I doubt there is more, but how about you do a package search, generate a list of about 100 software installs, and select and install them: At once. Good luck with that: enjoy your shareware/malware/crippleware/spyware/eula answering love fest, while watching your system constantly evolving the menus, right click options, meanwhile splattering your desktop with icons and reorganizing your menus. Sounds like fun.
I dont know, but Steam (and its games), Urban Terror, hundreds of many genres of games, and thousands of flash games work just fine on Linux, thank you. I seem to be reminded of this: http://xkcd.com/484/ anyways.
Hear Hear. Windows choices for dealing with the file system and auto locking files *sometimes* for even reads is asinine. At least linux is consistent and gives me the power to choose.
I have not been very happy with them either. They do seem to burn out *years* before they should, often in the same timeframe or less then incandescent. Worse, in small spaces, like a bathroom, two or more tend to get hot and off-gas (polyvinyl chloride base is my guess), and then when they do burn out they often get hotter still and turn brown or buzz. Do I think the sky is falling? No, but this is not something I have great confidence in for a closed up for the winter household.
What is this fascination with "upgrading"? IE 8 is not much of an "upgrade" at all, its another version that has its share of problems. I really dislike the windows world of versioning, FOSS generally makes a lot more sense to me. If there are security issues with IE, in 6 7 or 8 they should be fixed as incremental versions. If a complete re-write happened, then it should be released as a new version, and its not really an upgrade, but a change.
No its not half bad. Its all bad. With so many great music managers out there I wish Apple would let me choose, instead of forcing me to use the crap that is iTunes with my iPhone.
No you are on crack. Windows 7 is half way to where the Linux desktop has been, and not even close to where its going. I have probably a list of 25 features that any modern desktop should have and only about 1/2 of those are availlable with 3rd party apps under windows. Wheres my push to back click? Single click that works? 3d accel forwarding for remote sessions? I could go on for days.
And as for Office 2007 VS OpenOffice, it depends on what the criteria is. OpenOffice is more flexible for scripting. Excel still has nasty bugs in its math functions. Office 2007 gives you three choices of colors: ugly, nasty, and terrible: OpenOffice can look like anything I want, skinning to KDE, Gnome, or whatever. I also can edit OO files with a script.
I dont think you spend enough time in both platforms, Windows drives me crazy with just how awful and inconsistent it is.
So when are they going to replace iTunes decent software?
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They invented a specific mp3 player and managed to get together the software that sealed the deal to allow a music web store. Many had tried, and failed. Apple was the first to get labels to pay attention, and sit down and seriously negotiate.
I disagree. At least for the iPod. Steve Jobs created the e-music store by demonstrating his device and the software to iTunes. There is no denying that he got the first big players to make deals and that opened the way for more deals. It may be a "me too" product, but that product paved the way for online music shopping.
I have many problems with gnome as well, but several of the things you mentioned are available now.
But the menus do need to be more configurable. I am annoyed that everything has to be so damn big.
And they could use to get single clicking right, which only KDE ever pulled of effectively.
Also, you can use SBSettings to disable ssh. ITs easy to get to, just slide your finger accross the top of the screen and a config manager drops down. Click it on or off. Changing a password AND disabling it until you need it makes a lot of sense.
If your phone is jailbroken. I do not know if it protects the user form this company, but it does block information that other companies have been known to try and get. Yet Apple is still trying to convince users that the App store is the only safe place for software.
If I only had mod points....
You are absolutly correct, each release impresses....then breaks. There is always something going on with ubuntu that isnt quite right, or breaks later on. But more importantly, I too am getting concerned with the direction it is taking.
If they use Excel for high end functions I would suggest they get software made for that purpose anyways. High end functions and excel have no place in a modern work environment. And if you absolutely have to make a case that your business needs it, at least have the functions in real code that will continue to work long after Microsoft changes the way Excel works.
I got marked a troll?? ROFLMAO. Seriously, sharepoint? Ever use a real content management system or only the black hole that pretends to be one? Its horrible at bug reporting, and nearly everything else it does. Hell search is so bad there are third party ad ons to make it work right. Wow. Drink Kool-Aid much?
I would go one better: You can control access to applications across the enterprise, user software and groups, settings and desktop environments, while controlling it from a central location. Thin client linux boxes (with sound, 3d acceleration as well) and manage everything in one place. Cant do that as easily with windows, nor as effectively. Suddenly its not only easier in Linux, its cheaper too.
I can see missing Visio, but sharepoint access? I can only dream of the day I cant access sharepoint, what a mess that software is. I think people get to believing MS is the only way to do things because they have trained themselves to believe that overly complicated software that isnt the right tool for the job as long as its "industry standard" is the way to go.
In any case, every now and then I visit here: http://davelargo.blogspot.com/ because Dave is open and honest with the struggles and success of implementing his own reality using FOSS and saving tons of money while he's at it..
Pay attention that he has time to act on his users needs, rather then re-act to software breakages, outages, support and vendor issues only.
So if I want to get Ktorrent, which is torrent for KDE, and it pulls KDE in with it, does it need to tell me its installing KDE? Does the package manager need to tell me? On most distro's this information is available, so you will see it being added, but who is responsible for alerting the user? If I get all of KDE, which includes Kget, it has a torrent manager included, so does it need to warn me during the install about what it does and where it shares?
How about KDE 4 and Shared Desktops, or Opera and its social server?
If you think you can do that there is money to be made. Spatial maps, particularly NOT flash are in demand. You might want to add GeoDjango to your toolkit and have at it.
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Are you referring to MySpace or Facebook?
