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Perens: Unite behind Debian, UserLinux
An anonymous readers writes "Infoworld is running a report on the Desktop Linux Conference, at which Bruce Perens suggested that in order to get Linux to the enterprise desktop, the Linux community should base their efforts on one single distribution... based on Debian.
Perens went on to say that enterprises will be willing to pay Linux companies to engineer versions of Linux to suit their needs, but that the base distro should remain free. He suggested that by 2006, 30% of enterprise desktops will run Linux." Here is a wired story with more information about his proposed UserLinux project.
Follow me and the one true faith. Burn the heretics.
You'll be packaged (.deb of course)
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I was quite amused when at a recent conference someone described Open Source as Free Software with a politics-obotomy...
Steve Jobs unexpectly announced today he thinks you should use a Macintosh.
Bill Gates made an interesting proposal that everyone use windows.
Scott McNealy outlined a plan he has in which everyone uses Solaris.
Larry Ellison, in a widely-publicized press conference, stated that everyone should give him money.
More on these sudden and shocking developments as news unfolds.
All your base are belong to us.
Spam: Install spambayes.
Updating and patching: Use automatic update.
Virus eradication: All antivirus programs download updates automatically.
So, if you spend your "family" support time doing those things, I'd suggest you admit you know jackshit about Windows. You are able to solve ALL the problems you mention with a 15 minute investment and NO MONEY spent. So, for the sake of your family's computers, STAY AWAY FROM THEM!
Yes, there may be valid reasons for moving to Linux but the ones you mention are most definitely not it.
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
It's so confusing to be free! I wish somebody in charge would make all of our hard decisions, then we don't have to do any work. Work is hard! If being free means hard work, you can keep it. I'll keep Microsoft, Fox News and the GOP!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I don't. They don't think the computer "runs" Windows, they think the computer IS Windows.
I try not be so damned pessimistic about these kinds of things but I spend all day supporting these monkeys and I've reached the conclusion that there's almost no hope for them.
Some people will pick up on the differences but they're in the vast minority. Still I guess a few is better than none at all.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
She prefers it to windows xp because "it has better games"
Better games? Better games?
Go out and buy her some commercial games, you old cheapskate. Expecting a seven year old to be happy with just Solitaire verges on the abusive.
Both Gnome and KDE use freetype/Xft to render fonts, so there is no difference between them there.
Gnome's biggest problem is that the goofballs who are writing it just can't stand to see 1000 bytes of replicated code. As soon as a function is used by more than one program (even if one of them is in developement and won't be available for years) they go "oh no we need a shared library!". They do this before they even debug the function, so instead you have a whole string of shared library versions and you always need the correct one. This mentality is why Gnome consists of literally hundreds of shared libraries and that you always have to download every single one of them with any program. Wake up guys: cut and paste the code and static link, it is not an affront to the programming Gods, it is a sensible and practical way to develop usable software! And practically speaking, the overhead of shared libraries way outweighs any plausable savings by sharing some functions. If they are really in such a panic over this, it would be better to have Linux hash-code read-only pages and share identical ones, so when you static-link a library into several programs, Linux may notice the matching pages and save your precious 10 or 20 K.
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