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[nobiggieBIG]

bWhat would be the best way to do this? ive used dropbox before but the website hosting on that died

[thenastyjbenny]

How did you create it? Dreamweaver? Muse?

[Aaronius_Leonius]

Get amazon AWS or Azure or something like that and run linux on it. You will be more proud of it if you set it up yourself.

[nobiggieBIG]

17 minutes ago, JR8 said:

How did you create it? Dreamweaver? Muse?

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[Dat Guy]

14 minutes ago, AA-RonRosen said:

run linux on it.

Please don't.

[Aaronius_Leonius]

1 hour ago, Dat Guy said:

Please don't.

Why don't you like linux? The windows filesystem is extremely messed up and the commands make no sense. Unix based OSes are very customizable and give you complete access to your own machine and you can do whatever you want. I seriously can't see why you wouldn't like it. I am not trying to start a fight. If you don't like linux, that's fine. I'm just wondering why.

[Dat Guy]

1 minute ago, AA-RonRosen said:

Unix based OSes are very customizable and give you complete access to your own machine 

Yup. That's why I use Unix-based OSs on my servers. Linux, however, is modeled after Minix, not based on Unix. There is not a single line of code Linux shares with a real Unix. You might see that when you see GNU userland utilities: GNU = GNU's Not Unix.

 

It is not Unix.

 

It does not even try to be Unix.

 

It is not based on Unix.

 

I prefer Unix.  

[Aaronius_Leonius]

Just now, Dat Guy said:

Yup. That's why I use Unix-based OSs on my servers. Linux, however, is modeled after Minix, not based on Unix. There is not a single line of code Linux shares with a real Unix. You might see that when you see GNU userland utilities: GNU = GNU's Not Unix.

 

It is not Unix.

 

It does not even try to be Unix.

 

It is not based on Unix.

 

I prefer Unix.  

It's Unix like though and my definition of a unix based os is the unix file structure, unix commands, and customization options so I consider unix like oses as unix based because they are close enough for me. 

 

Also, GNU doesn't know anything about good software. Just look at this https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

No good distros are on there. 

[Dat Guy]

Linux does not have "the Unix commands". Name one which is fully POSIX-compliant. (Hint: there is none.) Some of them don't even have vi anymore. 

[Aaronius_Leonius]

2 minutes ago, Dat Guy said:

Linux does not have "the Unix commands". Name one which is fully POSIX-compliant. (Hint: there is none.) Some of them don't even have vi anymore. 

I don't know much about where parts of unix came from. But Unix and Linux have a lot on the same commands (ls, chroot, sudo, etc) so I still consider it unix based but it's still Unix Like. Also, why the heck would you take out vi? It doesn't hurt to have it and this is coming from someone who uses nano because I don't want to take the time to figure out all the hotkeys for vi but I probably should.

[Dat Guy]

See, that's the problem: you don't know. The POSIX standard defines a common interface for portable operating systems, containing commands like vi and sed, including their parameters. Ironically, it was co-founded by RMS whose GNU environment violates POSIX as of today. A couple of years ago, large Linux distributors invented the Linux Standard Base as their own semi-proprietary POSIX alternative so they could diverge from the standard without violating it. 

 

Gentoo replaced vi by nano because they considered vi to be not accessible enough for their users. I facepalmed hard. 

[Aaronius_Leonius]

2 hours ago, Dat Guy said:

See, that's the problem: you don't know. The POSIX standard defines a common interface for portable operating systems, containing commands like vi and sed, including their parameters. Ironically, it was co-founded by RMS whose GNU environment violates POSIX as of today. A couple of years ago, large Linux distributors invented the Linux Standard Base as their own semi-proprietary POSIX alternative so they could diverge from the standard without violating it. 

 

Gentoo replaced vi by nano because they considered vi to be not accessible enough for their users. I facepalmed hard. 

Not accessible enough? That makes no sense. It's just as accessible as nano, just slightly more difficult to use. I'm actually going to take the time to learn vi just because I think it can be just as accessible as nano