That's not necessarily an advantage. It adds cost, it's hard to upgrade, it breaks easily (mine broke within a few months) and it adds weight and size.
(No mention of battery issues since you don't *have* to use it.)
Why? Why do that just to mock RMS? He started a project to do a full free operating system almost 20 years ago which I'm very happy for. Give the guy a break. He may be a hero but he's (in his own words) no buddha, most of us wants credit once in a while.
While I can understand why RMS wants to bring attention to the GNU project and it's goals (free software), I can't help but feel suspicious of the "linux fanboys" that insist, time and time again, even totally out of the blue and uncalled for, to call it the system just Linux without those three letters.
For my considerations, I was most interested in 3 things. 1) Size/weight. 2) Battery life. This first two criteria generally favored 1 spindle machines with an external cdrom. I never need a cdrom on the road, and if I did then you'd have to consider carrying all those cds with you where you go. I just use ethernet and pull stuff off a remote machine. 3) Keyboard quality.
I'm also interested in those three things. Try looking into getting a PDA of some sort that'll accept a real keyboard (like a Happy Hacking one, those look beautiful, though I don't know how they feel).
On my iBook there was an unnecessary extra enter key very close to the touchpad that can be remapped to act as the right mouse button, and I use F11 for the middle button. The middle button is slightly annoying to use but the right button works absolutely fine.
There are other reasons why I don't recommend the iBook but the mouse button is not an issue at all.
If you want to live on the cheap, you'd be better of as a vegan or a lactovegetarian, especially if you go the DIY-route with soy beans and chick peas. "Fake" dairy products are expensive as hell but if you're eating that, what are you doing with veganism? It's still less expensive than meat, at least where I live.
My mom occasionally gets that stuff so she can cook traditional food so I've tried it, but I often don't buy it for myself since it's so expensive.
Not farthest apart on the actual keyboard, but on the levers inside the typewriter. That was the supposed goal of Sholes when he designed Qwerty, not that he did a very good job even doing that.
Video and audio codec? Is there anyone can't play MP3 or Ogg under Windows? Is there anyone can't play DivX under Windows?
Microsoft has never done an Ogg Vorbis codec nor a DivX codec. It's often a big hassle when someone asks me how to play Oggs or DivX:s with default Windows since I haven't used Win for a few years.
Right. It's a lot more demanding on the server, though, and I don't know of a way to provide sftp-access without providing shell access - which opens up a whole can of worms.
When I got mine a couple of years ago (I was in Sweden at the time) I got a little keychain along with it, and I could use that to check how much was on it.
Personally I think that we'd gotten a usable DE a lot earlier if the programmers, graphic artists, translaters, documenters and so on working on the two teams had collaborated instead of competed.
There is enough competition from the non-free world already, with Apple joining the fray and Windows having what, 70-90% of the desktop market?
It's not surprising that the two desktops have different styles - different people gravitate towards Gnome than gravitate towards KDE and that difference is escalating.
I'd rather see two "releases" - different choice of defaults apps, colours, theme, but using the same toolkit, libraries, apps and HIG - than the current situation.
I guess I just have this tic against duplication of effort...
To be completely honest, I agree with the notion that the Gnome file selector is the best ever.
I was annoyed to death with KDE's and OOo's windows-alike clickfest.
I adore the keyboardability (great if you have a thousand files - just type the first few letters), the tab completion, and the split pane in the gnome file selector. (I think it's great that it separates files from folders - I have the files at a glance.)
It's true that many people complain about this so maybe it does have to be improved even further. But I really hope they don't accidentally disimprove it while they're at it.
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No one's mentioned Java. Just because Java is evil doesn't mean that Flash can't be also evil.
I'd be surprised if there was hardware that only works with one distro. No promises, but I think it'll work.
(an obvious exception is stuff like totally different architectures, I don't expect to boot up official slackware on MIPS.)
This lindows book seems to have 802.11 as well, though. And it's a lighter, one-spindle machine as opposed to the iBook.
(I'm not saying it doesn't suck - it still might.)
That's not necessarily an advantage. It adds cost, it's hard to upgrade, it breaks easily (mine broke within a few months) and it adds weight and size.
(No mention of battery issues since you don't *have* to use it.)
I saw a blue error screen on my friends XP-running machine a few weeks ago.
Most of that stuff can be removed at compile time.
I'm also interested in those three things. Try looking into getting a PDA of some sort that'll accept a real keyboard (like a Happy Hacking one, those look beautiful, though I don't know how they feel).
I just found a program called rssh that seems to be what I'm looking for as a replacement shell for sftp-users. I'll look into that.
sftp and ftps aren't the same thing, though.
On my iBook there was an unnecessary extra enter key very close to the touchpad that can be remapped to act as the right mouse button, and I use F11 for the middle button. The middle button is slightly annoying to use but the right button works absolutely fine.
There are other reasons why I don't recommend the iBook but the mouse button is not an issue at all.
If you want to live on the cheap, you'd be better of as a vegan or a lactovegetarian, especially if you go the DIY-route with soy beans and chick peas. "Fake" dairy products are expensive as hell but if you're eating that, what are you doing with veganism? It's still less expensive than meat, at least where I live.
My mom occasionally gets that stuff so she can cook traditional food so I've tried it, but I often don't buy it for myself since it's so expensive.
Not farthest apart on the actual keyboard, but on the levers inside the typewriter. That was the supposed goal of Sholes when he designed Qwerty, not that he did a very good job even doing that.
Microsoft has never done an Ogg Vorbis codec nor a DivX codec. It's often a big hassle when someone asks me how to play Oggs or DivX:s with default Windows since I haven't used Win for a few years.
Right. It's a lot more demanding on the server, though, and I don't know of a way to provide sftp-access without providing shell access - which opens up a whole can of worms.
When I got mine a couple of years ago (I was in Sweden at the time) I got a little keychain along with it, and I could use that to check how much was on it.
Stores pay a margin to this system as well, that's why many stores have been reluctant to introduce it.
eh... I pushed one of the buttons and nothing happened...
Linux people might stand to lose from competition from these leeches that refuse to share their code.
I don't have an "F12" on my keyboard, not anywhere near the home row anyway.
Ain't this the sweetest file selector ever?
/.)
I hope they do go with this one!
(As usual I reply to myself... sheesh, I need more friends that read
Personally I think that we'd gotten a usable DE a lot earlier if the programmers, graphic artists, translaters, documenters and so on working on the two teams had collaborated instead of competed.
There is enough competition from the non-free world already, with Apple joining the fray and Windows having what, 70-90% of the desktop market?
It's not surprising that the two desktops have different styles - different people gravitate towards Gnome than gravitate towards KDE and that difference is escalating.
I'd rather see two "releases" - different choice of defaults apps, colours, theme, but using the same toolkit, libraries, apps and HIG - than the current situation.
I guess I just have this tic against duplication of effort...
To be completely honest, I agree with the notion that the Gnome file selector is the best ever.
I was annoyed to death with KDE's and OOo's windows-alike clickfest.
I adore the keyboardability (great if you have a thousand files - just type the first few letters), the tab completion, and the split pane in the gnome file selector. (I think it's great that it separates files from folders - I have the files at a glance.)
It's true that many people complain about this so maybe it does have to be improved even further. But I really hope they don't accidentally disimprove it while they're at it.
From what I hear he uses Emacs.