For ordinary people (i.e., non-geek types) Linux would be more appealing if it came pre-installed and cheaper than an equivallent Windows machine.
Done. Here's what the hardware looks like. The Wal-Mart site seems to have sold out of these PCs with a preload of Linux-Mandrake or a preload of Lycoris Linux. They still have Lindows-loaded PCs of this type available, but I really am not inclined to call Lindows Linux because there's so much wrong with it.
A friend of mine reported that at the UnitedLinux booth at Comdex this year, there was only one machine, and that was running (sit down for this one) XP Professional. That's right, XP Pro.
UnitedLinux doesn't eat its own dog food. Not a good sign.
Good...Holland didn't pass the EuroDMCA. Amsterdam and Utrecht are cold this time of year, but the chill in the US is a bit harder to take. Screw the BSA...those thugs Deserve To Lose.
Mandrake never beats Red Hat to anything. Mandrake follows, and I bet that Mandrake 10 (if they are around) has a unified desktop. Mandrake has yet to innovate their way out of anything.
Actually the reason why I like Mandrake is because I want my KDE unmolested. Screw unified desktops! I don't want a freakin' unified desktop, man...I want my KDE. I also like having my choice of other desktops when I want it, and Mandrake is set up to where you can use just about any window manager in existence by just choosing it at the pull-down menu on the graphic login.
I also like getting everything I want from a Linux distro in a package that works right out of the box. No other distro has installed so perfectly and has been so usable from point zero than Mandrake is. Gotta love that. Also gotta love those neat little games...Frozen-Bubble, baby!;-)
As soon as I get my first full paycheck from my new job, Mandrake is getting another club member. And I hope if Mandrakesoft doesn't make it, that they release ALL their goodies to the rest of the world so that other people can keep the distro going.
Lycoris and Lindows are both horrible sellout distros which arent really linux.
Pardon? yourself...maybe Lindows is a horrible sellout distro but both are real Linux under the hood, (clue: it's the Kernel that counts) and Lycoris is a real Linux distro that puts out a GPL version for download and gives back source to much of its own code to the community. Sure, they keep a few things proprietary, but so does Red Hat.
However, the credit for the Multiplane Camera was given to Walt Disney, not to its true inventor, Ub Iwerks. That guy got ZERO respect from Disney. Walt also took credit for the final design for Mickey Mouse...guess what? Iwerks drew that. According to animation historians, Disney couldn't draw to save his own life. He relied on Iwerks to take his scribbles and scrawls and turn them into something that actually LOOKED GOOD.
MSNBC has even been known to bash The Mothership on occasion.
TechTV knows what side its bread is buttered on...most people run Windows (sad but true) and it follows that TSS and other TechTV shows are very Windows-centric as a result.
However, Chris DiBona is a TSS regular, and Leo Laporte is very loud in his support of MacOS X. I don't think the rest of them are too fond of Windows but give out Windows tips because that's what the viewers use. Yoshi seems to like Windows the most because that's what's got the most games.
Now, don't get me started on Chris Pirillo...he genuinely seems to be Borged by MS.
Microsoft's embraced-and-extended RTF cannot be read by AppleWorks, aka ClarisWorks. When MS Word encounters RTF from AppleWorks, it doesn't parse it right and you are left with gobbledygook. MS and standards are an inherent contradiction.
My computer of choice gives me an orchestral chord when it starts up, and Moofs if I want it to.
I am running a Gateway surplus motherboard in a ATX case, and it just does the typical feep that all x86 computers since the IBM5150. However, I haven't played around with very recent Gateway PCs. I haven't been to a Gateway Country store since the one in Northridge, CA closed down.
Another small feature that AOL has that (as far as I know) isn't emulated with many other ways of connecting to the Net: multiple screennames.
Hello? Eudora, KMail, Silpheed, even Lookout Excess and Outhouse do multiple identities in email! You can set up multiple email accounts in these clients to allow multiple users to use email. In other categories of Internet software, the "multiple personalities" trick is even simpler. This is no longer a problem. Most ISPs give multiple emails with accounts as a matter of course.
The "no multiple screen-names" argument is no longer valid.
