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Linux on the Desktop: More Balls Through Windows
doom writes "There's a story up in the free area of The Economist site about 'Linux on Desktop PCs' called:
More balls through Windows. Pretty much the same old stuff, but if you wanted something new you wouldn't be reading slashdot, eh?" Cynic.
"Software to manage personal finances or organise digital photos is also missing."
Gnucash pretty much has Finace wrapped up, whilst for organising digital photos, you can't go wrong with gkam and gphoto2 to get the images from your digital camera, gimp to touch them up, and the rather excellent Nautilus to view thumbnails and organise.
Or am I missing the point here?
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
okay, I'll bite. 'Organise' is the British spelling. 'Organize' is the US spelling. The Economist is a British magazine (they call themselves a newspaper).
So, you really just made yourself look like an idiot.
hmmm... flaming really *is* good for hangovers...
They've been running this exact story (Dell! Sun! HP!) for at least four years. The new article even starts by acknolwedging that.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
The way I see it the key factor for getting Linux onto the desktop as a consumer OS is that I should be able to walk into a high street electronics shop, buy a digital camera (or printer, scanner, video digitiser, graphics tablet &c) and have it just work when I plug it in to my PC. At most I should have to put a CD in the CD drive which will automatically start up the driver installation program which will require no more than clicking next a few times and deciding whether I want an icon put on my 'Start Menu', Desktop or both.
People are used to the Windows way of doing things. Whilst the Linux drivers for a lot of devices are becoming more common that level of ease of use is not currently available with any distro I've come accross.
Fortunately there is a project (Project Utopia) aimed at providing that. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of publicity about it outside the blogs of the authors and a few forum posts and geeky website articles. Last night I atteneded a Linux user group meeting in Birmingham (Eric Raymond was due to speak but got called away at the last minute so someoneelse delivered the talk), of the 70 odd people in the room only two or three had even heard of this project. Hopelyfully this will change as one of the developers will be speaking at OSCON about it this year.
Stephen
"Don't write down to your readers, the only people less intelligent than you can't read" - Sign on Newspaper Office Wall
find . -name .DS_Store -exec rm "{}" ';'
At least it gets rid of the damn files.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Yesterday, my brother called me because its newly installed Windows XP operating system was behaving mysteriously. After upgrading from Windows 2000 (which I installed for him), he connected to the Internet via a modem.
At this point, everything was OK but a worm exploiting a vulnerability in Windows XP infected him at his first use of the Internet. Wow! This is a slam in the face for an average user!
He brought his computer to my home. Since there was no easy solution for his problem, I had to format its hard drive and restart the installation. This morning, I started the update process which is time consuming - you need to be in front of the computer to update it.
My opinion is that Linux is ready for the desktop due to the lack of security of Microsoft products.
Try the veto files directive in Samba
veto files =
in you smb.conf files.
I used veto files before to geep you the pesky "My Music" folder that windows plops down when it thinks a smaba share is a "My Documents" folder.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Add parameters to your smb.conf file.
/._*/.DS_Store/
hide dotfiles = yes
You might try some or all of these options, read the man page for smb.conf if you have questions.
fake oplocks = yes
strict locking = no
veto oplock files =