I hope the co-worker's computer has 3d acceleration, so you can install Beryl and amaze her. My parents use Ubuntu since 6.04 and I never had to deal with malware anymore.
My father (63 years old) never really understood the desktop concept, how you can have several application opened at once, and how their windows may be on top of the others, hiding them (when he used MS-Windows it was even worse). But when I showed him the "exposé-like" feature of Beryl he immediately understood what was going on and how to work with the opened windows.
I'd like to know how the co-worker is going to react... would you mind replying to this post or sending e-mail to daniel at basso.inf.br when everything's ready?
actually you're just a product of my observation, and will cease to exist when I close this tab...:) that would be very convenient for all the bs we observe about RIAA, patents, wars... if only we could live in a large scale quantum world, things would be more interesting.
No, I meant "desktop" as in "KDE - K Desktop Environment", or the GNOME Desktop. In the case of OLPC, Sugar is the "desktop", and it's written in Python. But you also have the firmware (that was coded in Forth), the Linux kernel, the GNU tools, the X server, all written in a mix of languages.
Those patterns look like random data in video memory, with the default color palette of VGA's mode 13h. Ten years ago I wrote some x86 assembly code with quite similar results!:)
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I hope the co-worker's computer has 3d acceleration, so you can install Beryl and amaze her. My parents use Ubuntu since 6.04 and I never had to deal with malware anymore.
My father (63 years old) never really understood the desktop concept, how you can have several application opened at once, and how their windows may be on top of the others, hiding them (when he used MS-Windows it was even worse). But when I showed him the "exposé-like" feature of Beryl he immediately understood what was going on and how to work with the opened windows.
I'd like to know how the co-worker is going to react... would you mind replying to this post or sending e-mail to daniel at basso.inf.br when everything's ready?
It would be really awesome if they'd GPL Office 97 sources, it would certainly be a great reading for a good laugh! =]
actually you're just a product of my observation, and will cease to exist when I close this tab... :)
that would be very convenient for all the bs we observe about RIAA, patents, wars... if only we could live in a large scale quantum world, things would be more interesting.
No, I meant "desktop" as in "KDE - K Desktop Environment", or the GNOME Desktop. In the case of OLPC, Sugar is the "desktop", and it's written in Python. But you also have the firmware (that was coded in Forth), the Linux kernel, the GNU tools, the X server, all written in a mix of languages.
You mean, Python based official OLPC desktop.
Those patterns look like random data in video memory, with the default color palette of VGA's mode 13h. Ten years ago I wrote some x86 assembly code with quite similar results! :)