The author seemed to be a bit miffed by the fact that a printer wasn't instantly recognized and configured. While I understand the frustration this causes, he seems to put the blame squarely on Ubuntu's shoulders, and, at the same time, praising vista for it's ability to cope with it. When are people going to realize that the reason why certain peripherals will not work with Linux is not the fault of the Linux community of developers, but the manufacturers of the peripherals who are not allowing or even refusing to assist in the development of proper drivers for Linux. I think the Linux community has done a superb job of handling this, so far, and Ubuntu Feisty definitely illustrates this hard work.
I feel that Linux, and the impetus for it, is so much more important to computing than that of Windows. That being said, I use windows for my desktop environment because it just works, and I can do a complete rebuild in under a day versus nearly a week for a typical Linux desktop. I use Linux for my servers. These tend to be very quick installs with no special crap to configure (Xorg, printers, sound, video). While my philosophical stance on computing runs parallel to the Linux community, I am a pragmatist when dealing with my day-to-day activities. Linux for servers is top-notch, but I'm still waiting for the Desktop to catch up.
I agree. The devices that I have that do work "out of the box", work fantastic. Even so, I think we can agree that If you have a wireless card, WPA is the only way to go for security (in light of the recent WEP vulnerability). Ubuntu, I would guess, is the easiest to enable WPA, but even that can be a chore.
Don't get me wrong. I love Linux for my servers, but try to install a wireless card or a scanner and then see if it's ready. Linux is a fantastic OS, but until the community gets more backing from some major manufacturers, I don't think it's quite ready for anything beyond a barebones desktop with little or no peripherals.
... Torso-mounted, incendiary shrapnel delivery unit. Comes equipped with convenient thumb-operated trigger, warped perception of reality, and seriously misguided faith-based initiative.
In this edition Windows Vista would have a relatively small impact on the system's resources. The GPU usage would be dominated by games and media processing. 1GB of RAM would push more than the latest edition of spider solitaire. To top it all off, you wouldn't need 256mb+ of VRAM to alt-tab.
Of course, I jest, but is the KISS rule beyond big brother bill?
I'm just looking out for all you lusers who are stuck in the microsoft mindset. If you're getting a hardon over how visually appealing or "innovative" vista is (or will be), you need to open your eyes and re-evaluate your views. Microsoft's new window graphics toolkit shouldn't be called Glass... it should be called SMOKE and MIRRORS.
It's this complete disregard for common sense that drove me to the *nix world years ago. I'm not sure what's more sad... that microsoft is so pompous that they feel people MUST upgrade their perfectly good hardware to run their incredibly bloated, bug-ridden, joke of an OS, or that 90% of the "typical"(=lemming) users will blindly follow suit.
On a side note... Props to ESR for telling microsoft where to stick their job offer.
Let me go out on a limb here and assume that this little novelty only works with Micro$oft products. If I have you use Outlook to benefit from the features of this mouse, they can keep it.:-P
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The author seemed to be a bit miffed by the fact that a printer wasn't instantly recognized and configured. While I understand the frustration this causes, he seems to put the blame squarely on Ubuntu's shoulders, and, at the same time, praising vista for it's ability to cope with it. When are people going to realize that the reason why certain peripherals will not work with Linux is not the fault of the Linux community of developers, but the manufacturers of the peripherals who are not allowing or even refusing to assist in the development of proper drivers for Linux. I think the Linux community has done a superb job of handling this, so far, and Ubuntu Feisty definitely illustrates this hard work.
...to use PostgreSQL
...I sure did.
I feel that Linux, and the impetus for it, is so much more important to computing than that of Windows. That being said, I use windows for my desktop environment because it just works, and I can do a complete rebuild in under a day versus nearly a week for a typical Linux desktop. I use Linux for my servers. These tend to be very quick installs with no special crap to configure (Xorg, printers, sound, video). While my philosophical stance on computing runs parallel to the Linux community, I am a pragmatist when dealing with my day-to-day activities. Linux for servers is top-notch, but I'm still waiting for the Desktop to catch up.
Me either... although my system is a server machine with no desktop environments (gnome, kde, etc.).
But, then again, so are the Boy Scouts...
I agree. The devices that I have that do work "out of the box", work fantastic. Even so, I think we can agree that If you have a wireless card, WPA is the only way to go for security (in light of the recent WEP vulnerability). Ubuntu, I would guess, is the easiest to enable WPA, but even that can be a chore.
Don't get me wrong. I love Linux for my servers, but try to install a wireless card or a scanner and then see if it's ready. Linux is a fantastic OS, but until the community gets more backing from some major manufacturers, I don't think it's quite ready for anything beyond a barebones desktop with little or no peripherals.
You're a moron if you're paying for broadband AND aol service. It's like paying a spammer to give you personalized popups and c1aliS/v1aGra emails.
.. an official law with a recursive naming scheme?
... Torso-mounted, incendiary shrapnel delivery unit. Comes equipped with convenient thumb-operated trigger, warped perception of reality, and seriously misguided faith-based initiative.
an ad-supported windows would only serve to prove my point about microsoft. that they know nothing about what an operating system is.
the vista kernel is codenamed winux (sounded better than wunix or winbsd)
In this edition Windows Vista would have a relatively small impact on the system's resources. The GPU usage would be dominated by games and media processing. 1GB of RAM would push more than the latest edition of spider solitaire. To top it all off, you wouldn't need 256mb+ of VRAM to alt-tab.
Of course, I jest, but is the KISS rule beyond big brother bill?
I'm just looking out for all you lusers who are stuck in the microsoft mindset. If you're getting a hardon over how visually appealing or "innovative" vista is (or will be), you need to open your eyes and re-evaluate your views. Microsoft's new window graphics toolkit shouldn't be called Glass... it should be called SMOKE and MIRRORS.
Yay. I'm so happy that I can have windows on my flash drive. I wonder what a flash drive core dump looks like?? hmmmmm... gee
It's this complete disregard for common sense that drove me to the *nix world years ago. I'm not sure what's more sad... that microsoft is so pompous that they feel people MUST upgrade their perfectly good hardware to run their incredibly bloated, bug-ridden, joke of an OS, or that 90% of the "typical"(=lemming) users will blindly follow suit. On a side note... Props to ESR for telling microsoft where to stick their job offer.
I love hearing news like this. I glow with happiness every time MS gets knocked down a peg.
Let me go out on a limb here and assume that this little novelty only works with Micro$oft products. If I have you use Outlook to benefit from the features of this mouse, they can keep it. :-P
Fluxbox's alt-tab model makes me cringe. Blackbox has always done the job for me... now it's just better!