Gnome 2.18: Nothing special really, just somewhat improved infravision, an extra +10 bonus to detect uneven grades, worked out some bugs in the "failure to run from big scary trolls due to lack of common sense" department. Should be a somewhat more usable gnome.
I could be wrong the drivers that Ubuntu installs through Adept for Nvidia cards are the closed-source binary drivers are they not? (not nv but the nvidia ones) It may taint the kernel to have them but how are we ever going to get hardware manufacturers to support Linux officially if we cannot show that there is a demand? Most normal users (that would create a demand) are not going to be impressed by a system that won't support 3D acceleration with all the cool desktop effects that seem to be all the rage nowadays. For now, those kinds of drivers could be one of the only solutions we have for gaining a larger user base.
Maybe if a company like Dell supports one distribution, and get enough people using it, hardware manufacturers will take note and write official drivers and have labels on their packaging like "System Requirements: Windows XP/Vista, Mac, or Ubuntu Linux"
But would you be buying a Dell for your home?
I'm thinking you'd prolly build your own computer, like most of us on here. The people (aside from businesses buying high-end servers) who would normally buy proprietary systems are those who lack either the time, knowledge, or patience to build their own and most of those people would prolly not have those qualities in reference to installing their own OS either, especially when faced with the wide variety of Linux distributions available to them.
Just because one has a god, doesn't mean they're good and just because one is good, does not mean they are shackled by a god. If people would just strip the dogma out of their life it leaves them free to do good things for the sake of helping out a neighbor, not because after ignoring all the negative things religion has contributed to the world, one found a grain of goodness in it to inspire them.
As a case in point NOFX has been on Conan O'Brien (which is, admittedly, not a lot of television play, but that is their preference), makes plenty of money, has their own label, tours when they feel like it, and is distributed on Epitaph records, making their records widely available. If a band needs more than that then they're guilty of corporate greed and maybe they deserve to get raped by labels. Music is not about selling out to the masses, it's about doing something you enjoy. If record labels lose money on greedy bands, good, then maybe the world will be presented with better music when the people controlling the purse strings and, therefore, bringing awful music to the masses become extinct following a business model that fails to change with technology.
"If it is not fair, why then does the artist not sign the unfair contract and sell it themselves? Because the reality is, without a lable, you cant sell on a large scale or get airplay, for a large enough audience to hear your music."
I think NOFX and other independant punk and underground bands have proven that they do not need to be slaves to the labels, nor do they need radio airplay that caters largely to people who lack diversity in their musical taste, to be successful.
Oh, Debian by itself is ok, but slag on Xandros and the problems show... but that's just my experience... the ui was just too heavy.
and as far as SUSE and rpms go, for new stuff just install the src rpm -- which doesn't necessarily have to be specifically for SUSE just the arch. -- and rpmbuild -bb/usr/src/packages/SPECS/src_specfile.spec and voila, there's your updated rpm. Works almost everytime with no modding to the specfile (cept for custom config options).
Xandros, IMHO, is ass, and definitely not representative of a useable Linux distro. In trying to get one of my users here to use Linux once, it was the distro of choice because it was somewhat windoze-like, but I never tested it much on my own because I hate the interface. It crashed constantly on the user so I took it off and gave them back Windows.
For switching over users to Linux now, I use SUSE and have 5 out of 22 users (working on converting more) at this site happy with Linux and have seen no SUSE crashes. The user who had the bad experience I am still not able to convince to go back to Linux because of Xandros. In the future, it may get better, but it's a poor build of Debian as far as I can tell. Even Lindows/spire *shudder* is better.
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jumping jesus on a pogostick... at 9 or 10, the trash 80 was still a year or two away... here's the obligatory, damn, i'm old statement...
If the pyramids were built by super-intelligent aliens, wouldn't they have Linux installed?
Gnome 2.18: Nothing special really, just somewhat improved infravision, an extra +10 bonus to detect uneven grades, worked out some bugs in the "failure to run from big scary trolls due to lack of common sense" department. Should be a somewhat more usable gnome.
yeah and imagine a leaky refill...
Microsoft must have it's eye on goatse.cx
I could be wrong the drivers that Ubuntu installs through Adept for Nvidia cards are the closed-source binary drivers are they not? (not nv but the nvidia ones) It may taint the kernel to have them but how are we ever going to get hardware manufacturers to support Linux officially if we cannot show that there is a demand? Most normal users (that would create a demand) are not going to be impressed by a system that won't support 3D acceleration with all the cool desktop effects that seem to be all the rage nowadays. For now, those kinds of drivers could be one of the only solutions we have for gaining a larger user base.
Maybe if a company like Dell supports one distribution, and get enough people using it, hardware manufacturers will take note and write official drivers and have labels on their packaging like "System Requirements: Windows XP/Vista, Mac, or Ubuntu Linux"
Who knows, I could be talking about pipe dreams.
Ubuntu seems to handle Nvidia and ATI setup pretty well. At least I haven't had any problems with it (as long as I use the Ubuntu packages).
But would you be buying a Dell for your home? I'm thinking you'd prolly build your own computer, like most of us on here. The people (aside from businesses buying high-end servers) who would normally buy proprietary systems are those who lack either the time, knowledge, or patience to build their own and most of those people would prolly not have those qualities in reference to installing their own OS either, especially when faced with the wide variety of Linux distributions available to them.
Just because one has a god, doesn't mean they're good and just because one is good, does not mean they are shackled by a god. If people would just strip the dogma out of their life it leaves them free to do good things for the sake of helping out a neighbor, not because after ignoring all the negative things religion has contributed to the world, one found a grain of goodness in it to inspire them.
As a case in point NOFX has been on Conan O'Brien (which is, admittedly, not a lot of television play, but that is their preference), makes plenty of money, has their own label, tours when they feel like it, and is distributed on Epitaph records, making their records widely available. If a band needs more than that then they're guilty of corporate greed and maybe they deserve to get raped by labels. Music is not about selling out to the masses, it's about doing something you enjoy. If record labels lose money on greedy bands, good, then maybe the world will be presented with better music when the people controlling the purse strings and, therefore, bringing awful music to the masses become extinct following a business model that fails to change with technology.
"If it is not fair, why then does the artist not sign the unfair contract and sell it themselves? Because the reality is, without a lable, you cant sell on a large scale or get airplay, for a large enough audience to hear your music."
I think NOFX and other independant punk and underground bands have proven that they do not need to be slaves to the labels, nor do they need radio airplay that caters largely to people who lack diversity in their musical taste, to be successful.
They should offer up servers to help the world compile. Now *that's* support....
Oh, Debian by itself is ok, but slag on Xandros and the problems show... but that's just my experience... the ui was just too heavy.
/usr/src/packages/SPECS/src_specfile.spec and voila, there's your updated rpm. Works almost everytime with no modding to the specfile (cept for custom config options).
and as far as SUSE and rpms go, for new stuff just install the src rpm -- which doesn't necessarily have to be specifically for SUSE just the arch. -- and rpmbuild -bb
Xandros, IMHO, is ass, and definitely not representative of a useable Linux distro. In trying to get one of my users here to use Linux once, it was the distro of choice because it was somewhat windoze-like, but I never tested it much on my own because I hate the interface. It crashed constantly on the user so I took it off and gave them back Windows.
For switching over users to Linux now, I use SUSE and have 5 out of 22 users (working on converting more) at this site happy with Linux and have seen no SUSE crashes. The user who had the bad experience I am still not able to convince to go back to Linux because of Xandros. In the future, it may get better, but it's a poor build of Debian as far as I can tell. Even Lindows/spire *shudder* is better.