I've installed Linux...three or four times and always end up going back to Windows shortly thereafter.
Been there, did that, for years. And I program for a living and am perfectly comfortable on the command line. And now I've been using Linux at home exclusively for about 2 months. Mandrake 9.1 made that happen for me. If you haven't tried that Mandrake version, try it.
Having said that:
Dependencies. Software installation is a retarded mess sometimes, but it's getting better. A monkey can double-click setup.exe in Windows. It has to be that simple for the typical user.
The OSS equivalent of commercial software can leave much to be desired or missing entirely, especially in the way of an intuitive UI, and again, installation. Developers take note - Joe User would rather have an intuitive UI with crappy functionality, than brilliant code that he can't figure out how to use.
Why would any company waste their money porting their Windows applications to Linux if they run under Wine? As Wine gets better and better, they have less and less reason to even give a thought to Linux. And why should they?
* Killing the tree view also simplifies the architecture a lot. Right now there is a lot of machinery in place to handle the tree, making sure that components don't step on each other's toes. In particular, the handling of local folders is a maintenance nightmare, and also makes it very hard to provide the hooks that hackers need eg. to access Evolution's folders and do cool desktop integration hacks.
* The shell's APIs would be drastically reduced to just a couple calls and it would become a lot simpler to implement new components.
Evolution, as is, is one of the few "killer apps" that promotes the adoption of Linux on the desktop at home and in businesses IMHO. From a corporation's perspective going from Outlook to Evolution as far as users are concerned is easy. It seems the developers are talking about coding away major similarities between Outlook and Evolution to make life easier for themselves, not to help the average user. And it definitely doesn't help with the transition to Linux. I think it's a real shame.
The question to the government should not be whether or not the public would favor an ID card, but whether or not they would like to keep their society free. Implementing a national ID system would be a huge victory for terrorists, not the people of the UK. Terrorism would still happen, it would just happen in a society where the people had some of their freedom removed.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759
I've never understood the argument that spammers are hard to track down. These people are usually selling something. In order for someone to buy whatever it is, they have to know where to send their money. If you know that, you're always only one step away from finding out the spammer's identity.
If they're asking that spam recipients send money to a bank account - contact the bank, legitimate business - contact the business, address/PO box - contact the USPS, web site - WHOIS.
They can obscure their identity in the email itself, sure, but there is always a money trail.
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We need to find a way to kill them all. I wouldn't want them destroying the iron mine I keep in my oven.
I've installed Linux...three or four times and always end up going back to Windows shortly thereafter.
Been there, did that, for years. And I program for a living and am perfectly comfortable on the command line. And now I've been using Linux at home exclusively for about 2 months. Mandrake 9.1 made that happen for me. If you haven't tried that Mandrake version, try it.
Having said that:
Why would any company waste their money porting their Windows applications to Linux if they run under Wine? As Wine gets better and better, they have less and less reason to even give a thought to Linux. And why should they?
Pump it up is another PC version (only for Windows). But you can buy the pad and software in a bundle for pretty cheap.
Apparently you didn't RTFA.
* Killing the tree view also simplifies the architecture a lot. Right now there is a lot of machinery in place to handle the tree, making sure that components don't step on each other's toes. In particular, the handling of local folders is a maintenance nightmare, and also makes it very hard to provide the hooks that hackers need eg. to access Evolution's folders and do cool desktop integration hacks.
* The shell's APIs would be drastically reduced to just a couple calls and it would become a lot simpler to implement new components.
Evolution, as is, is one of the few "killer apps" that promotes the adoption of Linux on the desktop at home and in businesses IMHO. From a corporation's perspective going from Outlook to Evolution as far as users are concerned is easy. It seems the developers are talking about coding away major similarities between Outlook and Evolution to make life easier for themselves, not to help the average user. And it definitely doesn't help with the transition to Linux. I think it's a real shame.
The question to the government should not be whether or not the public would favor an ID card, but whether or not they would like to keep their society free. Implementing a national ID system would be a huge victory for terrorists, not the people of the UK. Terrorism would still happen, it would just happen in a society where the people had some of their freedom removed.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759
I've never understood the argument that spammers are hard to track down. These people are usually selling something. In order for someone to buy whatever it is, they have to know where to send their money. If you know that, you're always only one step away from finding out the spammer's identity.
If they're asking that spam recipients send money to a bank account - contact the bank, legitimate business - contact the business, address/PO box - contact the USPS, web site - WHOIS.
They can obscure their identity in the email itself, sure, but there is always a money trail.
"I don't think we've ever had anything like that over in Augusta," said Vonda Everitt, of the Georgia DOT...
"It doesn't look like your typical cartoon-looking robot," said Rusty Merritt, of the Georgia DOT.
I don't know about you, but I would be hesitant to trust these people with a bag of marshmallows, much less a computer-controlled demolition robot.