Eric Boutilier wrote
Glynn Foster wrote:
Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to
become the Linux distribution of choice? ...
Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is.
(Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge advantage.)
Sorry. I
Jake Maciejewski wrote:
Nvidia provides Solaris drivers (do you still have to hack the PCI ID?)
Not in the current release version (unless you buy a video card newer than
the driver).
but unless I'm missing something, ATI barely supports Linux much less Solaris
(would open source drivers wor
On 2/1/06, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> >Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to
> >become the Linux distribution of choice? ...
> >
>
> Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is.
Money alone does not buy success, plus I doubt he invested
Hey,
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:43 -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> >Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to
> >become the Linux distribution of choice? ...
> >
>
> Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is.
>
> (Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge adv
I agree with 1 and 3, but not really with 2 and 4.
Solaris has different versions of tools to maintain backwards compatibility
(particularly with BSD-based SunOS) and comply with various standards. Linux
distributions care very little about backwards compatibility and try to support
POSIX to th
Yes it would be but Ubuntu is a much better choice because of the following:
1. far more drivers, e.g.: native driver from ATI
2. single set of tools, you don't get different versions of ls, m4, awk--it's
all gnu--and an extensive pkg-get software base; far better than blastwave.org
3. better lapt
Glynn Foster wrote:
Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to
become the Linux distribution of choice? ...
Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is.
(Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge advantage.)
Eric
I don't want to start a debate about security, but it comes at a price for any
OS. Linux, Solaris, and the BSDs should all be secure enough for desktop use
with nothing listening by default.
Looking Glass looks neat, but I wonder if it would be usable without 3D
acceleration. Nvidia provides So
