If you read down into the comments, though, you'll find fairly decent chaps (Flar in particular) are basically told to FOAD and that KDE is better off without them.
Recent moves by Asian governments to push adoption of open-source software will not change Microsoft's global single-price policy, according to a senior executive from the software giant.
Of course they caved in when Thailand started selling a million desktops with Linux.
Strangely enough, I set up a few friends on Ubuntu Feisty a while back ( this question was about one of them ) and they moved out of the country. I hadn't heard anything from them since September with regard to the laptops, so I assumed that they had installed Windows and moved on.
I got a message last week from one of them last week because she had accidentally deleted her window list and was confused. She'd been using the computer for months without any problems at all. She's not stupid, but she's no techie.
Anyway, that supports your "Set it up for them once, and they won't break it" assertion.
Linux identifies itself as Windows to the BIOS. The BIOS does more careful checks to determine that it's truly Linux and not Windows, then feeds it a different table with references to bad memory addresses.
I'm more in the camp that says some programmer copied an old BIOS and didn't change any of the Linux parts, but there's certainly no "standard one for non-Windows operating systems."
Integrating Anjuta with Git and Glade is a good first step that's supposed to happen this cycle.
Enabling compositing in Metacity while moving everyone to GStreamer-GL will take time.
Telepathy needs to become the communication layer for Gnome, something that's been "happening" for a couple of years now.
You may not like my ideas, but it's pretty obvious that Gnome isn't quite there yet. I like it. I use it exclusively. It's just not where it needs to be.
Ubuntu needs to work with Gnome to replicate the parts of OS X that make life easy for the developer:
A language as simple as Cocoa/XCode to develop for (Gnome has some in the pipeline)
A multimedia framework that compares to the Core stuff (GStreamer is close)
This is the sticking point: Fewer choices for the end user. OS X limits what can be done. This flies in the face of the Linux tradition, but it is the only way to make everything seamless for the user.
I use neither Ubuntu nor OS X these days, but that's the way I see it. Ubuntu can't replicate the top of the stack without replicating the middle of the stack first, and that means making everything on the desktop use the same technology, which it doesn't now.
I was trying to be specific, but I'll get more general. You can download and double-click install any.deb for a system which includes GDebi, which is most of the Debian derivatives these days.
If the application isn't set up with an installer for your OS, then it's going to be a PITA to install it, whether that OS is Ubuntu, Red Hat, OSX, or even WindowsXP. Just try installing Empathy on Windows. It's possible, but it's going to take some work.
The bottom line is that you work within the same construct that Linux users do. More software is packaged for your platform, so you don't think about it much.
The final kicker: Users of some Linux-based operating systems with Wine installed have the possibility of installing and running WindowsXP software, while the converse isn't true.
Except that, the times I've read TLHB, he didn't know what he was talking about and made silly, trivial mistakes which just make the whole blog into a giant troll.
For example, take a look at his Graphics Hating article where he claims NVidia re-writing large parts of X is a great thing, while in reality it's causing huge headaches for people upgrading to newer versions of X. His rant on distributed version control systems boils down to there being too many.
His upgrade Linux rant was full of strawmen, fallacies, and false dichotomies.
He's a troll... a good troll. He has plenty of people roped into reading his trolls and he's laughing his ass off behind the scenes.
This, however, is an IT forum, and it's a reasonable expectation that you have the ability to do that.
"Code it yourself" isn't actually heard very often on the general support parts of distribution forums.
You do realize that you can just download the Skype.deb for Ubuntu, double-click, and be done with it, right? There's not even any "Next, next, next..." process.
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I know that. In fact, when it 8.04.1 came out, Shuttleworth basically said "8.04 had too many problems to really be accepted by any large network."
See? That means that you should wait for SP1 on an Ubuntu release before you deploy, just like you do with MS operating systems.
It would be kind of like how Ubuntu 8.04 was the beta release, and people should have waited for 8.04.1.
;) Indeed.
If a site only works for one browser on one OS, then it's broken. It has nothing to do with finding tolls despicable.
That's because they call it "The Digg Effect" now. Meh.
