I wish I could prove I am Bill Gates' 124-th cousin, and we were at least
related in the days of Neanderthal Man, so I could call him Uncle. It's not
Bill Gates paprowe, it's the consumer sentiment, it's not Microsofts' fault.
Which is why as a business Linux is a failure, Microsoft (sorry for being
obvious) is successful. There isn't even a close second to them, that is not
Microsoft's fault.
Linux is a good operating system, SuSE is my favourate (since it's
foundations were from German engineering). I work with many people that are
in the I.T. industry, and only very few of them have seen Linux, the others
have either only heard of it, and some haven't heard of it. That is not
Microsoft's fault.
- Vusta
: Vusta, you must be related to Billionaire Gates. No insult intended, but
: you gotta take into consideration all of us out here who are just getting
: darned sick and tired of having to shell out another grand or two just to
: keep up with the Gates`. I would love to keep my `puter around for 10 to
15
: years . . . THAT is why I am testing out Linux Ubuntu v7.04. Happy
: Spending!
: : >
: > Please tell what will happen when MS drops support for XP this year. The
: > vast number (the un-countable number) of XP destops on, not just the
home
: > PC's but corporate\business desktops, out number, the number of sand
: > grains
: > on the planet. That would be the envy of not just the Linux
distributors,
: > it's OK your not alone. Neither are XP users as they will supported will
: > into the end of this decade.
: >
: > Vista may not (in my opinion) enjoy the success of XP, but the next
verion
: > of Windows (code named Vienna) will. Vista seems to be (again in my
: > opinion)
: > as transition, to 64-bit computing for both the home and business. The
: > world
: > just isn't ready for it. You should know that with Linux, there have
been
: > 64-bit distro's long before Vista (SuSE to name one), but who has heard
of
: > it?
: >
: > Apple Mac on the other hand are entering there period of maturity. Now
: > their
: > hardware will run both their proprietry OS, and, hold on to your chair,
: > Windows. Linux would (*maybe*) increase it's presents if it's user's
(and
: > advocates), dropped their insistance on OpenOffice, which like Linux not
: > many people have heard of, and lobby MS to make MS Office for Linux, and
: > Internet Explorer for Linux. It's time for Linux to start playing ball
: > like
: > Mac is.
: >
: > As for hardware, I think it's great Linux will run like lightening on
: > minimal hardware. I'm sold on that, but sell it to hardware
manufactures,
: > do
: > you really think they would want that? Great for the home budget, keep
: > your
: > current home PC for 10 to 15 years, Linux will run on it.
: >
: > In brief, XP users will not be meeting up with Linux on that end of the
: > creek, neither will Vista users. I do prefer that bubble that generates
: > billions of dollars, not the poor relative.
: >
: > - Vusta
: >
: > : > : On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:52:49 -0700, XS11E wrote:
: > :
: > : >
: > : >> Well... it was that easy to boot from the CD, however on all five
: > : >> machines I tried it on (6.0.6.1, 6.10, 7.04 beta), following the
: > : >> instructions was impossible, since the screen contents were
: > : >> totally unreadable. They all had ATI graphics chips/cards.
: > : >> Now, admittedly that was only 5 out of 5...
: > : >>
: > : >> Note that I had no such problems with PCLinuxOS.
: > : >
: > : > And the religious wars begin....
: > :
: > : Sorry to burst your bubble. It points out one of the strengths of
: > Linux -
: > : CHOICE. If one distro has problems (you can usually get around them
with
: > : boot prompt 'cheatcodes') you can try another - you'll probably find
one
: > : that works quite nicely. If vista fails to install (see a recent post
: > : here) what are you going to do? And you certainly won't be installing
: > : vista on 'older hardware' - what happens when MS drops support for xp
: > : later this year? I guess you're up the creek.
: > :
: >
: >
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