I've been running Chromium from the OpenSuSE build service for a couple weeks and have been very pleased. No bugs I've seen, but I haven't done any performance testing.
As a linux user of 8 years, I think desktop distributions have come a long way in that time period, and I don't find them any more or less difficult to get working than a Windows OS.
Definitely. Last week I upgraded the hard drive in an Inspiron 9300, and decided to clean reinstalls of both XP Pro and OpenSuse 10.2. Opensuse picked up everything, wi-fi cards, front-side media buttons, sd-card slot, ATI drivers, not to mention most of the core software I'd use. I had to plug in an extra repository to get DVD playback. Maybe an hour tops. Two cds, a half dozen reboots, and a couple hours later I have maybe the Windows OS installed. VLC gave me DVD playback, but I don't think I could recreate the Dell factory install if I wanted to.
You're right, lots of boneheads can do that; the problem is that installing Windows takes a lot more than what you have described. Windows doesn't come with a lot of the drivers that you need, so getting the printer, video, network, etc etc to work requires rounding that stuff up and installing it all. Installing Linux is not easy, but neither is installing Windows.
Exactly. Based on the hardware she used, good look taking nothing but an XP Pro disk and magically getting the NVidia drivers and playing DVDs without as much effort.
My understanding is the 1st 3 are the geographic area from whence applied for the card.Yes. I was born in Pennsylvania, but my card was issued in Illinois.
Can someone point me towards the developed specifications for XP, etc?
I'm looking for the guidelines as to what should be put in the user profile vs program files, proper registry format, etc. I'd like to print out a foot thick copy and smack people with it whenever they bring in software that requires Administrator access to run.
"So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"
It's been a couple of years, but I used to run the computer lab at a law library. WP/Word use was pretty even, but I think people would throw a fit if they tried to get rid of WordPerfect.
Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw were both deploying web interfaces, and only training new users on them, rather than the desktop client software. At the time (Fall 2000) they worked find on Netscape 4.x.
Speeding on the roads causes lots of accidents. And more importantly (by this guy's logic) uses more gas. If we started executing people for speeding, imaging how much money "we" could save.
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I've been running Chromium from the OpenSuSE build service for a couple weeks and have been very pleased. No bugs I've seen, but I haven't done any performance testing.
Hope he wasn't planning on working weekends or past 7 PM.
What's your recommendation for network file system in a linux-only shop?
Sacrifice wi-fi? Isn't it already missing an ethernet port? Nice way to make it worthless in an office, or even a home LAN for that matter.
That statistic only means that there are as many Leopard upgraders as there are people stupid enough to *pay* to upgrade an existing machine to Vista.
I'd be curious to see sales numbers for any boxed OS.
As a linux user of 8 years, I think desktop distributions have come a long way in that time period, and I don't find them any more or less difficult to get working than a Windows OS.
Definitely. Last week I upgraded the hard drive in an Inspiron 9300, and decided to clean reinstalls of both XP Pro and OpenSuse 10.2. Opensuse picked up everything, wi-fi cards, front-side media buttons, sd-card slot, ATI drivers, not to mention most of the core software I'd use. I had to plug in an extra repository to get DVD playback. Maybe an hour tops. Two cds, a half dozen reboots, and a couple hours later I have maybe the Windows OS installed. VLC gave me DVD playback, but I don't think I could recreate the Dell factory install if I wanted to.
You're right, lots of boneheads can do that; the problem is that installing Windows takes a lot more than what you have described. Windows doesn't come with a lot of the drivers that you need, so getting the printer, video, network, etc etc to work requires rounding that stuff up and installing it all. Installing Linux is not easy, but neither is installing Windows.
Exactly. Based on the hardware she used, good look taking nothing but an XP Pro disk and magically getting the NVidia drivers and playing DVDs without as much effort.
My understanding is the 1st 3 are the geographic area from whence applied for the card. Yes. I was born in Pennsylvania, but my card was issued in Illinois.
He's talking about Symantec Antivirus 10.X. Nice suck-up for ~ 25MB of RAM for the real-time scan.
The problem we've run into (with implementing that sort of solution) is supporting synching to the myriad of PDA devices our employees use.
Thanks for your completely unproductive sarcasm.
Any recommendations for an RSS plug-in/add-on for Outlook?
What about system requirements:
One of the following:
* SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (IR3 required)
* SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8
* RH Linux 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, or RH Adv Server 2.1
Can this be run on regular Suse 9.X? Anyone tried?
Yes, you need to read the book. Bale does a good job, but overall the film is a pale reflection of the book. The book is incredible.
I own 9.2. Do I need that installed on a machine before I upgrade to 9.3? Anyone know?
Can someone point me towards the developed specifications for XP, etc?
I'm looking for the guidelines as to what should be put in the user profile vs program files, proper registry format, etc. I'd like to print out a foot thick copy and smack people with it whenever they bring in software that requires Administrator access to run.
Outlook 98 can't do read receipts! What's up with that?
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Yes, it possible, stripped down with a Celeron. But if you want a Pentium model it's just as cheap to get it with XP Home and reformat.
Problem is those "working stiffs" in accounting may have accounting software that isn't written for linux.
Mdaemon Groupware does. Not free, but relatively cheap.
When they were real rivals, you couldn't cheat on Netware user licenses, but you could on NT.
Wookies don't come from Endor.
It's been a couple of years, but I used to run the computer lab at a law library. WP/Word use was pretty even, but I think people would throw a fit if they tried to get rid of WordPerfect.
Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw were both deploying web interfaces, and only training new users on them, rather than the desktop client software. At the time (Fall 2000) they worked find on Netscape 4.x.
Speeding on the roads causes lots of accidents. And more importantly (by this guy's logic) uses more gas. If we started executing people for speeding, imaging how much money "we" could save.