I doubt there is more, but how about you do a package search, generate a list of about 100 software installs, and select and install them: At once. Good luck with that: enjoy your shareware/malware/crippleware/spyware/eula answering love fest, while watching your system constantly evolving the menus, right click options, meanwhile splattering your desktop with icons and reorganizing your menus. Sounds like fun.
I dont know, but Steam (and its games), Urban Terror, hundreds of many genres of games, and thousands of flash games work just fine on Linux, thank you.
I seem to be reminded of this: http://xkcd.com/484/ anyways.
Hear Hear. Windows choices for dealing with the file system and auto locking files *sometimes* for even reads is asinine. At least linux is consistent and gives me the power to choose.
I have not been very happy with them either. They do seem to burn out *years* before they should, often in the same timeframe or less then incandescent.
Worse, in small spaces, like a bathroom, two or more tend to get hot and off-gas (polyvinyl chloride base is my guess), and then when they do burn out they often get hotter still and turn brown or buzz.
Do I think the sky is falling? No, but this is not something I have great confidence in for a closed up for the winter household.
What is this fascination with "upgrading"? IE 8 is not much of an "upgrade" at all, its another version that has its share of problems. I really dislike the windows world of versioning, FOSS generally makes a lot more sense to me. If there are security issues with IE, in 6 7 or 8 they should be fixed as incremental versions. If a complete re-write happened, then it should be released as a new version, and its not really an upgrade, but a change.
No its not half bad. Its all bad. With so many great music managers out there I wish Apple would let me choose, instead of forcing me to use the crap that is iTunes with my iPhone.
No you are on crack. Windows 7 is half way to where the Linux desktop has been, and not even close to where its going. I have probably a list of 25 features that any modern desktop should have and only about 1/2 of those are availlable with 3rd party apps under windows. Wheres my push to back click? Single click that works? 3d accel forwarding for remote sessions? I could go on for days.
And as for Office 2007 VS OpenOffice, it depends on what the criteria is. OpenOffice is more flexible for scripting. Excel still has nasty bugs in its math functions. Office 2007 gives you three choices of colors: ugly, nasty, and terrible: OpenOffice can look like anything I want, skinning to KDE, Gnome, or whatever. I also can edit OO files with a script.
I dont think you spend enough time in both platforms, Windows drives me crazy with just how awful and inconsistent it is.
So when are they going to replace iTunes decent software?
They invented a specific mp3 player and managed to get together the software that sealed the deal to allow a music web store. Many had tried, and failed. Apple was the first to get labels to pay attention, and sit down and seriously negotiate.
I disagree. At least for the iPod. Steve Jobs created the e-music store by demonstrating his device and the software to iTunes. There is no denying that he got the first big players to make deals and that opened the way for more deals. It may be a "me too" product, but that product paved the way for online music shopping.
You can run as root with a right click, you can open a terminal in current location, second display can be virtual, etc.
I have many problems with gnome as well, but several of the things you mentioned are available now. But the menus do need to be more configurable. I am annoyed that everything has to be so damn big. And they could use to get single clicking right, which only KDE ever pulled of effectively.
Pander fear, but then what do they trust for their web site and blog?
Apache and Centos and Redhat. Nice.
Also, you can use SBSettings to disable ssh. ITs easy to get to, just slide your finger accross the top of the screen and a config manager drops down. Click it on or off. Changing a password AND disabling it until you need it makes a lot of sense.
If your phone is jailbroken. I do not know if it protects the user form this company, but it does block information that other companies have been known to try and get. Yet Apple is still trying to convince users that the App store is the only safe place for software.
If I only had mod points.... You are absolutly correct, each release impresses....then breaks. There is always something going on with ubuntu that isnt quite right, or breaks later on. But more importantly, I too am getting concerned with the direction it is taking.
If they use Excel for high end functions I would suggest they get software made for that purpose anyways. High end functions and excel have no place in a modern work environment. And if you absolutely have to make a case that your business needs it, at least have the functions in real code that will continue to work long after Microsoft changes the way Excel works.
I got marked a troll?? ROFLMAO. Seriously, sharepoint? Ever use a real content management system or only the black hole that pretends to be one? Its horrible at bug reporting, and nearly everything else it does. Hell search is so bad there are third party ad ons to make it work right. Wow. Drink Kool-Aid much?
You may wish to read here: http://davelargo.blogspot.com/
I would go one better: You can control access to applications across the enterprise, user software and groups, settings and desktop environments, while controlling it from a central location. Thin client linux boxes (with sound, 3d acceleration as well) and manage everything in one place. Cant do that as easily with windows, nor as effectively. Suddenly its not only easier in Linux, its cheaper too.
I can see missing Visio, but sharepoint access? I can only dream of the day I cant access sharepoint, what a mess that software is. I think people get to believing MS is the only way to do things because they have trained themselves to believe that overly complicated software that isnt the right tool for the job as long as its "industry standard" is the way to go.
In any case, every now and then I visit here: http://davelargo.blogspot.com/ because Dave is open and honest with the struggles and success of implementing his own reality using FOSS and saving tons of money while he's at it..
Pay attention that he has time to act on his users needs, rather then re-act to software breakages, outages, support and vendor issues only.
In the end it wasn't guns or bombs that killed the aliens, but the humblest of all god's creatures.....
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So if I want to get Ktorrent, which is torrent for KDE, and it pulls KDE in with it, does it need to tell me its installing KDE? Does the package manager need to tell me? On most distro's this information is available, so you will see it being added, but who is responsible for alerting the user? If I get all of KDE, which includes Kget, it has a torrent manager included, so does it need to warn me during the install about what it does and where it shares?
How about KDE 4 and Shared Desktops, or Opera and its social server?
If you think you can do that there is money to be made. Spatial maps, particularly NOT flash are in demand. You might want to add GeoDjango to your toolkit and have at it.