It works well, too, but can be a bit slow. Also like most VNCs there is no audio support but for remote troubleshooting it should be fine. Give it a go. Find it
here
Nobody except the millions of people like me who use Gnome. The current version is near-perfect and the new one seems to have lost all the good points and added nothing. OK, all the desktops on screen at once could be useful once in a while, but WTF! If it ain't broke (and it ain't), don't "fix" it.
So you're advocating a system where whatever you buy, it has to have the same item at it's heart. You want a new car, go round the showrooms and find whether you order a Ford, a Ferrari or a Dodge, it has to come with a 2 liter Toyota Deisel engine?
One of ubuntu's (and Linux in general) main obstacles is the lack of public awareness. You go to a computer store and everything on offer is pre-loaded with windoze...it's as if no other O/S exists. What Canonical really need to try to do (and I appreciate that this would not be without cost) is get the CD's in the stores so that punters buying a new computer will see it as a viable alternative to M$ products. Ideally, of course it would be nice if manufacturers could offer it pre-installed across their ranges as well. Also, as many people are hugely suspicious of anything 'free' and anything 'new', packaging it with a (sensibly priced) support service might be another way of 'selling' Linux to the masses.
How is installing something that doesn't do what I need it to do sane?
Clearly it's not, but for (I'm guessing) 90% of computer users, ubuntu will do everything they want, quickly and well. It comes with an excellent browser (Firefox), a great email client (Evolution), OpenOffice for word processing and more, and Gimp is a more than half-decent graphics and photo suite. Also you can run a lot of 'Windoze' software under Wine. As far as I know the only things it won't do are some games (which doesn't bother me and millions of other computer users) and any video using.wmv, so you might occassionally come across some prOn you can't view, but again who cares...there's enough out there using embedded players to satisfy anyone, and VLC works fine on Linux and can play pretty much anything anyway!
What! people actually pay MONEY for an operating system? Yes, and worse still they can only use it on one computer the way M$ say they can. Find sanity in an insane world.
...the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one...
Jedidiah (above) got it about right. It's already there so why not use it. It's a crappy old Compaq with a Celeron and barely any RAM and is slowwwww! , so it's not much good for anything else. It's also useful as I do a bit of HTML/CSS and it means I can easily check my work on "Windows" browsers, specifically IE6 and Chrome, as well as Safari (I have Opera and Firefox on the ubuntu box). Also it isn't actually On much anyway, I just turn it on when I need it (well, 5 minutes before I need it...it does run Windows!)
...there's certainly people who like to have a second pc for other purposes too. Most people who have Linux PC... probably have a Windows PC too because you can't really do everything with Linux.
I kept my old windows box when I bought a new computer on which I run ubuntu, which does everything I want very well. The windows box now runs headless (VNC and samba) mostly as a back-up HDD, and as a driver for my old Lexmark printer, for which there are no Linux drivers.
Yes, but ubuntu is free open-source software and no-one in China knows what "Free" or "Open" mean.
You are a dumb-ass. Not to mention a bigot.
My comment was aimed at the consequences of the repressive politics of China, not it's people, so please don't think of me as a bigot. I am grateful for the freedoms and open-ness of our society, and I merely chose to express my view through irony.
However, it has one major hurdle to overcome: it doesn't support Windows.
Fuck Windows. Seriously.
I've been unwillingly paying the Microsoft tax for TEN YEARS. All I ever do is wipe Windows and install Linux. If my new computer can't run Windows then... great!! Maybe I won't have to pay the tax.
On a serious note, why not get your computer built for you (or DIY if you can). I had mine built by a small local company (Intel core2 quad, 4Gig RAM and 250Gig hard drive so a decent spec) and it cost well under £300. It came 'empty' - no OS - so I could install Ubuntu with NO Windoze contamination. It works geat. It's never given me any trouble at all and it does everything I want, quickly and very well.
With the budget problems faced by NASA and the obvious enthusiasm for space exploration shown by other nations, surely it is time for more co-operation. It is becoming clear that an International Space Agency of some sort is needed although I'm not sure who is best placed to administer this (the UN is the only international body with enough stature to do it, but does not normally concern itself with 'scientific' matters). As things stand, national pride is seriously holding back mankind's ambitions in space, and ultimately all of mankind will lose out if we're not careful.
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This won't play for me. If you've got the same problem go here
Tragically this is because the degradation is instead shifted to the editors.
And the fact that there have now been 100,000 First Posts!
I don't understand why more people are not using it.
I, for one, haven't heard of it 'till you mentioned it.
Me too, but it does seem quite good...I've added it to my Opera search options. Thanx Leepil.
I wonder if the good folk at Redmond are this enlightened. I suspect not!
this e-fit that helped the Bolivian Police track down a murder suspect
It's a free service for home use. QED.
It works well, too, but can be a bit slow. Also like most VNCs there is no audio support but for remote troubleshooting it should be fine. Give it a go. Find it here
Watch out for the ones with pointy ears. They're Leonid Nimoys!
nobody cares.
