Re: Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

[Susan Cragin]

Wine has its advocates, and I'm one of them. It's good if you want to run ONE BIG application, and run it fast, and you know the limitations of wine. I run Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I've given speed and accuracy demonstrations to Dragon's developers, and they said "Wow." The program doesn't run perfectly, and it crashes occasionally, but while it's running it's great. Most wino-philes just run World of Warcraft. I understand the allure of running WOW on wine. But I'd never use it to run something where all features have to work and speed doesn't count. -Original Message-
> I never use Wine - if you really need Windows software run it in> VitualBox running windows.



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Re: Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

[beejunk]

On Oct 28, 2009 5:53am, aYo Binitie  wrote:






I never use Wine - if you really need Windows software run it in
VitualBox running windows. The truth is that most Windows users are
bound to habit and really expect Windowlike behaviour from a different
OS. I found the differences in using Ubuntu a bit iffy at forst but,
was so discouraged but my Windows experience that I percevered. Thank
goodness for that. I sometimes cannot believe how much of an Ubuntu
evangelist I have become


I agree. Most Windows users have become blind to the fact that Windows,  
compared to Ubuntu, is actually a much harder system to learn. It's just  
that they all learned Windows out of necessity and are now used to it. They  
call it easy to use, I call it 'Microsoft forcing you to deal with their  
crap."
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Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

[aYo Binitie]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Viktor Mastoridis
wrote:

> I love it towards the end when he says something like "No one on ubuntu
>> should ever type code in a terminal" :)
>>
>
> Yes, but also the Wine thing: wine? too complicated, I wouldn't bother. But
> the then one guy in the comments says: how much time do you guys spend on
> finding, downloading, installing, updating and generally dealing with a
> proper (paid) anti-virus and firewall?
>
>
> Enlightening
>
>
> VM
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I never use Wine - if you really need Windows software run it in VitualBox
running windows. The truth is that most Windows users are bound to habit and
really expect Windowlike behaviour from a different OS. I found the
differences in using Ubuntu a bit iffy at forst but, was so discouraged but
my Windows experience that I percevered. Thank goodness for that. I
sometimes cannot believe how much of an Ubuntu evangelist I have become
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Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

[Viktor Mastoridis]

>
> I love it towards the end when he says something like "No one on ubuntu
> should ever type code in a terminal" :)
>

Yes, but also the Wine thing: wine? too complicated, I wouldn't bother. But
the then one guy in the comments says: how much time do you guys spend on
finding, downloading, installing, updating and generally dealing with a
proper (paid) anti-virus and firewall?


Enlightening


VM
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Re: [LAU] Ubuntu and Linux & Open Source mentioned on BBC - this is getting big

[Q]

Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/10/24_hours_with_ubuntu.html
> 
> I thought I share this with you guys. It was on the BBC main page today.
> 
> Started as announcing Ubuntu's new release (9.10) on BBC, but goes on 
> about Open Source in general, pros and contras.
> 
> The second article has some quite enlightening responses from a wide 
> array of computer readers - really interesting stuff to read.
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I spotted that this morning. I seem to recall at least one previous 
release of Ubuntu being mentioned on the BBC News website -- I can't 
remember whether or not it featured on the main page or just featured in 
the Technology section. It might well have been the main page as I don't 
often bother looking at Technology stories (usually yawnorama city about 
Apple).

I can't make my mind up whether it was more, or less, likely to be 
featured on the main page with it being so soon after the launch of 
Windows 7 -- either way, it's good that it's getting high profile coverage.

Perhaps it's time for me to upgrade from 8.04...

Q

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