If you read down into the comments, though, you'll find fairly decent chaps (Flar in particular) are basically told to FOAD and that KDE is better off without them.
Apparently, it's a trend to go against convention and Gnome's bump to 3.0 won't add any features at all.
You must be new here.
he says as I compare UIDs ....
Should I read what I have copywritten in order to make sure it's right? Probably not. Best just to write it and leave it at that. ;)
I guess so. _blinks in disbelief_
Nothing about wealth ... so we use
instead.
Microsoft has always charged less in developing nations with weak or fragile economies.
Uh ... no. Resoundingly no. Are you ten years old?
from Nov. 2003:
Recent moves by Asian governments to push adoption of open-source software will not change Microsoft's global single-price policy, according to a senior executive from the software giant.
Of course they caved in when Thailand started selling a million desktops with Linux.
Are you really that stupid?
Strangely enough, I set up a few friends on Ubuntu Feisty a while back ( this question was about one of them ) and they moved out of the country. I hadn't heard anything from them since September with regard to the laptops, so I assumed that they had installed Windows and moved on.
I got a message last week from one of them last week because she had accidentally deleted her window list and was confused. She'd been using the computer for months without any problems at all. She's not stupid, but she's no techie.
Anyway, that supports your "Set it up for them once, and they won't break it" assertion.
So you're saying the bad Linux tables are Microsoft's fault? For trying to be the voice of reason, you're making some interesting accusations. ;)
The letter mentioned above (PDF)
I guess you didn't RFTA ....
Linux identifies itself as Windows to the BIOS. The BIOS does more careful checks to determine that it's truly Linux and not Windows, then feeds it a different table with references to bad memory addresses.
I'm more in the camp that says some programmer copied an old BIOS and didn't change any of the Linux parts, but there's certainly no "standard one for non-Windows operating systems."
"Close" and "Done" are not the same thing.
Integrating Anjuta with Git and Glade is a good first step that's supposed to happen this cycle.
Enabling compositing in Metacity while moving everyone to GStreamer-GL will take time.
Telepathy needs to become the communication layer for Gnome, something that's been "happening" for a couple of years now.
You may not like my ideas, but it's pretty obvious that Gnome isn't quite there yet. I like it. I use it exclusively. It's just not where it needs to be.
I use neither Ubuntu nor OS X these days, but that's the way I see it. Ubuntu can't replicate the top of the stack without replicating the middle of the stack first, and that means making everything on the desktop use the same technology, which it doesn't now.
Me, I'm sticking with Debian.
Devede has a box for "Use optimizations for multi-core CPUs."
But would you pay a monthly fee for service?
I was trying to be specific, but I'll get more general. You can download and double-click install any .deb for a system which includes GDebi, which is most of the Debian derivatives these days.
If the application isn't set up with an installer for your OS, then it's going to be a PITA to install it, whether that OS is Ubuntu, Red Hat, OSX, or even WindowsXP. Just try installing Empathy on Windows. It's possible, but it's going to take some work.
The bottom line is that you work within the same construct that Linux users do. More software is packaged for your platform, so you don't think about it much.
The final kicker: Users of some Linux-based operating systems with Wine installed have the possibility of installing and running WindowsXP software, while the converse isn't true.
Except that, the times I've read TLHB, he didn't know what he was talking about and made silly, trivial mistakes which just make the whole blog into a giant troll.
... a good troll. He has plenty of people roped into reading his trolls and he's laughing his ass off behind the scenes.
For example, take a look at his Graphics Hating article where he claims NVidia re-writing large parts of X is a great thing, while in reality it's causing huge headaches for people upgrading to newer versions of X. His rant on distributed version control systems boils down to there being too many.
His upgrade Linux rant was full of strawmen, fallacies, and false dichotomies.
He's a troll
This, however, is an IT forum, and it's a reasonable expectation that you have the ability to do that. "Code it yourself" isn't actually heard very often on the general support parts of distribution forums.
You do realize that you can just download the Skype .deb for Ubuntu, double-click, and be done with it, right? There's not even any "Next, next, next ..." process.