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Disappointment with Linux 2844
Roy Schestowitz That's a nice overview for people that are relatively new to linux. Although judging by the comments not everyone agree with everything that is said...
Disappointment with Linux 2845
Roy Schestowitz What gives anybody here 'credentials' to post in an advocacy group? RedHat Linux 5.0 and 6.0 Mandrake (can't remember the version...
Disappointment with Linux 2846
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lobo wrote on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:28:22 GMT Is it? Hardware vendors respond to demand, and almost everyone has Windows...
Disappointment with Linux 2847
Lobo on Friday 31 March 2006 04:12 It is; But one can always select the pieces that are known to work with Linux. If Linux only accounts...
Disappointment with Linux 2848
I got a Xerox Phaser 3400 to print at work, and an HP Laserjet 4p at home. I didn't test it on the inkjet here, but I'm sure it works. What I had trouble...
Disappointment with Linux 2849
Lobo on Thursday 30 March 2006 15:26 My experience with fixing Windows box is very discouraging. It involves many uninteresting perils. Long hours spent running processes that 'fix' something or...
Disappointment with Linux 2850
snips On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:58:58 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine Just as a FYI, a what-the-hell, whatever you want to call it. The place...
Disappointment with Linux 2851
Well, I know you guys have an excuse for everything, so that is not such a surprising atbreastude, but there is really nothing Mr. Softee can do to physically force anyone to use Windows. They...
Linux is not even a contender for average Joe and his desktop................ 2852
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:57:54 +0000, Brett Caton Perhaps they simply don't need help remotely as often as Windows people...
Linux is not even a contender for average Joe and his desktop................ 2853
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:54:13 +0000, BearItAll Sites with activex perhaps? In which case it would...
Linux is not even a contender for average Joe and his desktop................ 2854
Hi Cory... this looks much like an obvious troll attempt but you do make some points: Cory Dyvik Apple has their own OS-X which they will...
Any decent installers for Linux 2855
snips On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:48:44 +0000, Ian Semmel So where's the default menu entry in Windows for nslookup? Doesn't seem to exist. In fact, there are entire slews of applications...
Any decent installers for Linux 2856
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:55:20 +1000, Kelsey Bjarnason Yes, despite what the "advocates" say, windows does have a command line...
Any decent installers for Linux 2857
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:18:00 +0000, Ian Semmel It do, indeed. It's sad, pathetic, and limp, but it does exist. :) Dunno. Someone upstream is whimpering about apps not being on the...
Any decent installers for Linux 2858
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:43:46 +0000, M As a scripting engine, it *really...
Any decent installers for Linux 2859
Op Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:17:27 -0800, schreef Larry Qualig: Um, every pre-existing GUI package I install on my Mandriva 2006 system automatically gets its own start menu entry. And if...
Any decent installers for Linux 2860
Richard G. Riley enlightened us with this load of crap: That primitive one in the Control Panel? Nope. All use RPM on a system based on it. Actually, Synaptic...
Any decent installers for Linux 2861
What do we win? The opportunity to install stuff in non-standard locations where nobody can figure out what happened? What are you rambling about? It isn't "blind", there are conventions for these things! LINUX...
Any decent installers for Linux 2862
Bob"posted the following on 2006-03-04: So, you like monolithic directory hierarchies? Do you not install things to other physical drives sometimes? You seem under the misapprehension that...
Any decent installers for Linux 2863
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Mar 2006 02:10:59 GMT, I realise that others have pointed out that the...
Any decent installers for Linux 2864
They seem to work fine for me. I rely on the package manager to keep track of which files go with what package. Not very much...
Any decent installers for Linux 2865
Linønut"posted the following on 2006-03-04: I love you guys. You snip, rant and mispresent. What does that idiot Kohlman think with "there are no physical drives". Is he...
Any decent installers for Linux 2866
Richard G. Riley Oh, but it is. Very much so. A user can't just say "I want to store it on drive D or E" like he would in wintendo Even if he knows...
Any decent installers for Linux 2867
Bob Hauck There's much more to it than 'where' something gets installed. Although I find it hard to believe that you've never had...
Any decent installers for Linux 2868
Let's not pretend it is trivial to do that on Windows. Just putting the app on a share does not make it work properly. Usually the end-user still has to run an installer...
Any decent installers for Linux 2868 plus 1
Ian"posted the following on 2006-03-05: I buttume nothing of the sort. Why do you insist on telling people what they think or expect? I certainly dont want Linux to be...
Any decent installers for Linux 2870
It often isn't. It's only in a menu entry if (1) it is a GUI program, (2) and the package builder did...
Any decent installers for Linux 2871
I didn't realize that the second part was still addressing the problem. It is indeed a way to make...