Freedom. Freedom from DRM. Freedom to use the OS however you want to. Freedom to tweak and change, even at code-level. Freedom to install the OS on any machine you want to without asking "Mother May I?" Freedom from bullshit licenses and other nightmares. Freedom from the vast majority of viruses and exploits. I'd say that's a REAL compelling reason.
Why are you so all-fire sure that nobody's going to create an alternative to BitKeeper? Look at the outrage that sparked the development of GNOME. The QT license got people's dander up, and eventually Red Hat started the GNOME project. BitKeeper seems to have a much worse license.
I'll make you a bet: by the end of the year there will be more BitKeeper-killer projects going than you could count on both hands. One of them will eventually be adopted. And BitKeeper's creators will find themselves with a product that nobody wants to use. Not even Linus.
Trust the Bazaar. If given a choice between Software Libre and Free-As-In-Beer products that are equally good, the community will grab the Libre choice. This is the free/open software community we're talking about, folks! Principle matters to most of us.
What I'd like is to see apps like Encore (a music score editor + playback program), Finale (a more professional version of the same thing), Juliard Musical Adventure (an edutainment program. Pretty good.)
Figure out how to make apps like those run on Linux, or write NATIVE apps like those on Linux, and I will happily de-assimilate one of my Windows 2K boxen. Happily.
Basically the MacTV was an LCII with a TV tuner. It was also a spiffy black when everyone was making beige boxen. Ahead of its time and now a major collectors' item amongst Mac fans. Just don't try to use it...it didn't do computing well and it didn't do TV well.
eSchool News (free reg required) has an interesting article about how the DoE is investigating sexual discrimination in tech-ed throughout the country.
Who cares, you're a jerk and you shouldn't talk like that to newbies. Imagine if someone gave you crap like that when you were starting out! You'd prolly still be running Windows.
I was expecting the FCC to rubber-stamp the DirecTV/Dish Network merger. Maybe this signals some sort of change in priorities? Maybe the FCC might be wising up about the possible risks of all this consolidation of the media?
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Done. Here's what the hardware looks like. The Wal-Mart site seems to have sold out of these PCs with a preload of Linux-Mandrake or a preload of Lycoris Linux. They still have Lindows-loaded PCs of this type available, but I really am not inclined to call Lindows Linux because there's so much wrong with it.
A friend of mine reported that at the UnitedLinux booth at Comdex this year, there was only one machine, and that was running (sit down for this one) XP Professional. That's right, XP Pro.
UnitedLinux doesn't eat its own dog food. Not a good sign.
We have *always* been at war with Eastasia.
Eurasia has always been our ally.
Oceania, Oceania, 'tis for thee...
Yeah, but guess who gets stuck with those costs? Not the record companies. It's the ARTIST.
Good...Holland didn't pass the EuroDMCA. Amsterdam and Utrecht are cold this time of year, but the chill in the US is a bit harder to take. Screw the BSA...those thugs Deserve To Lose.
Actually the reason why I like Mandrake is because I want my KDE unmolested. Screw unified desktops! I don't want a freakin' unified desktop, man...I want my KDE. I also like having my choice of other desktops when I want it, and Mandrake is set up to where you can use just about any window manager in existence by just choosing it at the pull-down menu on the graphic login.
I also like getting everything I want from a Linux distro in a package that works right out of the box. No other distro has installed so perfectly and has been so usable from point zero than Mandrake is. Gotta love that. Also gotta love those neat little games...Frozen-Bubble, baby! ;-)
As soon as I get my first full paycheck from my new job, Mandrake is getting another club member. And I hope if Mandrakesoft doesn't make it, that they release ALL their goodies to the rest of the world so that other people can keep the distro going.
Pardon? yourself...maybe Lindows is a horrible sellout distro but both are real Linux under the hood, (clue: it's the Kernel that counts) and Lycoris is a real Linux distro that puts out a GPL version for download and gives back source to much of its own code to the community. Sure, they keep a few things proprietary, but so does Red Hat.
Nitwit.
