** Reply to message from SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:52:02 -0700
> > > Do I feel like fighting with a desktop machine to do my > > > browsing / email / etc? > > > > I'm thinking you've not really tried Linux in the past few years > > or at least not Ubuntu. > > Embrace teh shiny. just exactly is this supposed to mean, "Embrace the shiny"? Do you think Ubuntu is new and shiny and that is why people use it? If so, I've had it on atleast one of my machines since 5.04 and experimented with it since 4.10 in 2004 or 2005. Ran Debian before that and RedHat, Caldera, and Corel before that. Ubuntu is only new if you've not been around much. > The convergence of the average Linux GUI environment with the MSWindows > GUI environment is one (1) of the things that annoys me, and might well > have the potential to drive me away from Linux. > > Thank goodness there are enough obnoxious geeks to keep that from > happening, at least for the near term. yup, good to have choices if you know what you are doing and how to do it. > X handles networking? are you serious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System Doug -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