Any decent installers for Linux 2872
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:14:54 -0500, DFS It isn't. It's better. And different. So? And? If you have a point apart from the...
Any decent installers for Linux 2873
Explain exactly what the harm is in the installer printing a simple one line sentence like...
Any decent installers for Linux 2874
Peter Köhlmann So have you never heard of an installer simply telling the user what it just installed? Users shouldn't have to go and *locate* an...
Any decent installers for Linux 2875
Ruel"posted the following on 2006-03-03: Except for the fact you are wrong. Things get put in many other places. But the option is a *bad* thing? Nothing. For that part. And...
Any decent installers for Linux 2876
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:41:27 -0800, Larry Qualig The problem with simply reporting, without applying any critical thought...
Any decent installers for Linux 2877
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:36:19 -0800, Larry Qualig Define "right". As the aforementioned polls were also "done right", simply...
Any decent installers for Linux 2878
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:01:40 -0800, Larry Qualig Allow me to re-post, since you obviously...
Any decent installers for Linux 2879
Kelsey Bjarnason There is nothing anywhere in the article, pro or con Linux that attempts to provide details, context...
Any decent installers for Linux 2880
snips On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:58:59 -0600, JEDIDIAH Gads, if only that were true. Don't know the state of affairs now, but I...
Too late! Window hasta la vista 5308 is now fully operational. 2881
On 25 Feb 2006 20:01:43 -0800, Rex Ballard Oh, here we go again. When Windows 95 was releaed, most of those tools...
Easy Ubuntu 2883
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 30 Mar 2006 07:58:19 -0800 And how would "they" do that? Be specific. Of course one problem I personally have with this Linux "easy to...
Easy Ubuntu 2884
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 30 Mar 2006 10:34:18 -0800 The best of what? In my opinion, the...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2885
I am not interested in the semantic battle over whether you call it an evolution or a revolution...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2886
snips On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 20:56:47 -0800, Snit Nothing at all that was in any way, shape or form new, novel or interesting; all they did was stuff that had long been done before...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2887
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:37:38 -0700, Snit I snipped irrelevancies. Long before Apple got in the game, you could buy...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2888
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:08:56 -0700, Oxford Sure. The question at hand, though, is not whether I can move my mp3s to an iPod, but whether I can move my tunes I buy...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2889
but you are failing to explain why you would ever need to do something so retro. If you want, move them back to MP3 nobody is stopping you. but you need to figure...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2890
Oxford Prove it. Remember, popularity is not an indicator of quality (else Windows would be...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2891
all reviews of all ipods prove my point, the ipod is the best "music player...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2892
Oxford I don't want to use an iPod. Why the *hell* would I want to carry around yet another...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2893
snips On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:28:34 -0500, TheLetterK tunes, complete with full decoding-decrypting ability... then turns around and says "Whoops, based the decoder on GPL. Here's the source, boys and girls." :) "Those...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2894
snips On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:37:33 +0100, Sandman There's an old poem, origins unclear, and of which there are many variations. The basics of...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2895
snips On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:22:31 -0700, Snit First, you quoted 220 lines to fail to respond to any of the points therein. Don't do that. Second...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro
You have also stated: ----- For me, until OSX goes open source, from the kernel to the GUI and all the bells...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2897
snips On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:45:25 -0700, Snit Indeed. Very much so. You also seem unable to tell two concepts apart. An OS and an application, for example. Really...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2898
snips On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:40:43 -0700, Snit You're right; I do fail to...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro
You speak as though they are your religion. I have no problem with you doing so, but do not pretend that you select such things on their...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2900
Intrinsic merit? LOL! Do you even know what the hell that means, Snit? Who the...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro
Gee, your religious fervor still shows. And you are still hiding your head in the sand as you repeatedly snip the following so you can focus...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2903
snips On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:16:14 -0500, TheLetterK And McDonald's would be higher quality than 5-star restaurants...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2905
Kelsey Bjarnason I don't know. If I was going to make such a thing, I would probably start by buttigning a...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2906
yes, but you missed the chapters of the story when all this was being hammered out, the final agreement was far less restrictive than anything the RIAA originally wanted, OR any previous agreements. So what...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2908
snips On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:00:54 -0500, TheLetterK That seems to be the line Snit is offering. Or maybe it's Oxtard. Whichever. Something about "See how...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2909
five different machines at any one time, infinite number of ipods at any one time, seems fair enough. a playlist takes what, less than a half a second to create, so no barrier there, then...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2910
snips On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:39:55 -0700, Oxford By whose definition of "fair"? Again, I bought it, I paid for...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2911
by any "reasonable" definition, please think Kelsey... yes, I know you are ethically perfect so there should be an exception for "you", but fact is, a good 80% of the people would share files...
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