Linux & the Business Desktop

Ulwarth writes: "Desktop Linux is running a feature documenting a mid-sized company switching to Linux on the desktop, like the City of Largo but this time in a corporate environment. Proof that it can be done - at least for businesses which need only the 'standard' office apps."

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Re:The obviously most pressing issue

[Graymalkin]

Oh come on you can't REALLY believe your own drivel can you? From much experience I know rpm -i packagename works about 20% of the fucking time. If you HAPPEN to be running your system with the same configuration as the guy who packaged the program you don't have a problem but most of the time this is not the case. Use SuSE when everyone else is using RH and you'll see how fucked up most RPM packages are. I've had to spend extra time downloading and doing make install to get shit working because the binary packages were fucked up. At least with make I'd know what I was missing. Like the original poster said, it is useless to tell someone a library is missing (no matter what OS you're using). Tell the person where to get it or find it for them and install it and overcome the hurdle. It also has been a really long time since I've had an installation file on Windows break something I already had or refuse to load up or some such. The fact that you have isn't the fault of Windows and the fact I've come across many a fucked up RPM package is not the fault of Linux. The fault is the dumbfucks who make these install packages but can't fathom the concept of alternate configurations besides what they use. On MacOS all I have to do is drag a single icon to the hard drive and installation is complete. You can talk about ease of install when you can do that with Linux.

DOS is not watered down Unix, the fact both share a command line doesn't make them in any way fucking related. Modern OSS GUI systems are just copies of Windows. Windows' modern GUI is a knock off of the MacOS GUI so in essence everything is a knock off of the Mac. Find a respected GUI system developer who hasn't read Apple's HIG if you don't think so.