begin quoting Doug LaRue as of Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:21:33PM -0700: > ** 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.
So far as I'm concerned, 2005 *is* new. And you really need to grow a sense of humor. [snip] > > X handles networking? > are you serious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System But I don't WANT my display system to include my network stack! -- I don't think that what you meant to imply is what was inferred. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
