> I started with Gnome because that's what RedHat 7.3 defaulted to. I
> looked at KDE but found it too garish, and I couldn't get used to
> single-clicking where I had been accustomed to double-clicking.
Trivial settings change of course. SUSE has always defaulted to
double-clicking.
Once I was
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:18 +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
>
> Both had
> some exposure to Windows, and I think that Gnome would have been too
> different for them to cope with.
I started with Gnome because that's what RedHat 7.3 defaulted to. I
looked at KDE but found it too garish, and I co
Wesley Parish wrote:
As long as Harvard Business School keeps its eyes on the West and in
particular the US, they'll ignore the growth of F/LOSS in BRICK (Brazil,
Russia, India, China, and Korea) and other such places. Microsoft is going
to be blindsided.
If FF2 is the benchmark and IE7 is
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:16, you wrote:
> OK, new thread.
>
> I've had 3 people now come onboard using the GNOME desktop on Ubuntu
> that have been, shall we say "less enthusiastic", about Linux.
d00d!!! LoL OMG KDE is teh R0x0rz. Don't cHuuz Gn0Me lol n00b!
Err, what I meant to say was, I prefer
Yeah I was thinking of it... But from a ssh connection there's not a lot of
difference :)
-Original Message-
From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ugh, don't ask. Too late. Seeing as you're mentioning vmware, how about
having multiple copies of that, one per distro? That way, w
Its okay - horse is a server not a desktop... So we should be having a
server distro war :)
-Original Message-
From: Vik Olliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't want to start a Desktop distro war, but I'm having great results ..
oh heck, new thread.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 9:16 pm, Vik Olliver wrote:
> I've had 3 people now come onboard using the GNOME desktop on Ubuntu
> that have been, shall we say "less enthusiastic", about Linux.
>
> Good news. I tried them on the KDE/Kubuntu desktop instead, and found a
> much greater degree of satisfa
On 10/22/2006, "Andrew Errington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Both had
>some exposure to Windows, and I think that Gnome would have been too
>different for them to cope with.
>
There are those who will say in response to this "get those poor people
away from MS-like User Interfaces, give th
Vik Olliver wrote:
Having seen this, I'm tempted to ask for official policy to be a KDE
desktop initially, with both installed. But I'd like to know if some
groups of people are or are not better starting off with an Ubunutu
desktop vs. a Kubuntu one?
Gnome is a bit more like Mac OS. So people co
On 17/10/06, Roy Britten wrote:
Ultimately, the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced
from the battlefield—Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers
too many benefits for users. But there are strategies each can use
successfully against the other, as they detail in this e-
On 22/10/06, Vik Olliver wrote:
Having seen this, I'm tempted to ask for official policy to be a KDE
desktop initially, with both installed. But I'd like to know if some
groups of people are or are not better starting off with an Ubunutu
desktop vs. a Kubuntu one?
I always advise linux newbies
> I'm thinking of redeploying horse to a guest machine on a vmware server.
>
> Does anyone have a preferred distro for horse?
Ugh, don't ask. Too late. Seeing as you're mentioning vmware, how about
having multiple copies of that, one per distro? That way, when we have
the next distro fight, we al
OK, new thread.
I've had 3 people now come onboard using the GNOME desktop on Ubuntu
that have been, shall we say "less enthusiastic", about Linux.
Good news. I tried them on the KDE/Kubuntu desktop instead, and found a
much greater degree of satisfaction. Not to put too fine a point on it,
they
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 17:40 +1300, Craig FALCONER wrote:
> Does anyone have a preferred distro for horse? I'd prefer debian, but
> comments are welcome.
Currently I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed off Server ISOs, and
they're behaving well. Running LAMP, with the Kubuntu-flavoured KDE
desktop f
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