To clarify a bit, the "Conseil Constitutionnel" in France is supposed to check that new laws respect the principles of the French Constitution, which is supposed to respect the principles of the "Men and Citizens's Right Declaration" from 1789. From now Internet in France is recongnized as a fundamental right, associated to the right to communicate freely.
Well my employer is a native of Cameroon and we are planning to open an office there at the end of the year because there is a lot to do in this country: build intranets and IT infrastructures, transmit knowledge to techs etc.
Of course we will support existing Windows installations but for our internal IT and for most of our solutions we'll use Linux and FOSS software, mainly because of the opportunity to start things in a different way.
We also think that because migrating things, re-training people etc will be less often needed, the adoption of these solutions will be easier than it is in more developped countries where Microsoft dominates machines and minds.
About perception, I see a similitude between FOSS and developping countries in the sense that both of them are trying to gain a place in a world/market which has been conquered by others.
PS: outside the technical field my English is a bit approximative, thanks for your comprehension.
It's fair enough that some heavy calculation takes longer time if you have some other heavy job or service running, but the initial latency from any user request until you get some sort of reaction should be as low as possible. And XP is much better in this regard than Windows 7 or Vista (and also faster than all Linux distros I've been running).
Have you tried archlinux ? This distro is optimised for i686 and x64 architectures and thus is as reactive as a fresh and clean XP install on the same hardware (R60 Thinkpad). The good thing about it is that unless XP it stays reactive over time without requiring as much maintenance.
I also recently migrated my / and/home to ext4 and noticed improvements with the speed of disk operations: booting, doing updatedb/makewhatis/etc, accessing package manager database etc.
I tried Mandriva, Fedora, Debian, Slackware and finally I'm happy with Arch especially because of it's snappy feeling on a KDE environnement
Windows application and/or driver installation requires the application/package
This is precisely the point where Linux package system is far easier and secure to use than Windows one.
No Linux distro I have tried has EVER followed as simple an installation process. Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, DSL- Each had its own quirks, almost all of which required shell commands. (In fact, I believe all required it.)
When you tried those distros maybe you missed pirut, synaptics etc, the GUI frontends to rpm, apt, etc ?
Your answer may be in the way that Turkey manages human rights, torture and that sort of things.
Not sure if turkey's main religion is Islam, but in France muslims represent the second most important community in the country.
And also because we don't integrate people into a melting pot but trough metissage (read: people from different communities get married), we are not exactly racist people.
Even the muslims found this veil demand out of point. The modern and moderated ones did, but they represent the majority of people in this community.
And apparently you didn't even read the article at all. Anyway, what really confuse me is that part:
"After you install Office 2003 SP3, some Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003, and Corel Draw (.cdr) file formats are blocked."
We are proud to announce that Office 2003 is 100% secure now: it's not able to open or save anything now !
I'm French and in my country the usual name for OS is Exploitation System. Firstly it refers to the user exploiting the machine but nowadays with Microsoft products it sounds more and more the contrary.
So true and sorry by advance for my bad English:
- 15 years ago before playing a movie, cinemas showed ads during 5 or 10 minutes. Nowadays we have to wait 30 minutes watching those stupid senseless ads. Ok then the ticket price should have been lowered therefore. Unfortunately it was multiplied by 2.
- There has been the vinyl disc, the tape, the CD as support for audio. How many times will we have to pay the authors for the same content ? Lots of people want to stay honest but it's clearly a ripoff. And please don't tell me about new releases which, thanks to crappy tv shows imported from anglophon countries like new pop star real tv my *, need to be fully listened before buying: you don't want to buy a "1 average track promoted thtough medias - crap from 2nd track untill the end", do you ?
- Actually in France we pay a tax for every media able to be a support for a "private copy" such as blank CDs, HDDs, MP3 players etc, no matter we burn Linux distros, listen to free music or copy a friend's album. Technically the DADVSI law denies to citizens the 'private copy right', but the media tax is still here and continues to extend its application range. Once again, it's a ripoff.
- This Sarko clown talks about culture diversity but the corporation he defends such FNAC acts against it: they are supposed to redistribute money from consumers to artists but actually they only give a lot to well-known ones, often involved in politics (MAFIAA yes). As it was mentionned Sarko dwarf doesn't know about the Web and little artists which aren't in marketing fashions.
- For a lot of people the wages have not raised since 10 years (or even 20 in some cases) compared to the prices and to the wages and benefits of few others. Considering movies, CDs, videogames becoming luxual products sounds crazy.
So yes it might be understandable that customers don't want to be treated like "cow gimme your milk" without enjoying anything because boo that's pirating.
Remeber that EU representants in the instutution are often changing and the political forces too, so the mileage may vary. From what you say I guess you're not a citizen of EU. If by chance you were American, maybe you could explain us restoftheworlders what the Microsoft's homeland government is actually doing about those matters ?
Sorry about my poor English.
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Yep, nearly ten years ago it was already possible to boot Windows XP from cold start within 30 seconds:
7200K 2MB cache IDE HDD + Athlon XP CPU + 512Mo DDR + some know-how :)
Please mod parent up, this is a very interesting video to watch.
To clarify a bit, the "Conseil Constitutionnel" in France is supposed to check that new laws respect the principles of the French Constitution, which is supposed to respect the principles of the "Men and Citizens's Right Declaration" from 1789.
