:05 GMT
X-Varnish: 595968330
Age: 0
Via: 1.1 varnish
Connection: keep-alive
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I see what it is, cloudflare is running nginx on Linux. Facepunch though is running IIS on Windows
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;31947301]I really wish linux got more popular so people would make games for it and then I wouldn't mind switching to it.[/QUOTE]
I think once that happens they would end up selling Linux.
Yay!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/MCXSf.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;31961448]I think once that happens they would end up selling Linux.[/QUOTE]
they who
[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;31961448]I think once that happens they would end up selling Linux.[/QUOTE]
Torvalds only wrote like 2% of the kernal...
Plus iirc, its illegal for someone to sell it based on its license soo unless you are in china
[QUOTE=Map in a box;31962195]Plus iirc, its illegal for someone to sell it based on its license soo unless you are in china[/QUOTE]
Red Hat?
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;31946408]snip, fuck it[/QUOTE]
Your snipes are not fast enough.
[editline]27th August 2011[/editline]
Scrub.
[QUOTE=Sanius;31962225]Red Hat?[/QUOTE]
Linux in general
[QUOTE=Map in a box;31962195]Plus iirc, its illegal for someone to sell it based on its license soo unless you are in china[/QUOTE]
That's completely wrong. They can charge all they want as long as the source code is freely available. The result is that their main offer is technical support.
(As mentioned, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an example of a Linux based OS doing exactly this)
[QUOTE=Map in a box;31962195]Plus iirc, its illegal for someone to sell it based on its license soo unless you are in china[/QUOTE]
It's only illegal if you don't make the source code freely available.
Red Hat sells their distro, but all the source code is available for free, which is where CentOS and Scientific Linux come from.
[editline]26th August 2011[/editline]
Ninja'd
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;31962670]You can sell it all you want as long as you make the modifications open source. Red Hat releases this by making Fedora, SUSE by OpenSUSE.[/QUOTE]
Fedora doesn't count as releasing the source for RHEL.
All the source for the programs in RHEL is available here: [url]ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/[/url]
I run linux on my server with apache and ftp but i would never use any type of linux os for everyday use.
I love Linux. I just can't get it to install on my laptop and don't have room for it on my desktop. (Then again Arch has a new install package out so I think I can do it now...)
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