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Mark Shuttleworth Tries To Lure OpenSUSE Devs
polar_bear` writes "A lot of developers are angry at Novell for its deal with Microsoft, but is it fair game for other vendors to try to capitalize on dissatisfaction with Novell? Apparently, Mark Shuttleworth thinks so. Shuttleworth sent an invitation to the openSUSE developers list inviting developers 'concerned about the long term consequences' of Novell's deal to participate in Ubuntu Open Week and consider jumping ship to Ubuntu. OpenSUSE and Ubuntu developers are not amused."
Hi dude!
:) you have all your life on front of you to keep on playing!
44 years old and you think you are getting older?
Come on! maybe at 70 years old you can say something like that but not at 44!!!
Stop your arthritis and keep playing Pacman, MoonPatrol, Phoenix, Galaxian, Mario Bros, Doom, Medal of Honor and DotA
------ hand fits giving
Linspire/Freespire is the only Linux distro that I am currently willing to recommend to people who aren't tech savvy (at least when I don't want to, or am unable to, set it up myself). It works and it's similar enough to how Windows works that people who haven't used anything else ever are comfortable enough to use it. And now they no longer charge for access to their CNR basic repository (which has software that they never should have charged people to have access to). The distro sucks for geeks, but for the non-tech savvy it still can't be beat. Ubuntu is sort of close... but by refusing to have anything proprietary it will never "just work" because graphics drivers and such aren't free as in beer yet.
Read my blog posts on usability.
Yeah and just look on their forums how bad their support is. Only in August of this year were they getting XGL and Compiz working, and when one of the people had left his xorg.conf with 32 bit depth, the maintainer of the package didn't say hey you're meant to change that to 24 (like the error message he posted indicated) but hey ho rum tum tum to effect of something useless. That distribution doesn't work... their "famous CNR" is piece of crap with out dated software and breaks very easy. Linspire was the first distro I tried, mainly because I got a free coupon from some random site and had just got broadband... I stayed with it for less than a month because it was so useless. Ubuntu was like a breath of fresh air. Apt-get worked properly on it and CNR is no better than synaptic, just with far less software. Linspire is only better because it comes with codecs... which I only use now to play stuff from my ipod. I don't know why anyone would seriously think that Linspire works better than Ubuntu. Sure I recommend it as an option to idiots but they usually prefer Ubuntu anyway.