From now Internet in France is recongnized as a fundamental right, associated to the right to communicate freely.
Well my employer is a native of Cameroon and we are planning to open an office there at the end of the year because there is a lot to do in this country: build intranets and IT infrastructures, transmit knowledge to techs etc.
Of course we will support existing Windows installations but for our internal IT and for most of our solutions we'll use Linux and FOSS software, mainly because of the opportunity to start things in a different way.
We also think that because migrating things, re-training people etc will be less often needed, the adoption of these solutions will be easier than it is in more developped countries where Microsoft dominates machines and minds.
About perception, I see a similitude between FOSS and developping countries in the sense that both of them are trying to gain a place in a world/market which has been conquered by others.
PS: outside the technical field my English is a bit approximative, thanks for your comprehension.
It's fair enough that some heavy calculation takes longer time if you have some other heavy job or service running, but the initial latency from any user request until you get some sort of reaction should be as low as possible. And XP is much better in this regard than Windows 7 or Vista (and also faster than all Linux distros I've been running).
Have you tried archlinux ? This distro is optimised for i686 and x64 architectures and thus is as reactive as a
/home to ext4 and noticed improvements with the speed of disk operations:
fresh and clean XP install on the same hardware (R60 Thinkpad). The good thing about it is that unless XP it
stays reactive over time without requiring as much maintenance.
I also recently migrated my / and
booting, doing updatedb/makewhatis/etc, accessing package manager database etc.
I tried Mandriva, Fedora, Debian, Slackware and finally I'm happy with Arch especially because of it's snappy
feeling on a KDE environnement
Windows application and/or driver installation requires the application/package
This is precisely the point where Linux package system is far easier and secure to use than Windows one.
No Linux distro I have tried has EVER followed as simple an installation process. Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, DSL- Each had its own quirks, almost all of which required shell commands. (In fact, I believe all required it.)
When you tried those distros maybe you missed pirut, synaptics etc, the GUI frontends to rpm, apt, etc ?
If wifi is your only way to use the network and if you don't have a driver for your wifi chip you're screwed, no matter what your os is :)
Your answer may be in the way that Turkey manages human rights, torture and that sort of things.
Not sure if turkey's main religion is Islam, but in France muslims represent the second most important community in the country.
And also because we don't integrate people into a melting pot but trough metissage (read: people from different communities get married), we are not exactly racist people.
Even the muslims found this veil demand out of point. The modern and moderated ones did, but they represent the majority of people in this community.
So true, unfortunately this doesn't help French people because in our country IP violations are considered as criminal acts.
And apparently you didn't even read the article at all. Anyway, what really confuse me is that part:
"After you install Office 2003 SP3, some Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003, and Corel Draw (.cdr) file formats are blocked."
We are proud to announce that Office 2003 is 100% secure now: it's not able to open or save anything now !
Just kidding, but hey, this is Microsoft.
I also go about 10% idle with XP ... running inside vmware on my single core 2.4GHz Athlon64, according to top.
And this actually is proven wrong by content providers selling more and more content DRM-free, especially in the music area.
I'm French and in my country the usual name for OS is Exploitation System. Firstly it refers to the user exploiting the machine but nowadays with Microsoft products it sounds more and more the contrary.
Well thank you, it's a bit difficult for a non-native English reader to guess the link with the artificial grass brand etc.
Pardon my ignorance but what's an astrosurfer ? Thanks by advance.
So true and sorry by advance for my bad English: - 15 years ago before playing a movie, cinemas showed ads during 5 or 10 minutes. Nowadays we have to wait 30 minutes watching those stupid senseless ads. Ok then the ticket price should have been lowered therefore. Unfortunately it was multiplied by 2. - There has been the vinyl disc, the tape, the CD as support for audio. How many times will we have to pay the authors for the same content ? Lots of people want to stay honest but it's clearly a ripoff. And please don't tell me about new releases which, thanks to crappy tv shows imported from anglophon countries like new pop star real tv my *, need to be fully listened before buying: you don't want to buy a "1 average track promoted thtough medias - crap from 2nd track untill the end", do you ? - Actually in France we pay a tax for every media able to be a support for a "private copy" such as blank CDs, HDDs, MP3 players etc, no matter we burn Linux distros, listen to free music or copy a friend's album. Technically the DADVSI law denies to citizens the 'private copy right', but the media tax is still here and continues to extend its application range. Once again, it's a ripoff. - This Sarko clown talks about culture diversity but the corporation he defends such FNAC acts against it: they are supposed to redistribute money from consumers to artists but actually they only give a lot to well-known ones, often involved in politics (MAFIAA yes). As it was mentionned Sarko dwarf doesn't know about the Web and little artists which aren't in marketing fashions. - For a lot of people the wages have not raised since 10 years (or even 20 in some cases) compared to the prices and to the wages and benefits of few others. Considering movies, CDs, videogames becoming luxual products sounds crazy. So yes it might be understandable that customers don't want to be treated like "cow gimme your milk" without enjoying anything because boo that's pirating.
Remeber that EU representants in the instutution are often changing and the political forces too, so the mileage may vary. From what you say I guess you're not a citizen of EU. If by chance you were American, maybe you could explain us restoftheworlders what the Microsoft's homeland government is actually doing about those matters ? Sorry about my poor English.