Is creating your own Linux distro the new blogging? Are you to blame for DistroWatch's ballooning distribution count? Will all the feuding "developers" ever shut up? Stay tuned for another exciting, -1/troll-rated episode of...
Linux-family Feud (aka "10 Good Reasons to Switch to Slackware or Arch And Just Stay There")
Now, here's Mark "Thank God for Freedom of Speech" Shuttleworth with the WPOV weather forecast.
KDE/Crystal might be bloated, but there are tricks to get around that. PCLinuxOS is clear proof of this. It uses Crystal too, and it's significantly faster than Ubuntu on my machine. I have an 800MHz Celeron laptop with 320MB RAM and an i810 graphics chipset, and I can play basic games like SuperTux on PCLinuxOS/KDE/Crystal. Even on levels with lots of tiles and enemies, it still runs a solid 40FPS. On Ubuntu with GNOME, the lag's so horrible that it can scare small children.
IMO, people need to stop bitching and give both desktops a try. I keep switching back and forth between KDE and GNOME, and I've finally found a winner: its name starts with an X.
...I was debating over whether to recommend Ubuntu or Freespire to one of my classmates, but I guess I'll have to go for either Freebuntu or Ubire. Both are 1337er than *buntu and Freespire put together... Never mind, they're about the same as *buntu and Freespire put together. Plus, "Ubire" sounds like "Uber"...
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I have a one-word solution: Edubuntu.
Just install Edubuntu, make a live CD with the http://linux-live.org/ scripts, and install it to a USB drive- or a few hundred. There has to be some child-proofing software in it somewhere.
But still, the $100 laptop isn't out yet, and won't be priced at $100 for years. For now, maybe schools could hand out USB sticks with, say, SLAX (bonus: modular = easily expandable, without having to re-burn a whole CD) on them, maybe along with FireFox 2 (nobody would care if they used IceWeasel instead), GAIM 2 beta, amaroK 1.4.5, etc...
I could help. My school's IT staff will listen to me. I tried getting them to switch to the GIMP (unsuccessfully), maybe I could bounce that idea off them.
SLAX has a future. Not that other USB-based distros (i.e. MCNLive) don't...
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On Digg, it would be +100 NothingNew.
Must have been open-source... (Please forgive me.)
...they're planning to release the final this month. Like Debian Etch. ;)
Is creating your own Linux distro the new blogging? Are you to blame for DistroWatch's ballooning distribution count? Will all the feuding "developers" ever shut up? Stay tuned for another exciting, -1/troll-rated episode of... Linux-family Feud (aka "10 Good Reasons to Switch to Slackware or Arch And Just Stay There") Now, here's Mark "Thank God for Freedom of Speech" Shuttleworth with the WPOV weather forecast.
KDE/Crystal might be bloated, but there are tricks to get around that. PCLinuxOS is clear proof of this. It uses Crystal too, and it's significantly faster than Ubuntu on my machine. I have an 800MHz Celeron laptop with 320MB RAM and an i810 graphics chipset, and I can play basic games like SuperTux on PCLinuxOS/KDE/Crystal. Even on levels with lots of tiles and enemies, it still runs a solid 40FPS. On Ubuntu with GNOME, the lag's so horrible that it can scare small children. IMO, people need to stop bitching and give both desktops a try. I keep switching back and forth between KDE and GNOME, and I've finally found a winner: its name starts with an X.
...I was debating over whether to recommend Ubuntu or Freespire to one of my classmates, but I guess I'll have to go for either Freebuntu or Ubire. Both are 1337er than *buntu and Freespire put together... Never mind, they're about the same as *buntu and Freespire put together.
Plus, "Ubire" sounds like "Uber"...
I have a one-word solution: Edubuntu.
Just install Edubuntu, make a live CD with the http://linux-live.org/ scripts, and install it to a USB drive- or a few hundred. There has to be some child-proofing software in it somewhere.
Too bad... I was hoping the FSF would pwn Novell. Ah well... We can always daydream about a world without SLED... A post-apocalyptic world, probably.
But still, the $100 laptop isn't out yet, and won't be priced at $100 for years. For now, maybe schools could hand out USB sticks with, say, SLAX (bonus: modular = easily expandable, without having to re-burn a whole CD) on them, maybe along with FireFox 2 (nobody would care if they used IceWeasel instead), GAIM 2 beta, amaroK 1.4.5, etc... I could help. My school's IT staff will listen to me. I tried getting them to switch to the GIMP (unsuccessfully), maybe I could bounce that idea off them. SLAX has a future. Not that other USB-based distros (i.e. MCNLive) don't...