I know I only skimmed the articles, but I don't recall them saying they were going to buy new Apple computers. I am not against them using Linux (and can see using Windows, despite personal opinion). My point was merely that the eMacs are quite dated.
Having worked with eMacs and being familiar with their specs, I'm sure it's pretty miserable to work with (and doesn't support semi-modern software). These compare to 700-1GHz Pentium III with 128MB RAM - they were the cheap Apple computers of 7+ years ago. Replacing them is a matter of wanting to teach relevavnt technology, not just "ooo shiny".
But Ubuntu isn't the most poplular Linux version, at least not from what I've seen (and quite a few other people). Red Hat is. People see RH (CentOS, SL, Oracle, etc) far more then Ubuntu. Where? Business and government.
I'm not a fan of GNOME3, and still prefer KDE3 over KDE4, but they all provide a lot of features that XP doesn't support. Now, if they are useful or not is another story.
KDE and GNOME aren't competing against XP - they've blown XP's UI out of the water years ago. OS X and Windows 7 are the UI's they're competing against.
Also, Linux really doesn't market to the "old PC" crowd anymore anyways.
Ethanol doesn't cause gumming up so much as it just dissolves everything in there. Works terrible wonders on those of us with older cars (80's in my case).
What version are you currently on? I know that you can go from F14 to F16 (just did it on a Dell Latitude C400 (1.2GHz P3m, 1GB RAM)), but not sure how much farther back you can upgrade from.
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That's on AMD, not Ubuntu.
I know I only skimmed the articles, but I don't recall them saying they were going to buy new Apple computers. I am not against them using Linux (and can see using Windows, despite personal opinion). My point was merely that the eMacs are quite dated.
Having worked with eMacs and being familiar with their specs, I'm sure it's pretty miserable to work with (and doesn't support semi-modern software). These compare to 700-1GHz Pentium III with 128MB RAM - they were the cheap Apple computers of 7+ years ago. Replacing them is a matter of wanting to teach relevavnt technology, not just "ooo shiny".
But Ubuntu isn't the most poplular Linux version, at least not from what I've seen (and quite a few other people). Red Hat is. People see RH (CentOS, SL, Oracle, etc) far more then Ubuntu. Where? Business and government.
But who uses Ubuntu anyway? Everyone I know that still uses Linux uses Fedora or RH (and it works just fine in there).
Also, Win+R didn't work before XP.
I'm not a fan of GNOME3, and still prefer KDE3 over KDE4, but they all provide a lot of features that XP doesn't support. Now, if they are useful or not is another story.
KDE and GNOME aren't competing against XP - they've blown XP's UI out of the water years ago. OS X and Windows 7 are the UI's they're competing against.
Also, Linux really doesn't market to the "old PC" crowd anymore anyways.
Except Window Maker predates Mac OS X...
My (home) phone says 2.4GHz...
I haven't noticed issues on with Flash on nVidia with F16 (x64, custom kernel) and open source driver. I'm using a GTX 460.
If it's not still bundled, it's a free download from the App Center.
I think that spam is sovled by the 24th Century. That, and it looks like email is out too.
Ethanol doesn't cause gumming up so much as it just dissolves everything in there. Works terrible wonders on those of us with older cars (80's in my case).
What version are you currently on? I know that you can go from F14 to F16 (just did it on a Dell Latitude C400 (1.2GHz P3m, 1GB RAM)), but not sure how much farther back you can upgrade from.
I can see that being a problem. I don't know anyone using Fedora with GNOME Shell however - I usually use KDE, the other people I know are using XFCE.
I seem to remember the GNOME team saying they were dropping support for everything but Linux.
Having read the article from other sites, the item wasn't fake, and the buyer couldn't be trouble to find out either.
I wouldn't know - I don't print anything from my Linux systems, and rarely print anything on other systems. People still print regularly?
International characters are much faster for me on the Mac (link).
64bit computing yes, hence why I specified microprocessors. I really hope that his hardware isn't as old as 64bit computing....
Tired today...grammar not fully processing. Maybe I could go for having 64 bit hardware in me.
64bit Microprocessors were new in 1991...I hope you're hardware isn't that old.
MacOS 10.5-6 are 64bit if you're hardware supports it (so, only 32bit on PPC G4 and Intel Core Duo). OS 10.7 is 64bit only.
I'd say your university didn't setup Exchange correctly then.
Fedora just happens to be maintained by Red Hat...