Very cool tool to remove IE from XP, 2K

[aldente]

Office Suite => Open Office, Smart Suite

And you call that an alternative???
You probably call Fiat a "Porsche-alternative", right?

Media player => Real Audio

But please tell me, WHAT is the advantage of this buggy player full of ads?

MS Services for UNIX => gives me full UNIX System compatibilty, NFS..(MS gives this away just in case you didn't know..)

Yeah, Microsoft does so FOR FREE, so why the hell are you blaming Microsoft?


Most members of this forum crack high-class software, so they get in touch with it. They'll all have noticed, that that kind of software (and good software in general) is just available for Microsoft Windows OS. That's why nobody switched to Linucks and began to use crappy, buggy OpenSource-software (the only "advantage" of OpenSource-software is, it's "OpenSource" - so what?), which often is so limited, or is even completely unavailable for specific tasks.
I am NOT talking about those nasty One-Klick-Dummy-User-Software, but there is nothing like Photoshop (don't tell me about "gimp"), Scenarist, Cinema Craft Encoder, Audition, Acrobat, DVD Maestro, 3D Studio Max, etc.

There is no SINGLE reason to use Linux. It is not free: compare the prices!
SuSE Linux Professional: 90$
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 180$
These are just 2 examples of Linux-distributions which are more expensive than the Windows XP Operating System while offering much less features than the Microsoft product.

I must disagree, Linux is free, both as in free speech and free beer. It is the support and documentation you pay for when you buy RedHat and SuSE Linux. And i must say that Linux does support much more features than Microsoft Windows. Like since when did WindowsXP Pro get support for smp?

But thats just point of view. Nothing personally.

Cheers
ghalen

Big_or_what,

I agree with you. But I like to propose alternatives (the devil's advocate)..

Besides I really makes for good conversation.

I really don't use this method normally.

However, I wanted a alternative to use to run my system security and networking tools. I use these to secure and track or find hackers, ect. That way I am not vurnable myself before I even start the process.

One feature I really do like that you can remove un-necessary services and software and that's really my jest here.

Maybe this is beyond the scope of the forum, however I respect this forum and members and I wanted some input from programmers as well. I have proposed this idea on other forums and most of the members either don't understand or care..

But that not the case here..

I forgot to add that one could remove IE from xp SP1 and greater, to install IE so it will support MS Java VDM that M$ "fixed" after the court ruling..

[aldente]

But what is more important - a stable system, or the VM for one of the nastiest languages in the world?