Nobody except the millions of people like me who use Gnome. The current version is near-perfect and the new one seems to have lost all the good points and added nothing. OK, all the desktops on screen at once could be useful once in a while, but WTF! If it ain't broke (and it ain't), don't "fix" it.
It could just be that the Menfolk of Framingham fancy short fat women. Perhaps they're all short and fat as well.
So you're advocating a system where whatever you buy, it has to have the same item at it's heart. You want a new car, go round the showrooms and find whether you order a Ford, a Ferrari or a Dodge, it has to come with a 2 liter Toyota Deisel engine?
One of ubuntu's (and Linux in general) main obstacles is the lack of public awareness. You go to a computer store and everything on offer is pre-loaded with windoze...it's as if no other O/S exists. What Canonical really need to try to do (and I appreciate that this would not be without cost) is get the CD's in the stores so that punters buying a new computer will see it as a viable alternative to M$ products. Ideally, of course it would be nice if manufacturers could offer it pre-installed across their ranges as well. Also, as many people are hugely suspicious of anything 'free' and anything 'new', packaging it with a (sensibly priced) support service might be another way of 'selling' Linux to the masses.
Linux isn't ready for the first post.
But Windows is ready for the last post.
Never got mod points when you need 'em. Someone please mod this up as funny!
How is installing something that doesn't do what I need it to do sane?
Clearly it's not, but for (I'm guessing) 90% of computer users, ubuntu will do everything they want, quickly and well. It comes with an excellent browser (Firefox), a great email client (Evolution), OpenOffice for word processing and more, and Gimp is a more than half-decent graphics and photo suite. Also you can run a lot of 'Windoze' software under Wine. As far as I know the only things it won't do are some games (which doesn't bother me and millions of other computer users) and any video using .wmv, so you might occassionally come across some prOn you can't view, but again who cares...there's enough out there using embedded players to satisfy anyone, and VLC works fine on Linux and can play pretty much anything anyway!
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Full - Retail: $299.99
What! people actually pay MONEY for an operating system? Yes, and worse still they can only use it on one computer the way M$ say they can. Find sanity in an insane world.
...the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one...
if this is true, it's either scary or wonderful!
...evidence of water ice along with organic compounds...
Chilled beer, anyone?
Jedidiah (above) got it about right. It's already there so why not use it. It's a crappy old Compaq with a Celeron and barely any RAM and is slowwwww! , so it's not much good for anything else. It's also useful as I do a bit of HTML/CSS and it means I can easily check my work on "Windows" browsers, specifically IE6 and Chrome, as well as Safari (I have Opera and Firefox on the ubuntu box). Also it isn't actually On much anyway, I just turn it on when I need it (well, 5 minutes before I need it...it does run Windows!)
...there's certainly people who like to have a second pc for other purposes too. Most people who have Linux PC ... probably have a Windows PC too because you can't really do everything with Linux.
I kept my old windows box when I bought a new computer on which I run ubuntu, which does everything I want very well. The windows box now runs headless (VNC and samba) mostly as a back-up HDD, and as a driver for my old Lexmark printer, for which there are no Linux drivers.
Yes, but ubuntu is free open-source software and no-one in China knows what "Free" or "Open" mean.
You are a dumb-ass. Not to mention a bigot.
My comment was aimed at the consequences of the repressive politics of China, not it's people, so please don't think of me as a bigot. I am grateful for the freedoms and open-ness of our society, and I merely chose to express my view through irony.
I bet you can download ubuntu though. And burn it to a CD.
Yes, but ubuntu is free open-source software and no-one in China knows what "Free" or "Open" mean.
Putting Linux on it has pretty much killed the project.
No, not putting Windoze on it has made it, shall we say, unpopular in some quarters.
Software Freedom Day 2009
Great idea telling us today...plenty of time to get the local effort organised!
However, it has one major hurdle to overcome: it doesn't support Windows.
Fuck Windows. Seriously.
I've been unwillingly paying the Microsoft tax for TEN YEARS. All I ever do is wipe Windows and install Linux. If my new computer can't run Windows then... great!! Maybe I won't have to pay the tax.
On a serious note, why not get your computer built for you (or DIY if you can). I had mine built by a small local company (Intel core2 quad, 4Gig RAM and 250Gig hard drive so a decent spec) and it cost well under £300. It came 'empty' - no OS - so I could install Ubuntu with NO Windoze contamination. It works geat. It's never given me any trouble at all and it does everything I want, quickly and very well.
I understand one of the least interesting lots is a Corporate IT dept complete with a well preserved version of I.E.6
(Please feel free to mod down as 'Troll')
With the budget problems faced by NASA and the obvious enthusiasm for space exploration shown by other nations, surely it is time for more co-operation. It is becoming clear that an International Space Agency of some sort is needed although I'm not sure who is best placed to administer this (the UN is the only international body with enough stature to do it, but does not normally concern itself with 'scientific' matters). As things stand, national pride is seriously holding back mankind's ambitions in space, and ultimately all of mankind will lose out if we're not careful.