From: "Kaj Haulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Don't bother looking here :
>
>
http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=104575&catId=100276&tid=100008&p=1
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> And here I thought the Aussies were bright :-(
>
> Stephen and Franki : don't you have asylums down under ?
>
> Kaj Haulrich.
The criteria were somewhat weak. But given that it was a journalist
who did the tests and installs it is fair to consider him to be more
of a talking head mentality than a technoid mentality. That is fair,
too. He was performing his tests for Aunt Tilly not for the average
highly computer literate technoid such as we are or are approaching
as a state of being.
Mandrake is not ready for Aunt Tilly. Although it does install and
come up usable. It is enough different that people used to Apples,
as I suspect is the case with the reviewer, are not going to get
along with Mandrake/KDE all that well. (I noticed he had faults
with Windows in this regard that seem a little off the mark.) I
note that the reviewer is not particularly security conscious.
Otherwise the scores would be tilted quite differently than they
were with Apple and Linux getting far higher scores than Windows.
The reviewer was a journalist (dumb about tech to begin with)
writing for Aunt Tillies.
(As an aside, if you think a journalist's review of the OSs tested
is far off base do remember that it is journalists who are largely
shaping your opinions of what is going on in the world today with
their biases and outright ignorance as a starting point. Just
contemplate the point. It's not worth debating.)
{^_-} (I rather like Linux over the years I've used and abused it.
I very much liked AmigaDOS in its day. I make my income off
Microsoft's OS. It has some nice near real time characteristics
and is the only OS supported for Matrox Digisuite cards. But
when it comes to Macs I am severely challenged to get them to
do anything but what THEY want to do. I guess I'm dumb with them
or they require a mode of thinking I'm not good at.)
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