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The Regestry is the problem with Windows
Even Microsoft is moving away from it back to config files and metabases.

Why would Linux want the legacy Registry, the source of most of the problems with Microsoft software?
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 02/13/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Expect A Linux Registry  RobertoSalazar | 02/13/04
I hope someone is paying you..  rcleetus@... | 02/13/04
Wow...  Martin Marvinski | 02/13/04
i wouldn't pay good money for that... (NT)  ryusen | 02/13/04
In which case, the Windows Registry will be declared obsolete  Robert Carnegie | 02/13/04
And thy name was moron.....  jonnormand | 02/13/04
Sure who to blame?  guido_z | 02/13/04
Wow...  Martin Marvinski | 02/13/04
The Regestry is the problem with Windows  voska | 02/13/04
Yeah, I think he's JOKING!!!  Martin Marvinski | 02/13/04
/etc directory replaced with the Linux Registry.  hal9000mx | 02/13/04
you are completely wrong  bent-german | 02/13/04
oops...  bent-german | 02/13/04
The Microsoft Registry system is based on the old DCE registry  B.O.F.H. | 02/14/04
what is code  JWatson77 | 02/13/04
Buggy Message  Don Bradley | 02/13/04
another way to look at it  prong@... | 02/13/04
IP protecting  richhayes | 02/13/04
I can agree to a point  prong@... | 02/13/04
The problem is:  hal9000mx | 02/13/04
protecting  richhayes | 02/13/04
This makes Microsoft look like the village idiot.  DonnieBoy | 02/13/04
Can't really blame Microsoft this time  Frank MacCrory | 02/13/04
Microsoft can be blamed EVERY time, my friend  Bobby Sskcat | 02/13/04
Linux is the cure...  vferrara | 02/13/04
Too bad...  Bobby Sskcat | 02/13/04
Speaking of brainless  vferrara | 02/13/04
Speaking of brainless  Drgnslider | 02/13/04
Perhaps you didn't read the entire thread  vferrara | 02/13/04
I read the entire thread. And yes, linux is perfect and will rule the world  Bobby Sskcat | 02/13/04
Utterly incapable  vferrara | 02/13/04
What you really need...  CaptainObvious | 02/13/04
do you really think you are helping?  ryusen | 02/13/04
blaming microsoft...  ryusen | 02/13/04
Someone does, but who?  Teknophobic | 02/13/04
That you again bitty?  zd-spam | 02/13/04
Who,  Teknophobic | 02/13/04
Too bad for you Donnie!  vdraken | 02/13/04
YOU are...  Bobby Sskcat | 02/13/04
No, it's a massive, double edged, trick.  jfrankcarr | 02/13/04
Linux user should be so lucky...  Mike Cox | 02/13/04
Good idea, warning them  IT_User | 02/13/04
You're correct  zd-spam | 02/13/04
Satire  TWRX | 02/14/04
Getting Better  SC-man | 02/17/04
Who's to say that? A Windows fanatic?  Linux_Developer | 02/18/04
So find out who released it...  Stewart Cannon | 02/13/04
Looks like mainsoft on a linux box  Teknophobic | 02/13/04
the uploaders as you cal lthem broke the law  JWatson77 | 02/16/04
OpenWindows set to release this fall  nucrash | 02/13/04
Not a chance...  John L. Ries | 02/13/04
Correction...  John L. Ries | 02/13/04
This is just dumb  zd-spam | 02/13/04
Bullcrap  Teknophobic | 02/13/04
True  John L. Ries | 02/13/04
No sane person is going to put MS-code into an open source app  hal9000mx | 02/13/04
no screen  bway al | 02/13/04
actually...  ryusen | 02/13/04
I doubt that  Suicida| | 02/13/04
Why would hackers .....  rock06r | 02/15/04
Smash the borg!!!  Bobby Sskcat | 02/13/04
Foolish  richhayes | 02/13/04
On the other hand...  John L. Ries | 02/13/04
Why would ANYONE do that?!?!  Bobby Sskcat | 02/13/04
SCO threatens to sue MS, end users  Chad_z | 02/13/04
It's brilliant! It's end game.  garyedwards@... | 02/13/04
It's brilliant! It's end game.  hal9000mx | 02/13/04
!!!  GraysonPeddie | 02/13/04
Yep, go Spend, Spend, Spend... Proves P.T.Barnum was Correct  Plain Logic | 02/14/04
Xp is..............  Rick_K | 02/14/04
A long time ago...  rock06r | 02/15/04
Who cares  nograin | 02/13/04
"how antivirus mechanisms in Windows operating systems work"  jasonp@... | 02/13/04
MS: Lets foreign governments and terrorists see code, but not US citizens.  Plain Logic | 02/13/04
I'd have more luck giving away plague rats  Xunil_Sierutuf | 02/13/04
This is a fine trick  michael-t | 02/13/04
Who would want that stupid code anyway?  Grimm Reaper | 02/13/04
You Linux weenies  rkadowns | 02/13/04
Nice line hiding...  Grimm Reaper | 02/17/04
This is just to funny  nite_w0lf | 02/13/04
Yeah, more publisity ...of its own stupidity  fgh1234 | 02/13/04
Just a shadow of whats to come ...  George Mitchell | 02/13/04
Windows code up for grabs  Loverock Davidson | 02/13/04
Only in your dreams.....  Rick_K | 02/14/04
Only in your dreams.....  Loverock Davidson | 02/14/04
A more likely possibility  TWRX | 02/14/04
Would you like RED SAUCE or WHITE with that SPAGHETTI?!? LOL...  dicktaurus@... | 02/13/04
Microsoft Grandstanding ladies and gentlemen  nograin | 02/14/04
Windows works, Linux has kernel panics and NO software  Jose.Pinchero | 02/15/04
sounds like a person that  JWatson77 | 02/16/04
Re: Windows works, Linux has kernel panics and NO software  Linux_Developer | 02/18/04
Windows works, Linux has kernel panics and NO software  Jose.Pinchero | 02/15/04
"First Fallout from Code Leak Appears" - eWEEK  dicktaurus@... | 02/16/04
Quit messing with the schedule...  John Le'Brecage | 02/16/04
A thousand pardons, Sahib! What was I thinking?!?... LOL. And yep,....  dicktaurus@... | 02/16/04
"First Fallout from Code Leak Appears" - eWEEK  dicktaurus@... | 02/16/04
"First Fallout from Code Leak Appears" - eWEEK  dicktaurus@... | 02/16/04
What's with the "HEADS UP" three-peat?!? I posted ONCE.(NT)  dicktaurus@... | 02/16/04
the only truly safe pc  Llandros Loressin | 02/17/04

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