Ok I hear that mandrake is just for newbies all the time and i once felt that way.
I am a somewhat experianced linux user, I have been using it for some time as my desktop of choice (at home and at work), I have tought linux and solaris usage/admin at a technical college, and im a developer who perfers to stick with an open source platform. I have used many distro's and up until mandrake 9.0 was a redhat user.
I switched to mandrake for a couple reasons.
1) more comunity oriented 2) did not cowtow to interests such as china / the enterprise desktop world (ala redhats new desktop) 3) things just work... with little effort, and although we all like to full around... on a desktop which you depend on... this is nice.
This article doesnt speak up for the fact that punk labels in alot of ways help sustain united durring the lean times.
I have pressed 3 records through united myself. While on tour, I even stoped by the factory and asked to see records being made (which is neat by the way). On my impromptu tour of united, I saw 3 7" records being pressed, all of them were indie/punk bands of some kind.
this release made me switch to mandrake
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im a long time RH user, but this release made me change to mandrake 9.0 . One of the main reasons I switched from windows to linux was for the concepts of freedom and community responcibility, both of these things in my mind are starting to disapear in red hat,
I recently started using a linux desktop in the workplace, and have found little situations where I am in need of a windows box. Keep in mind I am a developer and not an average office user, but I do have to share files w/ clients and co-workers all using windows pc's and our main file server is a windows pc
here is a list of problems and software solutions
MS Office = open office opens and saves files no problem, furthermore most distros comes w/ ps2pdf if you need to share a file globally
MS Mounted Network Drives = autofs and samba, I have diretories with in my home directory mounted to our win2k server no problem, Am also using a win2k shared printer
browser = mozilla / konqueror
EMail = kmail / evolution
And when I need to see something in a windows world I can vnc to one of my coworkers computers or use terminal server w/ rdesktop.
In my situation I can do everything I need to, which as you can see above is what most office users do. My boss/owner of the company also saw a big bonus in no licensing costs/fears.
We bought the computer preinstalled w/ linux and all the bells and whistles and had to do very little to get it up on our network(plugged it in). http://www.computervanguard.com built and configured it for us.
I disagree I tought at a technical college linux Admin/usage, along with other courses. I found the night studenst much mroe willing with linux, because they had desire, and were a bit more open minded. The day students I had liked NT and novel... because they knew it. One of my best Linux students was older and got a job from the course, In fact a Solaris Admin course I taught didnt have a sole under 35 in the class.
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although a surface layer , if your talking copywrite law... sure it seems silly
but from a fredom issue it is 100% in line w/ complaining about the RIAA
The RIAA and SCO are trying to control and kill freedom of knowledge.
knowledge is freedom and should stay free
Ok I hear that mandrake is just for newbies all the time and i once felt that way.
... this is nice.
I am a somewhat experianced linux user, I have been using it for some time as my desktop of choice (at home and at work), I have tought linux and solaris usage/admin at a technical college, and im a developer who perfers to stick with an open source platform. I have used many distro's and up until mandrake 9.0 was a redhat user.
I switched to mandrake for a couple reasons.
1) more comunity oriented
2) did not cowtow to interests such as china / the enterprise desktop world (ala redhats new desktop)
3) things just work... with little effort, and although we all like to full around... on a desktop which you depend on
ok flame me now
This article doesnt speak up for the fact that punk labels in alot of ways help sustain united durring the lean times. I have pressed 3 records through united myself. While on tour, I even stoped by the factory and asked to see records being made (which is neat by the way). On my impromptu tour of united, I saw 3 7" records being pressed, all of them were indie/punk bands of some kind.
im a long time RH user, but this release made me change to mandrake 9.0 . One of the main reasons I switched from windows to linux was for the concepts of freedom and community responcibility, both of these things in my mind are starting to disapear in red hat,
I recently started using a linux desktop in the workplace, and have found little situations where I am in need of a windows box. Keep in mind I am a developer and not an average office user, but I do have to share files w/ clients and co-workers all using windows pc's and our main file server is a windows pc here is a list of problems and software solutions MS Office = open office opens and saves files no problem, furthermore most distros comes w/ ps2pdf if you need to share a file globally MS Mounted Network Drives = autofs and samba, I have diretories with in my home directory mounted to our win2k server no problem, Am also using a win2k shared printer browser = mozilla / konqueror EMail = kmail / evolution And when I need to see something in a windows world I can vnc to one of my coworkers computers or use terminal server w/ rdesktop. In my situation I can do everything I need to, which as you can see above is what most office users do. My boss/owner of the company also saw a big bonus in no licensing costs/fears. We bought the computer preinstalled w/ linux and all the bells and whistles and had to do very little to get it up on our network(plugged it in). http://www.computervanguard.com built and configured it for us.
my brother... who shall remain nameless who works
for the beast...
was shown this on his interview where they told him
the code name was stinger....
because: what do stringer missles do? kill pilots...
not to supprising.
I disagree I tought at a technical college linux Admin/usage, along with other courses. I found the night studenst much mroe willing with linux, because they had desire, and were a bit more open minded. The day students I had liked NT and novel... because they knew it. One of my best Linux students was older and got a job from the course, In fact a Solaris Admin course I taught didnt have a sole under 35 in the class.
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