I hope that by formatting, and reinstalling you mean, restoring a disk image? Ghost is the best I've found, not free (beer or speech), but saves you _a lot_ of time. If anyone knows a free equivalent let me know. Oh, and as someone else probably have mentioned, Ad-Aware and Spybot might save you the trouble...
I haven't tried it yet, but if the installation is this easy, perhaps I have finally found a usable alternative for those of my friends who are technical enough to install windows (this should be just as easy), but are getting tired of doing it again and again...
All other problems linux posed to slightly-technical-but-not-geek, people have been solved with OpenOffice, kde/gnome, mozilla, gaim etc.
The only question is, have they manage to settle for ONE browser, ONE mail client and so forth? Joe User really doesn't need both konqueror and mozilla (names picked at random).
Anyway, kudos to Mandrake for taking the Linux desktop in the newbie-friendly direction
Take for instance my school. We have, for trials, migrated 2 workstations over from NT4 to WinXP in our CISCO lab. It comes with.NET Messenger (MSN Messenger), we cannot work out any way to remove this, and every day, we find some shmuck trying to use it. Why is it that we are unable to remove it? Is it a crucial part of the NT5 kernel??? Would XP cease to work without it??? NO! It is just bloat and pointless waste of space, and time.
Take a look at Tweakxp, they have a lot of good advice on xp-installations, among them how to remove MSN Messenger.
While I don't really think sourceforge will be going down soon, savanna is a good alternative. It is based on sourceforge source code, (it was GPL after all), and should have most facilities sourceforge users are used to. It is also garantueed to stay Free.
The average throughput drops. In other words, it's not something you use on a server, but it's very useful for embedded devices, where latency is important. It's also very nice for desktops, been using it for ~2 months now. YMMV, but my desktop is a _lot_ smoother.
2.4.9 was the last official kernel from linus which used Rik van Riel's VM which was introduced in 2.3.x. (The switch to Andrea Arcangelis VM occured in 2.4.9->2.4.10) Alan Cox and Red Hat used this in their kernels, and the Red Hat kernel was heavily patched with the patches from Rik van Riel which Linus "reportedly" dropped (among other things). The Red Hat kernel is also _very_ well tested, as all their kernels are. You might not like their distro, but their kernels are usually among the more stable.
In a very real sense they took GPLed software and closed it off. For the life of me I don't know why they aren't being sued by the FSF.
Probably because VA Software has the copyright to Sourceforge, and are thus in their full right to relicense their software. That the license is GPL does not change that. However, there is nothing stopping you/someone from taking the sourceforge-code that is already GPL'ed, and reusing that. That is basically what the GNU people have done with savannah.gnu.org (which will probably come in handy when VA Software closes down...)
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I hope that by formatting, and reinstalling you mean, restoring a disk image? Ghost is the best I've found, not free (beer or speech), but saves you _a lot_ of time. If anyone knows a free equivalent let me know. Oh, and as someone else probably have mentioned, Ad-Aware and Spybot might save you the trouble...
Or if you don't have pinfo, but happen to use KDE, "info:/program" in konqueror gives you a nice viewer as well. (works with "man:/..." as well).
I haven't tried it yet, but if the installation is this easy, perhaps I have finally found a usable alternative for those of my friends who are technical enough to install windows (this should be just as easy), but are getting tired of doing it again and again...
All other problems linux posed to slightly-technical-but-not-geek, people have been solved with OpenOffice, kde/gnome, mozilla, gaim etc.
The only question is, have they manage to settle for ONE browser, ONE mail client and so forth? Joe User really doesn't need both konqueror and mozilla (names picked at random).
Anyway, kudos to Mandrake for taking the Linux desktop in the newbie-friendly direction
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Take for instance my school. We have, for trials, migrated 2 workstations over from NT4 to WinXP in our CISCO lab. It comes with .NET Messenger (MSN Messenger), we cannot work out any way to remove this, and every day, we find some shmuck trying to use it. Why is it that we are unable to remove it? Is it a crucial part of the NT5 kernel??? Would XP cease to work without it??? NO! It is just bloat and pointless waste of space, and time.
Take a look at Tweakxp, they have a lot of good advice on xp-installations, among them how to remove MSN Messenger.
While I don't really think sourceforge will be going down soon, savanna is a good alternative. It is based on sourceforge source code, (it was GPL after all), and should have most facilities sourceforge users are used to. It is also garantueed to stay Free.
The average throughput drops. In other words, it's not something you use on a server, but it's very useful for embedded devices, where latency is important. It's also very nice for desktops, been using it for ~2 months now. YMMV, but my desktop is a _lot_ smoother.
2.4.9 was the last official kernel from linus which used Rik van Riel's VM which was introduced in 2.3.x. (The switch to Andrea Arcangelis VM occured in 2.4.9->2.4.10) Alan Cox and Red Hat used this in their kernels, and the Red Hat kernel was heavily patched with the patches from Rik van Riel which Linus "reportedly" dropped (among other things). The Red Hat kernel is also _very_ well tested, as all their kernels are. You might not like their distro, but their kernels are usually among the more stable.
In a very real sense they took GPLed software and closed it off. For the life of me I don't know why they aren't being sued by the FSF.
Probably because VA Software has the copyright to Sourceforge, and are thus in their full right to relicense their software. That the license is GPL does not change that. However, there is nothing stopping you/someone from taking the sourceforge-code that is already GPL'ed, and reusing that. That is basically what the GNU people have done with savannah.gnu.org (which will probably come in handy when VA Software closes down...)
Considering that it is a rpm-based distribtion, I rather doubt that it it based on Debian....
Just for the record, the correct link is http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020107/index .html