It's more of an OS than Windows is. Operating system seperate the hardware from the user or, at least that is their primary goal. "People don't use an operating system, they use applications.&quo ...

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MaximumFAIL  Gnome, KDE and XFCE aren't Linux Desktop Environments at all. They are WINDOW MANAGERS and can be installed on ANY OS! There, I am the BIGGEST geek! No Jobs v. Gates q's, no UN ...

I've been using this for years and so have other KDE 4 users. Use Pc-BSD and again, you don't pay, yet you get the features that everyone brags about in Windows 7/Vista. ...

lol, bragging rights with an x6 for n00bs maybe. I love pimping my "old" dual core FPS's against online whores with Intel C2Qs and still having higher FPS than them ;). ...

It's per-se. ...

What happens when you connect Vcc to another Vcc and both have different levels of current/voltage? That's right Short circuit and explosion of components. As an electrical engineer, I suggest you bee ...

Awwww, Candian loving, that touches a special part in my heart. You guys shouldn't have! ...

There are quite a few mistakes for the OpenStep -> OSX transition. Apple implemented A LOT of NexTSTEP/OpenStep into OSX.  Primarily the following:TCP/IP (don't know why Maximum PC didn't men ...

..or not. I'm a poor student and I'm stuying computer science and I have a Macbook, and love OSX. OSX is the *BSD that does the hours of tweaking and configuring all in one sinch. It is extremely powe ...

Personally I don't like my entire laptop's chassis flexes when I type. I also don't like a heavy, thick and NON-portable laptop that runs hot and has the loudest fans in the world. I am ofcourse talki ...

Your logic is flawed. I referred to the subset of North Americans when I said, "...lazy North Americans". I am referring to some people's innate ability to accept everything at face value an ...

I'm a programmer and my OS drives my development. If I am lazy and let the OS/compiler let me know when to allocate resources - UNIX and linux work beautifully, but Windows...well  1. They have ...

I have PC-BSD running on a Toshiba Libretto with a Pentium 133 and 32 MB RAM, installs in 6 horurs and boots in five minutes. PC-BSD is free too, who would've thunk that free is better than paying for ...

Linux is monolithic, but the core components are modular (still monolithic though), Windows is monolithic (I guess??), FreeBSD is monolithic and OS X is a hybrid (BSD runs userland stuff and communica ...

There is a time to destroy backwards compatibility and it is done via transitioning. Write API to allow old programs to work at the majority of their performance and features and forget about the intr ...

Bingo, the only code audits that MS will ever do is for people that give them more money (as if they need more) or people that have better lawyers than they do. Unfortunately, that is the type of soft ...

Defragmenting is a process developed for FILE SYSTEMS. Due to the latency of magnetic hard drives, the probability of fragmentation increases. The main reason why you wouldn't is correct, the life spa ...

I would change the HSFs. CPU: OCZ Vendetta 2 (the best price to performance of ANY air cooler), Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 8800 (the best air cooling HSF for noise/performance, period). All fans t ...

Hard drives are not "backup" devices. They are just copies of blank, on another hard drive. A suitable backup device may be flash storage (terribly expensive) or tape drives. ...

Firstly, there is a difference between their and there, you should learn it. Overall, proper grammar use will do more for your career than learning about an OS from someone (read: Gordon) who is appar ...

"extended coverage of AMD won't change benchmarks what part of MAXIMUM don't brandname fanboys understand?" Bingo, I will buy AMD because I'm a poor student, but I read MaximumPC beca ...

I vote for PC-BSD! Oh wait, MaximumPC only knows what mainstream media mention, fail. ...

Hemi in a 2010 Camaro? That is the dumbest idea I have ever heard, and trust me I've heard some dumb ideas. The hemi isn't a real hemi, it just has a hemi embossment on top of the cheap-crap plastic c ...

I just finished a Java assignment for school. Divide by zero was handled: if ((this.rightWOperand == 0) || (this.rightROperand == 0))             this.errorState = true; You're welcom ...