I am fully aware of the fact that certain Linux distros like Red Hat and Mandrake are getting as easy to install as XP, however....
Normal users can't even install XP most of the time.
Try to explain to me why an ordinary user, who requires technical support in the first place, decides to forgo his or her preinstalled XP or something and go to the bother of putting Linux on their machine at all...?? Where is the advantage? The incentive?
In may experience, even as a sysadmin in the computing department of a uni, 90% of users couldn't even install XP themselves, never mind linux, whether its getting easier to install or not.
Sorry, I don't buy the idea that there are armies of secret linux users installing linux on their PCs at work behind their sysadmin's back. I just can't see it...
It was a struggle getting the rpms from the mirror servers today, but what do you expect its just released today. My workstation in the office was a struggle but I did manage to get XD2 fairly easily from my home machine. First impressions are that its very slick and clean, looks very good and feels very good. I will have to give it a go in place of KDE for a while, at least for my Red Hat Installation. Downloading was the only problem, no dependancy problems or anything, the installer seems to pull in everything that it needed. Its a pain though having to rename all of the "E-Mail" menu icons back to "Ximian Evolution" etc, but hey for a normal user it might be nice. Linux could take off on the desktop I think with combinations like Red Hat 9 and XD2 on the go together. If only they could unite their efforts a lot more, maybe we would have a desktop that non-geek mortals are ready to use.
It was a struggle getting the rpms from the mirror servers today, but what do you expect its just released today. My workstation in the office was a struggle but I did manage to get XD2 fairly easily from my home machine.
First impressions are that its very slick and clean, looks very good and feels very good. I will have to give it a go in place of KDE for a while, at least for my Red Hat Installation.
Downloading was the only problem, no dependancy problems or anything, the installer seems to pull in everything that it needed.
Its a pain though having to rename all of the "E-Mail" menu icons back to "Ximian Evolution" etc, but hey for a normal user it might be nice.
Linux could take off on the desktop I think with combinations like Red Hat 9 and XD2 on the go together. If only they could unite their efforts a lot more, maybe we would have a desktop that non-geek mortals are ready to use.
Oh man, I am getting so sick of this crap! So its OK to attack other people's networks maliciously if you are a rich and capitalistically greedy record company, but not OK if you are some kid hacking in your parent's garage?
What the RIAA and its little friends try to do gets more and more ridiculous every time! What's next?
1) Hard drives that autodestruct when copyrighted mp3s are written to them.
2) P2P network company staff allowed to be legally beaten up, so long as its by an RIAA employee.
3) CDs created with hidden data tracks on them containing software that reports the user when illegal mp3s are written on them?
When are these people going to realise that they have already gone to far and that anyway it doesn't matter how far they do because P2P file sharing will never die! Its the basis of the entertainment backbone of the 21st Century! 50 years from now, I am sure that you will be downloading your TV programs from your neighbour's house next door. Broadband internet access with kazaa is already a viable entertainment alternative to watching TV if you learn all the tricks. One the genie is out of the bottle, I don't think it can be put back in.
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I am fully aware of the fact that certain Linux distros like Red Hat and Mandrake are getting as easy to install as XP, however.... Normal users can't even install XP most of the time.
Try to explain to me why an ordinary user, who requires technical support in the first place, decides to forgo his or her preinstalled XP or something and go to the bother of putting Linux on their machine at all...?? Where is the advantage? The incentive? In may experience, even as a sysadmin in the computing department of a uni, 90% of users couldn't even install XP themselves, never mind linux, whether its getting easier to install or not. Sorry, I don't buy the idea that there are armies of secret linux users installing linux on their PCs at work behind their sysadmin's back. I just can't see it...
As far as I am aware, XD2 only currently supports Red Hat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 SuSE 8.2
It was a struggle getting the rpms from the mirror servers today, but what do you expect its just released today. My workstation in the office was a struggle but I did manage to get XD2 fairly easily from my home machine. First impressions are that its very slick and clean, looks very good and feels very good. I will have to give it a go in place of KDE for a while, at least for my Red Hat Installation. Downloading was the only problem, no dependancy problems or anything, the installer seems to pull in everything that it needed. Its a pain though having to rename all of the "E-Mail" menu icons back to "Ximian Evolution" etc, but hey for a normal user it might be nice. Linux could take off on the desktop I think with combinations like Red Hat 9 and XD2 on the go together. If only they could unite their efforts a lot more, maybe we would have a desktop that non-geek mortals are ready to use.
It was a struggle getting the rpms from the mirror servers today, but what do you expect its just released today. My workstation in the office was a struggle but I did manage to get XD2 fairly easily from my home machine. First impressions are that its very slick and clean, looks very good and feels very good. I will have to give it a go in place of KDE for a while, at least for my Red Hat Installation. Downloading was the only problem, no dependancy problems or anything, the installer seems to pull in everything that it needed. Its a pain though having to rename all of the "E-Mail" menu icons back to "Ximian Evolution" etc, but hey for a normal user it might be nice. Linux could take off on the desktop I think with combinations like Red Hat 9 and XD2 on the go together. If only they could unite their efforts a lot more, maybe we would have a desktop that non-geek mortals are ready to use.
Oh man, I am getting so sick of this crap! So its OK to attack other people's networks maliciously if you are a rich and capitalistically greedy record company, but not OK if you are some kid hacking in your parent's garage?
What the RIAA and its little friends try to do gets more and more ridiculous every time! What's next?
1) Hard drives that autodestruct when copyrighted mp3s are written to them.
2) P2P network company staff allowed to be legally beaten up, so long as its by an RIAA employee.
3) CDs created with hidden data tracks on them containing software that reports the user when illegal mp3s are written on them?
When are these people going to realise that they have already gone to far and that anyway it doesn't matter how far they do because P2P file sharing will never die! Its the basis of the entertainment backbone of the 21st Century! 50 years from now, I am sure that you will be downloading your TV programs from your neighbour's house next door. Broadband internet access with kazaa is already a viable entertainment alternative to watching TV if you learn all the tricks. One the genie is out of the bottle, I don't think it can be put back in.
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