For those that are interested Ark is also out on early-access on SteamOS/Linuxflavorofchoice. Though there is no mention in the article. Not too surprising...
Call bias if you want, since this company is in the nuclear business, but the details regarding the overall process are much better. This issue is a regulatory one as changing the safety system from the original design basis is a big deal. In response to the above post regarding China taking over...leave your FUD at the door.
Any installation that requires additional firmware will need to have the firmware available during installation. See the Debian wiki http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for installation instructions. They even have a special netinst image that will pull the correct firmware.
As for LibreOffice, it is in the experimental archive and I would imagine will be in sid very soon. Of course it won't hit stable until 7.0 but most desktop users aren't going to wait that long. Especially if/when sid gets a 2.6.38 kernel with the new 200 line patch.
I recently purchased an AMD 3500+ system (parts and self-assembled) and used a daily snapshot of the installer a day or so before the release. The installation was a breeze, now I'm in the "how do I get all the applications I use installed and working" phase. I compiled a new kernel (the Debian way) and made a madwifi and ATI kernel module package last night and it seems to be working. OpenOffice is in the works, there are some packages built but not the most important one (the actual bin package). I am not a software programmer and really rely on these talented Debian maintainers for porting the packages over. Thank you for all your hard work and I look forward to having a complete 64bit OS.
KDE and Gnome reminds me too much of a windoz knock-off. They have their little "Start" menu and bottom task bar. G & K are for people that can't let windoz go....be a man, grow a pair, and go download WindowMaker. You can run all you Gnome and KDE apps and have the superior interface; not to mention the lighter memory usage.
From reading the article it looks like it is going to be awhile before you're going to see MS office on the shelves.
and if i remember correctly I didn't hear great things about Corel's little office package when it came out.
I've also been able to squeak by using StarOffice and will continue to (if i can) even if this project pans out.
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For those that are interested Ark is also out on early-access on SteamOS/Linuxflavorofchoice. Though there is no mention in the article. Not too surprising...
Call bias if you want, since this company is in the nuclear business, but the details regarding the overall process are much better. This issue is a regulatory one as changing the safety system from the original design basis is a big deal. In response to the above post regarding China taking over...leave your FUD at the door.
http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sc=2058654
Any installation that requires additional firmware will need to have the firmware available during installation. See the Debian wiki http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for installation instructions. They even have a special netinst image that will pull the correct firmware.
As for LibreOffice, it is in the experimental archive and I would imagine will be in sid very soon. Of course it won't hit stable until 7.0 but most desktop users aren't going to wait that long. Especially if/when sid gets a 2.6.38 kernel with the new 200 line patch.
I recently purchased an AMD 3500+ system (parts and self-assembled) and used a daily snapshot of the installer a day or so before the release. The installation was a breeze, now I'm in the "how do I get all the applications I use installed and working" phase. I compiled a new kernel (the Debian way) and made a madwifi and ATI kernel module package last night and it seems to be working. OpenOffice is in the works, there are some packages built but not the most important one (the actual bin package). I am not a software programmer and really rely on these talented Debian maintainers for porting the packages over. Thank you for all your hard work and I look forward to having a complete 64bit OS.
if they could figure out how the cookie crumbles; that would be something.
KDE and Gnome reminds me too much of a windoz knock-off. They have their little "Start" menu and bottom task bar. G & K are for people that can't let windoz go....be a man, grow a pair, and go download WindowMaker. You can run all you Gnome and KDE apps and have the superior interface; not to mention the lighter memory usage.
From reading the article it looks like it is going to be awhile before you're going to see MS office on the shelves. and if i remember correctly I didn't hear great things about Corel's little office package when it came out. I've also been able to squeak by using StarOffice and will continue to (if i can) even if this project pans out.