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From: Whiskers on 25 Nov 2008 13:46 On 2008-11-25, Ian Rawlings <news06(a)tarcus.org.uk> wrote: > On 2008-11-25, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> There always has to be one awkward so-and-so! ;) > > I find it to be the most flexible but it is a PITA at times. > >> Of course you can make Linux as complicated and long-winded to install >> as you like, but for many of the 'friendlier' distros I still find it >> impressive that in about 30mins you can get a fully working system up >> and running, including all the apps. I was pretty impressed when Mandriva 2007 installed on a Toshiba Libretto with only a minor intervention to configure the graphics - and only needed the router WPA password to get on-line :)) I can still see the face of the salesman in the pawnbroker's shop when I shoved a 'Live' distro into the CD drive of a laptop and had a working Linux system, in less time than it took to boot the pre-installed WinXP. > I do tend to recommend ubuntu to people, even Windows users are > impressed at how easy it is to get it going. I'm a fan of Mandriva, ever since Mandrake 9 was the first distro I managed to install, get running, and make sense of. But I am in the process of getting an Arch Linux system built to my liking on the Libretto. That's one of the distros that would have put me right off Linux back when I was a Windows refugee - but now has a considerable appeal. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
From: Nix on 25 Nov 2008 18:58 On 25 Nov 2008, Ian Rawlings said: > Still by far the only distro I'd touch with a bargepole though. You use distros? ;) -- `Not even vi uses vi key bindings for its command line.' --- PdS
From: Ian Rawlings on 26 Nov 2008 01:51 On 2008-11-25, Nix <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote: > You use distros? ;) Yes since I got tired of pulling in all the dependencies that modern packages have, it used to be the case that installing a new package meant I could create a directory in /usr/local, download the source to it and compile the package in there, but the library count started to skyrocket so I ran out of bother. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! http://youtube.com/user/tarcus69 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarcus/sets/
From: William Poaster on 26 Nov 2008 07:51 On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:58:46 +0000, Whiskers wrote: > On 2008-11-24, Susan Harris <susanbharris1972(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Was thinking of buying a eePC 901 from PC World, but noticed that the >> Linux one is 40 quid more expensive than the XP one! Sure, you get a >> bigger "disk", but that still seems a little weird. >> >> Think the Linux one's will come down in price to match the XP ones soon? > > Going straight to the horse's mouth, Asus seem to think that the Linux and > WinXP versions of the EeePC901 should both cost the same on the high > street - �254 +VAT, or �299 inclusive (but wait till next week and the > VAT should go down from 17.5% to 15%, if the Chancellor gets his way). > <http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=0&l2=0&modelmenu=0&share=txt/257> - > the price list is a Excell spreadsheet! > > But retailers are free to set their own prices. So shop around, or haggle > with PC World. > > Amazon seem to think the Linux version should be slightly cheaper than the > WinXP version > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/qid=1227554962/ref=sr_kk_2/277-9480910-3922065?i > e=UTF8&search-alias=aps&field-keywords=eee%20pc%20901> or > <http://xrl.us/ox967> > > The PC World web site suggests that they are trying to get rid of the > WinXP version, as it shows the price having been cut by �50 while the > (once �10 cheaper) Linux version has not had its price cut. One of the *main* reasons why computers with M$ windows installed are cheaper than Linux ones, is because they have "demo" versions of applications (like M$ Office) installed & the vendors *pay* to have them put on the system. However when the demo version's period is up, the person will then have to either buy the application, or do without. I assume the bigger disk is to accommodate these demos, & the M$ bloatware. So in the long term, the Windoze version is not cheaper. -- Most people are sheep. � Microsoft is very effective at fleecing the flockers.
From: Daniel James on 26 Nov 2008 08:50
In article news:<slrngio9jb.jhj.news06(a)desktop.tarcus.org.uk>, Ian Rawlings wrote: > ... it takes all bleedin' day to install a gentoo setup. It took half a week on my mini-ITX box. Updates seldom take more than a day, with a decent PC running distccd to help. > Still by far the only distro I'd touch with a bargepole though. Oh, debian's OK ... and I haven't actually bothered to remove Xandros from my EEE (though I have run some updates from debian repos). Cheers, Daniel. |