Rapport from installation of Ubuntu 7.10 on amd64
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From: Robert Redelmeier on 1 Feb 2008 23:42 Evenbit <nbaker2328(a)charter.net> wrote in part: > I briefly tested Vista once and the only bad thing I could say about > it was the feeling that I was being "handled" by the OS. It felt > like "Clippy" was back to help me even when I wasn't asking for it. Respectfully, just what do you think MS-Windows _is_? MS=Win started as a Apple Mac clone to make computers more attractive and accessible to untrained people. Anything to get away from the forbidding MS-DOS prompt. At this, it succeeded marvellously and built up PC volumes so that prices could drop. Something Linux advocates such as myself need to keep in mind. However, MS-Windows succeeded only by being an inflexible fixed menuing system. It makes simple usage easy at the cost of added complexity for more advanced usage. Worse, it does not provide a clear learning path for programmers and more advanced users. Eventually, you have to leave MS-Visual Basic behind. X-Windows-System and IBM OS/2 might well host GUI apps to less sophisticated users. But admin & programming tasks were left on the CLI. MS-Windows did not, perhaps because their systems always had heavy maintenence burdens. So it stranded a number of advanced users who resist going back to square one (CLI). -- Robert
From: Betov on 2 Feb 2008 03:18 Herbert Kleebauer <klee(a)unibwm.de> �crivait news:47A375A0.D6CEAFE3 @unibwm.de: > I never wrote an application, neither in C nor assembly. Arghhhh!!!... Ghhhhh!!!... Hhhhh!!!... Betov. < http://rosasm.org >
From: Betov on 2 Feb 2008 03:32 //\\\\o//\\\\annabee <"Ubuntu for ever"> �crivait news:op.t5s047e2nghux9 @pipp: > I finally got a successful DVD with Ubunty 7.10 (Gutzy) ??? Why not earlier ??? :)) Well, i am not yet fully sure that Linux will kick MicroSoft out. I have decided to wait one year to make sure of not working, one another time, for absolutely nothing (nothing anyway, because nobody will ever admit any fact, but, at least, i would like it to exist for our unsignificant minority...). If Ubuntu is on the road of success, I estimate it should be around 5% of the market-share around the end of this year. Last news from France: A main socialist leader (Le Maire de Paris), just signed up an agreement with MicroSoft, while the french police is switching entirely to Ubuntu - 70,000 units -)... :]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Betov. < http://rosasm.org >
From: Esra Sdrawkcab on 2 Feb 2008 03:43 Greg wrote: > i also got a free copy of Ubuntu 7 , i have not installed it though, i > am still looking for a good virtual software so that i can have > windows and linux on one machine sooner > Well there's at least 4 such free ones. Bochs, QEMU, VMware player, MS VPC. Give 'em a try. Ob argument: I quite like the Microsoft Virtual PC.
From: //o//annabee on 2 Feb 2008 04:58
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:32:38 +0100, Betov <betov(a)free.fr> wrote: > //\\\\o//\\\\annabee <"Ubuntu for ever"> écrivait news:op.t5s047e2nghux9 > @pipp: > >> I finally got a successful DVD with Ubunty 7.10 (Gutzy) > > ??? Why not earlier ??? > > :)) Because I was not really optimistic about the result so I did not try harder. I just now tried installing it on my other box, and that did not work at all. It works without a hick on the amd64, 4 days I belive, and not as much as one problem. (yes one, the flashplayer refused to find Opera, but works with firefox). (good to see you back btw). > Well, i am not yet fully sure that Linux will kick MicroSoft > out. I have decided to wait one year to make sure of not > working, one another time, for absolutely nothing (nothing > anyway, because nobody will ever admit any fact, but, at least, > i would like it to exist for our unsignificant minority...). > If Ubuntu is on the road of success, I estimate it should be > around 5% of the market-share around the end of this year. I hear more and more about it. How do you measure marked share for a free OS? ( Browsing from Ubuntu, is for some reason faster from my point. I allways had many hangtimes (waittimes) with the windows browser when I loaded a page, but now it rushes through like a warm knife in butter ). > Last news from France: A main socialist leader (Le Maire de > Paris), just signed up an agreement with MicroSoft, while > the french police is switching entirely to Ubuntu - 70,000 > units -)... :]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] It feels like the Truman show. > Betov. > > < http://rosasm.org > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |