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If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - ralgith - 12-10-2011

I got quite this kick out of this Wink

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=linux Wrote:UNIX Airways

Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.

Air DOS

Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they push again, jump on again, and so on...

Mac Airlines

All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up.

Windows Air

The terminal is pretty and colourful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.

Windows NT Air

Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.

Windows XP Air

You turn up at the airport,which is under contract to only allow XP Air planes. All the aircraft are identical, brightly coloured and three times as big as they need to be. The signs are huge and all point the same way. Whichever way you go, someone pops up dressed in a cloak and pointed hat insisting you follow him. Your luggage and clothes are taken off you and replaced with an XP Air suit and suitcase identical to everyone around you as this is included in the exorbitant ticket cost. The aircraft will not take off until you have signed a contract. The inflight entertainment promised turns out to be the same Mickey Mouse cartoon repeated over and over again. You have to phone your travel agent before you can have a meal or drink. You are searched regularly throughout the flight. If you go to the toilet twice or more you get charged for a new ticket. No matter what destination you booked you will always end up crash landing at Whistler in Canada.

Linux Air

Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself.

When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"

Its just too true as well. But everyone that I've successfully swayed into spending 2 weeks test driving Linux has switched to it permanently for everything except gaming. Which is true for me as well.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - Biker Dude - 12-10-2011

I'm a total noob in these things, so why not for gaming? It's important as I play WoW.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - Vizth Hal - 12-10-2011

(12-10-2011, 04:46 AM)Biker Dude Wrote: I'm a total noob in these things, so why not for gaming? It's important as I play WoW.

Linux cant run windows programs for the most part.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - ralgith - 12-11-2011

(12-10-2011, 06:18 AM)Vizth Hal Wrote:
(12-10-2011, 04:46 AM)Biker Dude Wrote: I'm a total noob in these things, so why not for gaming? It's important as I play WoW.

Linux cant run windows programs for the most part.

You left off an important piece here:
However, most software has Linux alternatives. Its just the games & Quickbooks that I've been unable to replace on Linux. And even many games I play directly on Linux because of CrossOver.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - John L - 12-11-2011

What flavour are using right now?


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - ralgith - 12-12-2011

(12-11-2011, 08:20 PM)John L Wrote: What flavour are using right now?

Fedora 16 for Desktops & Laptops, and CentOS 6 for the server that we had the site on for a couple of weeks.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - John L - 12-12-2011

I keep promising myself that I am going to make the official switch, but remain lazy. Shame on me.

what do you like about the Red Hat folks over the rest of the field?


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - ralgith - 12-15-2011

(12-12-2011, 05:41 PM)John L Wrote: I keep promising myself that I am going to make the official switch, but remain lazy. Shame on me.

what do you like about the Red Hat folks over the rest of the field?

Stability combined with ease of use. I can give it to someone who knows nothing about Linux and they can use it comfortably. Don't get me wrong, I like other flavors as well:
Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, Mint, Slackware (First linux I ever experienced was a shell account on a Slack server), Knoppix, OpenSUSE, Damn Small Linux, and Mandriva. A few years ago I would have taken Mandriva over any of them, however... almost exactly two years ago they lost their top 5 or 6 developers. Since then they've tanked a lot. Its still good, but if I go back I'll go to Mageia, a Mandriva fork.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - John L - 12-15-2011

I'm definitely going to give one a go. Since Opera(I am an Opera person) also is set up for Linux, I shouldn't have any real trouble making the switch.


RE: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... - ralgith - 12-16-2011

(12-15-2011, 09:55 PM)John L Wrote: I'm definitely going to give one a go. Since Opera(I am an Opera person) also is set up for Linux, I shouldn't have any real trouble making the switch.

Several of the distros I listed have whats called a "LiveCD". You run the OS from the CD without installing or changing any files on your computer. It lets you take a test drive of the software without damaging an existing & working system. The ones that I know for sure have a LiveCD version are:
Fedora, Mandriva, Mageia, CentOS, and DSL (Damn Small Linux).
Others may have it as well, I think the CD for Mint is a LiveCD, but it doesn't specifically say that it is.

For a huge bunch of Linux links go to: http://www.dylanspcs.com/linux.html
Its an export from my bookmarks, so it may look a little funky in the formatting Wink