which also reminds me of my almost philosophical gripe w/ it. At the same time they were talking about swtiching to Wayland and one of the key advantages they stated was that by not being server/distributed based they could get it to run faster. My understanding of pulseaudio is that is/was one of it's main advantages.
This is what Canonical does, though. They like to be experimental and "break the mold," so to speak, and they're no stranger to incorporating strange and new things (Unity), in some cases before they're ready (Pulse Audio and KDE4). And they'll drop projects/libraries/DE's if they like something else better.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them throw Unity out the window on a whim if they found something they liked better. But curmudgeons like me can still slap XFCE on a LTS release and just stay outside of the storm.
Thanks for reminding me of when they switched to pulse audio. It and not unity was why I left ubuntu. They broke a lot of packages w/ the switch, even 2-3 years later when I tried it again some were still broken. That and they killed my alarm clock.
An old Word Perfect Version (I belive 2000 though I might be wrong there) is installed on alot of the computers at work, and is much better to work with than Word 2007.
After 9 weeks of MS Server training then 9 weeks of Redhat training at my college I was like hey, let's check out Linux. So I downloaded Ubuntu and now I can say with 100% certainty, don't use Ubuntu! There is no root (aka Admin) login by default and no GUI ability to run things as root. That means if you want to do something administratory, you have to get out some very long, very annoying text commands. It's unbearable. I gave up after trying to install Java.
I have heard from friends that Linux Mint is a lot friendlier but haven't tried it.
sudo for command admin, gksudo for gui admin. USE THEM
The Luke/Jawas scene makes sense that their wouldn't need to be a translator. The Lars family dealt often with the Jawas who were one of 2 native species of tatoone. The fact that they understood each others languages, even if they couldn't speak them makes sense.
For regular wordproccessing and internet you don't need powerful machines. It makes sense to not upgrade if it works for those operations. All the computers at my work have floppies. (Even the CAD computer)
i've switched to gentoo after ubuntu kept pissing me off. First pulseaudio killing some of my programs and scripts, then grub2 being a pain in the ass and not recongnizing my gentoo partition (at the time it existed to have something to play around w/) and then came unity.
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which also reminds me of my almost philosophical gripe w/ it. At the same time they were talking about swtiching to Wayland and one of the key advantages they stated was that by not being server/distributed based they could get it to run faster. My understanding of pulseaudio is that is/was one of it's main advantages.
This is what Canonical does, though. They like to be experimental and "break the mold," so to speak, and they're no stranger to incorporating strange and new things (Unity), in some cases before they're ready (Pulse Audio and KDE4). And they'll drop projects/libraries/DE's if they like something else better.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them throw Unity out the window on a whim if they found something they liked better. But curmudgeons like me can still slap XFCE on a LTS release and just stay outside of the storm.
Thanks for reminding me of when they switched to pulse audio. It and not unity was why I left ubuntu. They broke a lot of packages w/ the switch, even 2-3 years later when I tried it again some were still broken. That and they killed my alarm clock.
An old Word Perfect Version (I belive 2000 though I might be wrong there) is installed on alot of the computers at work, and is much better to work with than Word 2007.
Would a society where to wield political power one must have done actual service for ones country so bad?
The Man who Sold the Moon, and Requim both short stories by Heinlein make me cry.
After 9 weeks of MS Server training then 9 weeks of Redhat training at my college I was like hey, let's check out Linux. So I downloaded Ubuntu and now I can say with 100% certainty, don't use Ubuntu! There is no root (aka Admin) login by default and no GUI ability to run things as root. That means if you want to do something administratory, you have to get out some very long, very annoying text commands. It's unbearable. I gave up after trying to install Java. I have heard from friends that Linux Mint is a lot friendlier but haven't tried it.
sudo for command admin, gksudo for gui admin. USE THEM
The Luke/Jawas scene makes sense that their wouldn't need to be a translator. The Lars family dealt often with the Jawas who were one of 2 native species of tatoone. The fact that they understood each others languages, even if they couldn't speak them makes sense.
For regular wordproccessing and internet you don't need powerful machines. It makes sense to not upgrade if it works for those operations. All the computers at my work have floppies. (Even the CAD computer)
i've switched to gentoo after ubuntu kept pissing me off. First pulseaudio killing some of my programs and scripts, then grub2 being a pain in the ass and not recongnizing my gentoo partition (at the time it existed to have something to play around w/) and then came unity.