Skolelinux is not a distro as most people think of distros. Skolelinux is a full featured thin client solution originally created for schools. Sure, you could use any distro for this - but Skolelinux makes it easier. For schools to take on Linux they need to be convinced. Low price, easy maintaining and high stability are three important arguments. Skolelinux makes this possible.
Well, this project has been going on for around three years. It's now being used by several schools here in Norway, and I can't imagine it'll go away too soon.
Sure, there are games for linux.
The point, however (as far as I can imagine), is that there's a lot more games available for Windows. There's no way you can argue with that.
Besides, of all the games available for linux there's only one or two I'd ever consider bying. For Windows and Mac there's a lot more.
You can Troll as much as you want, Linux is still not good enough supported when it comes to games.
Actually, MS DOS is very much alive. It's still used alot on install disks and similar, since it's small and not too powerfull (which often means bigger size).
Here at work we use a modyfied win98 boot disk to install a DOS ICA client, and I must say - it works like a charm.
MS works at one desktop interface at a time. KDE and Gnome works at two different desktops, mostly seperated. That is the big deal. If Gnome and KDE would work together they'd be able to get much more work done!
No wonder Microsoft is first (not thinking about OS X here!:-) when it comes to new GUI-features (or mis-features as I prefer to call them)
(I'm not against having two big Desktop User Interfaces - user choice is a good thing)
i guess your bookmarks still are present, only opera7 uses a different bookmark-file then opera6 (~/.opera/opera6.adr and opera7.adr). you might find them there in your old file..
wow, again we have two 'first post's within the first three post! is that all you people think about?!
i mean, ok.. if you've got something to say, OK! first post is nice! if you've only got gibberish to say you wont find a single person here not thinking "ahhhhr..."!
i was mainly not talking about webdesigners, but home users.. as i said, most people don't care:-) they know nothing about IE being good at this, and bad at that.. and mozilla being this and that. they have a browser. it works with most of the web. they are happy..
how can anyone compete with that, and win? (well, yeah. possible, and has been done before.. but still)
the problem is that most people don't really care, and don't have any idea what so ever what w3c is, and why their rules should be followed..
no browser will take IE's place untill that happens (or untill microsoft corp. drops dead)
they'd have thought about this at work before upgrading 1300 machines from win 3.11 to win2k..
most users here don't even know what OS they use, or what a start-menu is.. It'd be just the same to install linux and give them openoffice. they'd only see a text-writer and a print-button.. and it'd be a whole lot cheaper...
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Skolelinux is not a distro as most people think of distros. Skolelinux is a full featured thin client solution originally created for schools. Sure, you could use any distro for this - but Skolelinux makes it easier. For schools to take on Linux they need to be convinced. Low price, easy maintaining and high stability are three important arguments. Skolelinux makes this possible.
Well, this project has been going on for around three years. It's now being used by several schools here in Norway, and I can't imagine it'll go away too soon.
That guy speaks norwegian, and the name really is "SkoleLinux". :-)
Sure, there are games for linux.
The point, however (as far as I can imagine), is that there's a lot more games available for Windows. There's no way you can argue with that.
Besides, of all the games available for linux there's only one or two I'd ever consider bying. For Windows and Mac there's a lot more.
You can Troll as much as you want, Linux is still not good enough supported when it comes to games.
Actually, MS DOS is very much alive. It's still used alot on install disks and similar, since it's small and not too powerfull (which often means bigger size).
Here at work we use a modyfied win98 boot disk to install a DOS ICA client, and I must say - it works like a charm.
If I had those billions i wouldn't have to do anything -else- than read slashdot at -1!
MS works at one desktop interface at a time. KDE and Gnome works at two different desktops, mostly seperated. That is the big deal. If Gnome and KDE would work together they'd be able to get much more work done!
:-) when it comes to new GUI-features (or mis-features as I prefer to call them)
No wonder Microsoft is first (not thinking about OS X here!
(I'm not against having two big Desktop User Interfaces - user choice is a good thing)
i guess your bookmarks still are present, only opera7 uses a different bookmark-file then opera6 (~/.opera/opera6.adr and opera7.adr). you might find them there in your old file..
That sounds more like a windows-networking-thing. In linux i guess it'll be a configure file with at least 100 lines, exluding the comments.
wow, again we have two 'first post's within the first three post! is that all you people think about?!
.. if you've got something to say, OK! first post is nice! if you've only got gibberish to say you wont find a single person here not thinking "ahhhhr..."!
i mean, ok
guess they'd be happy if it was a text-mode phone with command line, or what?
:)
i'd sure buy it!
how long 'till bush declares mars as their territory, and threatens whoever tries to colonize it with nuclear wars and no more friendship?
i was mainly not talking about webdesigners, but home users.. as i said, most people don't care :-) they know nothing about IE being good at this, and bad at that.. and mozilla being this and that. they have a browser. it works with most of the web. they are happy..
how can anyone compete with that, and win? (well, yeah. possible, and has been done before .. but still)
the problem is that most people don't really care, and don't have any idea what so ever what w3c is, and why their rules should be followed.. no browser will take IE's place untill that happens (or untill microsoft corp. drops dead)
That's where Opera comes in! :-)
they'd have thought about this at work before upgrading 1300 machines from win 3.11 to win2k.. most users here don't even know what OS they use, or what a start-menu is.. It'd be just the same to install linux and give them openoffice. they'd only see a text-writer and a print-button.. and it'd be a whole lot cheaper...
another revolution! [...] again :-)