It kind of makes you wonder just how many people really do use Linux out there, I mean, they're still comming out with programs for it. I guess it happens so rarely that that's why is gets to be on the news list...

I don't know... Linux us good, but not widely used

Heh.. not widely used?
no, only 1/3 of all webserververs in the world run linux. :)

As desktop OS it isn't as used though, but I wouldn't be suprised if it is up to 10% there too.
Many can't make up their mind and runs both a Microsoft OS and Linux on the same computer.

Personally I run linux as server and W2K as desktop.
Good thing with linux is that even a cheap computer like and old p2-300 with say.. 128M ram (you get that dirt cheap today) make an exellent server with Linux for home or small business use.

I have seen a triple-boot system. It ran Win2000 for stable windows stuff, WinME for compatability, and some version of Linux for networking. Of course a Mac can be a quintuple-boot system (OS9, OSX, WinME, Win2000, and Linux) without having 2 versions of any OS on it. OS9 is pure MacOS, so it is not too similar to the Unix-based OSX, and Win2000 emulates DOS, so it is not much like Win98.

I'm running WinXP Pro for most progs, Win98SE for the rare program that needs the compatability and Mandrake Linux 8.1 for fun.

It's working swell and I can say that it's fun having a triple-boot comp.

35% of desktop computers are running linux. With wine you can run several great titles in games. Lots of games are nativly run. As in they support linux. Linux is used by the FBI because of how secure and usable it is. I have had windows crash with a BSOD and linux has never frozen up or stoped responding. If a program stops responding just use the KILLALL command. my linux system has been up for 6 years and 35 days. I use a 6 day emergancy power supply. I built it myself. but you can buy a hour supply at curcit city. Linux is the most stabel os i now of. Except for the one i made myself.

I'd like to mention that the US FBI uses Linux on their web servers. It's probably because Linux is extremely cheap. I found this out at some web site that shows what OS and server (e.g., Apache) different domains are using. It also shows the uptimes of different machines. I think the server with the longest uptime is in Japan (go figure) with an uptime of about 1338 days. I found this at www.netcraft.com.

Linux is free (as a download), but you should buy it from a company like Red Hat so you can get support for it (only about $75). I saw somewhere on slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) that someone started tallying the price of equivalent Windows software that came with his Linux pack and stopped after about $5000 (not counting software he didn't use). In short, Linux rocks. Go to the link if you want more information (and spend your $5000 on something else).

get a Votage 200!

vo|T|age! Man, you guys are slacking!

maybe we just don't feel like correcting your apparent typo. you know if I were working on getting a phd or something I could write an entire thesis paper on "the pointless activity in the forums at ticalc.org"

Are you working on getting a PhD? If so, then it is reccomended by a certain user of ticalc.org that you include the name Chickendude in the thesis on pointless activities on ticalc.org (because a forum for miscellaneous topics is nowhere to be found...)

aargh gator password thing isn't working!!! I shall have to change my preferences!!!

now, back on topic (;)) which user would that be?
I found a forum for miscellanous forums that are full of miscellany. and it's right here.

Well, do you like it?

Uhh... Yeah! ( I wish I had uno calculatores)

Yeah, but comparitively speaking...

Linux may be used often for networking, but the average calc user probably doesn't use it as a mian operating system.

I can just imagine those boys down at the FBI downling Linux programs so they can play games on their calc instead of making the world safe from democracy.

Linux is mostly used by programmers. TIGCC is a tool for programmers. I imagine there are quite a few calculator developers that use Linux. Thus, I conclude this release to be useful and relevant.

Your initial post was a bit funny, since you said "...still coming out with programs for it." That almost makes it sound like Linux is some obsolete operating system (like, say, MS-DOS), and you find it amazing that people still write programs for it.

While Linux has been around for quite awhile (and used on servers), "Linux on the Desktop" is relatively new. It is not something that started and failed. Rather, it is just becoming slowly more popular by the day. So yes, programs are "still coming out", as you put it.

For the record, I use Linux/KDE on all of my computers (2 at home, 1 at work, one laptop). It may not be ready for the masses, but it is certainly ready for me.

I know I have said this before in other posts, but: you may want to search the ticalc.org community section and see who uses Linux. You might surprise yourself!

Hope that clarifies things.

>> I know I have said this before in other posts, but: you may want to search the ticalc.org community section and see who uses Linux. You might surprise yourself!

There are 552 users whose main platform is linux

"safe from democracy"? Wow, small typo, huge change in meaning.

I use it as a Desktop OS. I use Windows from time to time - mostly for downloading stuff from the KaZaA network..and some games that I can't get to emulate.

why has the post length been limited?

Some people were posting several chapters of long books, like War and Peace. Would _you_ like to wait a long time to download this page just to see that stuff on here?

Sure, why not? It says "Don't post comments designed to disrupt page display, such as excessively long comments or gibberish." Maybe they weren't *designed* to disrupt page display, but to entertain us?

Seeing how off-topic everything is anyway, how is this any worse?

ok obviously you are trying really hard to defend depleat and ding's posts because you do not really thing that posting war and peace and half of the news article maybe thousands of times is not designed to disrupt page display, nor would that be entertaining except to people like ding and depleat. a quick search of the internet would turn up war and peace, which is obviously what ding did.

