Positive NYT article about Dell and Ubuntu
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Oct 6 14:05:44 UTC 2007
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:49 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:08 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>>
>>
>>> At this rate it starts to seem, considering that eventually someone I
>>> know will get one of these and expect the level of meddling I can do for
>>> Fedora, that perhaps one can no longer practically avoid getting
>>> experienced with The Debian Way as well as the Redhat Way...
>>>
>> Back when, Esau sold his birthright for some "red meat pottage".
>> (Gen-25:30-34) I had high hopes that Fedora would be the "Windows
>> Killer" and that the likes of Dell, Hp, etc. would all be on the
>> bandwagon. Alas Yoric, it'll be .deb. instead. Ric
>>
>>
> I recently put Ubuntu 7.4 on one of my machines in order to see the
> Ubuntu (Debian way). Synaptic has some advantages over yum based
> installers but all in all using Ubuntu makes me feel like I am in a box.
> I am still stuck not being able to add an alternate repository to my
> repository list. So far adding software resolves itself to compiling
> rather than finding the equivalent binary rpm.
> --
>
Aaron your NOT a Windows person. A Windows person likes to see a box
that already has all he/she will ever want. They want to USE WHAT THEY
HAVE. You want to be able to change at will almost anything.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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