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Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros
prostoalex writes "Seattle Times section on Personal Technology compares Xandros and Lindows as two alternatives to Windows for desktop computing. Their verdict: installation - excellent; OpenOffice - good enough; digital cameras, printers and other peripherals - excellent; CD burning - no problems; video playback - could be better (with more progress bars and support for Apple's formats); digital camcorders - poor; burning audio CDs - poor; Net access and Web browsing - no problems."
> installation - excellent
:(
So if I can't get it to work, what does that make me?
I think I'll go try Slackware
I use Gentoo, you insensitive clod!
Are DMA transfers enabled on your CD-ROM drive IDE channel?
porn surfing is better with Linux and I'll say why.
Most of the times I sign up to a website only to find that I can't download the videos. I have to watch it streaming from the Internet. This is of course very fraustrating because it is slow and it forces me to keep my membership. Usually Media Player is the default player so it opens it and obeys the website's command and streams.
Programs like Download Accelerator help a little, but the sites have gotten smarter as well.
Now with Mozilla and some video program running I can bypass their system and usually get to save the videos. If not, usually linux video player save the video on disk in the cache somewhere and those can be easily recovered.
Now the only thing I'm trying to get around is the annoying link to a page that contains the picture you want to view, so there is no way to leech the site of pictures. I'm too lazy to write a program to crawl... and wget doesn't do what I want to do sometimes.
Oh well. It's all about choices I guess.
They're right on the back of the CD jewel case, usually on an orange sticker about 3 inches across.
creation science book
> The good folks at RealNetworks have an opportunity
> to become a de facto standard but they should run
> right out of the box
I never thought to see "good folks" and RealNetworks so close in one sentence...
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
Let's face it...if a desktop operating system doesn't come with a great thumbnailing preview app, excellent support for streaming media formats, and the ability to survive having the keyboard and mouse suddenly being disconnected to have semen cleaned out, then it really isn't up to scratch. In future, I'd propose to reviewers evaluating desktop Linux systems a few extra categories:
Disabled accessibility: Many operating systems have features designed to make them easier to use for the blind, deaf, or just plain stupid. But can the interface be easily manipulated using one hand only? Can the video player be precisely controlled with only a few fingers, while the other hand is wrapped around the user's own few inches?
Web brower pop-up enabling and tracking: While most users claim to clamour for browsers which block annoying pop-up ads, in reality they crave what these pop-ups are offering: free porn. Does the desktop OS under review offer a browser platform which makes following these pop-up nuggets of jizz-candy easy to follow and track? Can the browser in fact follow its own trail of pop-ups, closing those containing circular links, and launching the download manager when a rare find of actual porn is found?
I'm sure the Slashdot community will have plenty of other ideas to contribute. I look forward to hearing the community's response!
that's not funny at all as you can't enable dma when burning audio on a 2.4 kernel
And 10,000 Microsoft employees cancel their subscriptions in protest to their communist tendancies the next day.
It's a joke. Laugh.
I was like, burning some audio cds from my mp3s.. and it was like BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP, and I was like, what happened? And it went BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP again and the next thing I knew, my mp3s were gone. They were some really good mp3s.
Best death? What, die from a naked lady avalanche?
This just in... the RIAA and the MPAA are now strongly supporting Linux as their OS of choice.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Imagine if the fire department acted like that.
"No, sir. We see no possible way that your house could be on fire at this time. I'm quite sure that if you wait a few more moments, you will see that there is no problem at all."
I'M STANDING IN THE FRONT YARD WATCHING MY BURNING ROOF FALL IN YOU IDIOTS!
"Sir, are you on drugs?"
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
But that suggestion wasn't meant for normal users! It was meant for Slashdotters.
LoL... then you need to dumb it up even more and then add a few flames to it... Like this:
You can burn all mp3's in the current directory by using
mp3burn -o 'dev=x,x,x speed=XX' *mp3
Microsoft sux! OSS is teh win!
I want to marry Linus!
This actually appeared in a newspaper:
Commenting on a complaint from a Mr Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West gas said, "We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house." (The Daily Telegraph).
And that's just people I know.
You need to get out more...
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!