Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-18 Thread Russell Jones
Fred A. Miller wrote: "Users can solve that problem, though," Diedrich says, with the help of the Internet, since the Linux community is happy to provide fellow users with help. That's why Diedrich recommends going online before selecting a Linux distribution and checking out the corresponding co

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-18 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: > There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than > how nicey-nicey people are. This is very true ... ... and very wrong. At this point in time the openSUSE distro is "better" for several techni

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-18 Thread Mike McMullin
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 -0500, M Harris wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: > > There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than > > how nicey-nicey people are. > This is very true ... > > ... and very wrong. > > At this poin

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, M Harris wrote: > At this point in time the openSUSE distro is "better" for several technical > reasons than Ubuntu That is debatable. Better for what? For Ma and Pa Polyester, I would still recommend Kubuntu over suse. For a server, or a workstation for a competent

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread Russell Jones
Mike McMullin wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 -0500, M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: It's not just the warm fuzzies, it's also in how the community creates scripts for packages of non-OSS stuff or even the dread multimedia stuff, or Web-Cam s

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread Russell Jones
M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than how nicey-nicey people are. This is very true ... ... and very wrong. At this point in time the openSUSE distro is "better" fo

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread G.T.Smith
M Harris wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote: > >> There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than >> how nicey-nicey people are. >> > This is very true ... > > ... and very wrong. > > At this point in time the openSUSE dis

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 19 April 2007 05:16, G.T.Smith wrote: > In the I.T. world , the more time you spend > dealing with recalcitrant piles of silicon and metal, and either the > drivers or owners of said piles, or trying to make the things do > something sensible, or both ... the crankier one is likely to b

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:38, Russell Jones wrote: > How is it doing this? Or is it just a perception? Is it sustainable? > That is, are users going to become disillusioned when these contortions > cease, as they must if they are such? Yes, some of it is perception... that's the art of m

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread Druid
change... and chameleons are not very friendly... on the other hand take a look at the Ubuntu logo... a circle of different colored people holding hands http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/ubuntu.jpg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:01, Druid wrote: > > change... and chameleons are not very friendly...   on the other hand > > take a look at the Ubuntu logo... a circle of different colored people > > holding hands

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:01, Druid wrote: Ok, equal time <>

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread Jan Karjalainen
My mother hates lizards, she freaks out when she sees a pic of a real lizard on my SUSE desktop! :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:35, Jan Karjalainen wrote: > My mother hates lizards, she freaks out when she sees a pic of a real > lizard on my SUSE desktop!  :-) My wife too... ... the kids and I all have the "real" chameleon wallpaper (its got to the the coolest desktop ever) an

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread jfweber
On Thu April 19 2007, M Harris scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:35, Jan Karjalainen wrote: > > My mother hates lizards, she freaks out when she sees a pic of a > > real lizard on my SUSE desktop!  :-) > > My wife too... > >

Re: [opensuse] Word for all of us... [OT]

2007-04-19 Thread James Knott
M Harris wrote: > Yes, some of it is perception... that's the art of marketing. What I am > about > to say is not *critical* so please no one flame me... (nor swear at me, > please)... its just a perception point... take the icon for openSUSE (which I > love, by the way) of the little cha