BTW I noticed someone not only took off the really long comments but also the ones referring to them; nice job guys.

also thanx to the commenters informing me on what linux was although I'm still unsure on one thing:
What can linux be run on (as in pc, mac, apple 2E, ti-92+...)

Hmm, I didn't see the news article thing... must've already been deleted.

Linux can run on 386's, Alpha, Sparc, M68k, and PPC (Mac), and has recently been ported to the Itanium and IBM mainframes. It probably wouldn't do very well on a TI-92+ as I would like, because it has very little memory and doesn't have an MMU (used for virtual and protected memory).

Check out www.linux.org for more.

Linux is an operating system. It can run on (almost) any computer with enough hard drive space to hold it.

Therefore it hasn't been "ported" to anything. You just install it on a Linux-formatted partition of ANY computer. Right now, I have Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 7.2 on my computer at the same time. I pick my OS when I boot my computer (XP is default).

And I missed it all *sigh* :-(

I like the legal controversies they could get into with this statement: "The comments below are written by ticalc.org visitors. Their views are not necessarily those of ticalc.org, and ticalc.org takes no responsibility for their content."

As long as ticalc.org removes comments and/or limits how comments can be posted, they are responsible for all of the comments that remain. Slashdot (link) gets around this with karma--they don't actually remove comments, they just let users choose the quality of comments that they want to read.

Also, since I don't see the news item for some reason, happy pi day!

I think I'll go along with the PI=4 guys.

(therefore there is no Pi day)

Nope, It's april's fools day (4/1) and 4/1=4, so HA!

You know, some people just ask for trouble. ;=) AOOUoUoUOuUOUuouuuouOUOUOUO

shut up depleat

yes

Why did depleat's account get changed, and what's all this talk about War and Peace? I think I missed something important. :(

I think he may have been banned, but he has a new name so he can post more junk. About the War and Peace, he and some others posted entire chapters from long books, such as War and Peace. You didn't miss anything important. They only caused this page to load very slowly.

LOL actually sounds funny, but annoying. I post junk, but I also post relative junk, like this, see? It's relative to something, but I don't know what. Hm... I wonder what a linux system looks like.

So, who all got kicked off?

I don't think anyone did, they're just RUMORS!!! Mwahahahaa.
Ok. Welcome back No_one_2000_.

Where did you get the division from? We're not dividing, we're doing decimals. There is no 4-0-2002, so BAH.

it don't matter how you get four! if you multiply .14 by 3, then you get 42, which can be 4.2e1, which can be april 2nd, 2001; the day after 4/1!
okee, i be finished.
all your pi are belong to me.

Nah ... Chickendude, you should be ashamed that you don't know your multiplication tables. .14 times 3 is .42, which is 4.2e-1.

that's what I meant.
April 2nd, 2001 BC

I almost forgot ... it's pi day today!!!

Pi is 3.14159265358979... OR 4 for ding, depleateduranium and lord_nightrose.

or for no_one_2000, it's

3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035

For me, pi is 3.43

or for me, pi=pi

pi=
4=pi=4=pi=4=pi=4=pi=4=pi=pi=
pi=3.141=not the last one=
4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, so "pi day" is similar to "mole day," huh? It's 3/14 instead of 10/23. Interesting.

I don't think that I've ever heard of mole day (pi day -yes. mole day - no). Also, does anyone know what's wrong with the education.ti.com store/site/thing?

Mole day is a thing that has to do with chemistry. It celebrates Avogadro's number, 6.022 x 10^23 (a mole is a quantity of something that equals Avogadro's number, like how a dozen eggs is 12 eggs, a mole of eggs would be 6.022 x 10^23)

Oh, thanks.

maybe you overlooked this, but there is a good reason how ticalc can post a disclaimer and censor the occasional message at the same time: Time.
ticalc wants this to be a real time forum so they do not screen every message as it is submitted, as some on-line forums do. so, if some new person comes to the site and sees a bunch of garbage that was recently posted, ticalc can dispute it is not their fault. But, they do not want to lose all of their members and viewers so they censor any messages that should not in any circumstance be there. As the reply page says, "Other users want to read replies relevant to a particular article, and general discussion should be kept to other areas, such as our Mailing Lists. Using our site is a privilege, and we reserve the right to make judgments about what is appropriate for our visitors. "

I believe that legally, once they start censoring messages of any kind, they become responsible for all of them. If they are asked to remove a message by someone, they will--therefore the user who posted the comment does not own it--ticalc.org does. Another site I frequent was able to dodge a bullet by not removing user comments--slashdot.org (see link).

What you are referring to is US law. ticalc.org is not goverened by US law. Swedish law is quite a bit different on issues like this.

Interesting, because when I do a WHOIS on ticalc.org, it shows that it's hosted in CALIFORNIA.

The domain is registered through a person there, yes. But that's not where the server is operated from. A correct lookup would be "whois 195.67.128.26@whois.ripe.net", which will show you:

inetnum: 195.67.128.0 - 195.67.143.255
netname: SOLNET
descr: Sollentuna County
country: SE

http://www.gandi.net/