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Mom Meets Linux - A Lindows 4.0 Review
JimLynch writes "We just put up the first review of Lindows 4.0, with a twist. I actually gave it to my Mom to see if she could use it. Find out if Lindows 4.0 passed the "Mom Test.""
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Oh er um maybe not...
I'm glad to see that Lindows failed with flying colors. Before you mod me down, let me explain.
Linux owes much of its success to its position as an elite, powerful operating system, reserved for the best and the brightest of society. This allows us to turn any Micro$oft FUD about "usability" against them. It is our weakness which makes us strong.
For Linux to maintain its place as the champion of server and desktop OSen, we must resist the temptation to dumb it down for ordinary "lusers."
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
Mmmm, that mom was hot. What I would do to be one of the author's friends so I could hook up with her!
in case you're interested in how much they mucked up kde, here's a couple screenshot
It would be:
You're a faggot, you stupid homosexual faggot.
mmmm Your mom likes to play jizzball?
Is Lunix a new Linux distribution from SCO? If it is from SCO then it is definately not _free_
Lunix: Lunatic's Unix
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Best-Selling U.S. Author Leon Uris Dies
Tue June 24, 2003 12:18 PM ET
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best-selling American novelist Leon Uris, best known for "Exodus" about the creation of Israel and "Trinity" on the conflict in Ireland, has died in New York, his ex-wife, Jill Uris, said on Tuesday. He was 78.
She said by telephone from Aspen, Colorado, that the novelist died on Saturday at his home on New York's Shelter Island after suffering from various ailments.
Jill Uris said the author had lived on the small island off Long Island since 1989 and that a new book, "O'Hara's Choice" -- a historical fiction about the U.S. Marine Corps -- was scheduled to be published by HarperCollins in October.
"He completed it in the spring," she said.
Uris' novels reflected his experiences as a Marine in World War II and as a war correspondent. His first novel, "Battle Cry," was published in 1953 when he was 29 years old and it was turned into a film.
Apart from "Exodus" in 1958 and "Trinity" in 1976, Uris was also known for his screenplay, "Gunfight at the OK Corral," a 1957 movie directed by John Sturges with Hollywood stars Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
In 1956, six years after becoming a full-time writer, Uris reported on the Middle East conflict.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1924, Uris attended schools in Maryland and Virginia, but never graduated from high school. At 17, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the South Pacific. After World War II, he married the first of his three wives and worked briefly as a driver for a newspaper.
HARD-LIVING
His 1988 work, "Mitla Pass" was a largely autobiographical account of the Sinai campaign of 1956.
The book's editor Herman Gollob, a former editor-in-chief at publisher Doubleday, described Uris as a "committed Jew" and a larger-than-life character.
"He was a handful. He was one of those great sort of Hemingway-esque he-men authors," Gollob said. "He was a story-teller, he had a great ego but he was a warm, great friend and he could be a ferocious enemy as well, that's the way he saw life.
"The books he wrote were great epics, sagas of people caught up in history. He was a man of incredible appetites, hard-drinking, hard-living, a man of passion and commitments," Gollob said.
The 600-page "Exodus" was published in 1958, translated into 50 languages and became an international best-seller. It told the story of the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel through the experiences of several characters.
Uris followed it up with "Exodus Revisited" in 1960.
By the time "Trinity" was published in 1976, he had established his reputation for long, dramatic stories. The main characters in his book about Ireland were a Roman Catholic rebel and a Protestant girl trying to find their way in a country with deep religious and economic divisions.
Uris married three times. He leaves five children from two of the marriages.
Uh oh, looks like we've got a Lindows Loser on our hands...
Yes and no.
It's built on the OS X kernel.
I'm sorry... Lindows is a shameless attempt to take something that is free and repackage it as something that costs money to compete/look like something that costs more money. Lindows is not free and not GPL compatible, so how do they get away with using GPL'd stuff? "The pricing of Click N' Run software has changed from $49.95 a year to $4.95 a month" That means it's $60 a year!!! I think the OSS/GPL community should focus on making a seriously usable, more efficient and stable UI w/ a simple and powerful API. Maybe ditch X & C? I think that Java, Python, AOP, self-generating code (like LISP) and langugages w/ embedded expert knowlege systems (something like JESS) are the future... platform specific apps are headed for the dust-bin of history: C does not scale well and there's too many hacks/incompatibilities/evil things and C++ polymorphism is a inconsistent, incomplete kludge. You can argue and justify *NIX & C all day long, but the security issues (strcmp, gets) and wild pointers give programs zero protection, almost like each program is an old skool DOS machine, where it can go wild writing shit everywhere w/ pointers w/o security. I propose that programs and libraries have defensive security models *built-in*, so that private data is actually secured, in a real way.
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
She found me hard, and herself easy.
Run with Scissors!
She found me hard. She also found me easy - she asked me to do her and I did her. That's as easy as it cums.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
I have been evaluating linux lately for the desktop user as an alternative to the microsoft tax in my business. I sell computers to end users. My very first criteria was flash support out of the box. If I went to a website with flash and it did not work immediately or i was not presented an option to install flash, then the distro failed. I immediately tried another distro. Yes I do realize that you can go to macromedia and download a tar or rpm, but joe end user will know nothing about that. When linux gets that easy, it will be ready for the desktop.
Tis better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt --Abraham Lincoln