However, the credit for the Multiplane Camera was given to Walt Disney, not to its true inventor, Ub Iwerks. That guy got ZERO respect from Disney. Walt also took credit for the final design for Mickey Mouse...guess what? Iwerks drew that. According to animation historians, Disney couldn't draw to save his own life. He relied on Iwerks to take his scribbles and scrawls and turn them into something that actually LOOKED GOOD.
MSNBC has even been known to bash The Mothership on occasion.
TechTV knows what side its bread is buttered on...most people run Windows (sad but true) and it follows that TSS and other TechTV shows are very Windows-centric as a result.
However, Chris DiBona is a TSS regular, and Leo Laporte is very loud in his support of MacOS X. I don't think the rest of them are too fond of Windows but give out Windows tips because that's what the viewers use. Yoshi seems to like Windows the most because that's what's got the most games.
Now, don't get me started on Chris Pirillo...he genuinely seems to be Borged by MS.
Microsoft's embraced-and-extended RTF cannot be read by AppleWorks, aka ClarisWorks. When MS Word encounters RTF from AppleWorks, it doesn't parse it right and you are left with gobbledygook. MS and standards are an inherent contradiction.
I am running a Gateway surplus motherboard in a ATX case, and it just does the typical feep that all x86 computers since the IBM5150. However, I haven't played around with very recent Gateway PCs. I haven't been to a Gateway Country store since the one in Northridge, CA closed down.
I hope you don't mind...I absolutely had to use this as my .SIG.
Hello? Eudora, KMail, Silpheed, even Lookout Excess and Outhouse do multiple identities in email! You can set up multiple email accounts in these clients to allow multiple users to use email. In other categories of Internet software, the "multiple personalities" trick is even simpler. This is no longer a problem. Most ISPs give multiple emails with accounts as a matter of course.
The "no multiple screen-names" argument is no longer valid.
The plot thickens....
Forget that annoying geek...I want to see a fan site for Ned, the annoying geek in the Ditech commercials.
"You won't call Ditech too, will you?" -- Ned to his Teddy Bear
Freedom.
Freedom from DRM.
Freedom to use the OS however you want to.
Freedom to tweak and change, even at code-level.
Freedom to install the OS on any machine you want to without asking "Mother May I?"
Freedom from bullshit licenses and other nightmares.
Freedom from the vast majority of viruses and exploits.
I'd say that's a REAL compelling reason.
Why are you so all-fire sure that nobody's going to create an alternative to BitKeeper? Look at the outrage that sparked the development of GNOME. The QT license got people's dander up, and eventually Red Hat started the GNOME project. BitKeeper seems to have a much worse license.
I'll make you a bet: by the end of the year there will be more BitKeeper-killer projects going than you could count on both hands. One of them will eventually be adopted. And BitKeeper's creators will find themselves with a product that nobody wants to use. Not even Linus.
Trust the Bazaar. If given a choice between Software Libre and Free-As-In-Beer products that are equally good, the community will grab the Libre choice. This is the free/open software community we're talking about, folks! Principle matters to most of us.
Screw that, man...I want Sound Forge. I want ACID. I want Vegas Video. I want Martin Hash Animation:Master. I want ProTools.
Figure out how to make apps like those run on Linux, or write NATIVE apps like those on Linux, and I will happily de-assimilate one of my Windows 2K boxen. Happily.
...Lessig lost. Way to argue, counsellor. :(
Basically the MacTV was an LCII with a TV tuner. It was also a spiffy black when everyone was making beige boxen. Ahead of its time and now a major collectors' item amongst Mac fans. Just don't try to use it...it didn't do computing well and it didn't do TV well.
Link, please? Thanks!
Who cares, you're a jerk and you shouldn't talk like that to newbies. Imagine if someone gave you crap like that when you were starting out! You'd prolly still be running Windows.
I was expecting the FCC to rubber-stamp the DirecTV/Dish Network merger. Maybe this signals some sort of change in priorities? Maybe the FCC might be wising up about the possible risks of all this consolidation of the media?
Nah.
I made KDE3 run on a K6-2 300 with 128. It worked perfectly. A little slow, but once I put in more RAM it was smooth sailing.
No, Don Valenti wouldn't. He'd send out some soldiers to do it. And leave a horse's head in your bed while he's at it.