Eva's Useful Guide to Ubuntu 9.10

This appears to be very useful for those trying the Karmaic version of Ubuntu....aka 9.10.

I have Mint Helena 32 bit ( which is based on 9.10 ) running and seems very good so far . I plan to look thru this Eva Guide .

After 60 years UNIX (aka linux) still cannot come out of the box and install itself and give a user one double-click access to email

Until it does (which it never will because Linux geeks need to feel so much more superior than everyone else) it will never be THE operating system the world uses.

And I am a software engineer- i KNOW it is superior operating system to windows, technically.

Linux has been hovering around 3% market share for years. It makes a good Live CD rescue disk if you can find one that will boot on your machine.

because Linux geeks need to feel so much more superior than everyone else

Please don't include me in that group....I just prefer to NOT do all the work to keep Malware off of my system and I just enjoy looking at operating systems.....

After 60 years UNIX (aka linux)

OK. Whatever.

One of my favorite vintage Dilbert strips.

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I dunno... I installed Fedora Core 9 (and since upgraded through 10 to 11) with no more hassle than a stock install of Windows XP.

I don’t recall Ubuntu being any more difficult than that.

Now, folks who buy Dells, Gateways, or Apples are used to not doing the install themselves at all (pre-installed Windows or OS X), so this may seem cumbersome, but I don’t see an appreciable difference in the install and “get going” process for any of them.

That’s a classic Dilbert and my favorite.

Well Mr. K, obviously you haven't tried Ubuntu or, better yet(although not touted as loudly as Ubuntu), Mint. Both of these systems install with most of what you need to run, email or anything else, without ever going to a terminal to type unless a person desires to do so. I can run most of the windows aps I can't get for linux(which is not the fault of linux)with wine, play all my old games that I like, run the equivalent of office or, through wine, run office itself.

All of the office docs that I made on XP run just fine in the Open Office of linux, as for a double click to your email right out of the box that is also possible and, in fact, I run the same email on both linux and XP.

Your prejudist of Linux is not due to facts based on modern versions of linux, but on versions that were in existence as few as 2 years ago.

Not only is linux superior technically, it is superior in all ways but one, that one is the fault of software manufacturers not wanting to make progs for linux due to fear of MS retalitation.

Linux is an open source program, it installs ALL of your drivers, sees ALL of your hardware and stuff works when it finishes installing, especially Mint, which, in my opinion, is a better version of Ubuntu.

People don't run linux to feel superior, they run linux because it is virtually virus free, and things work on it, in short people use linux for much the same reasons that apple users use Apple products, to get away from MS and their heavy hand on the computer industry.

After 60 years UNIX (aka linux) still cannot come out of the box and install itself and give a user one double-click access to email.

Gotta disagree with you there. I just loaded Ubuntu on a box in my basement and was on the internet within five minutes of final installation. It used to have Linux Mint and I overwrote it with Ubuntu.

My kids were playing online video games within an hour.

I use Ubuntu for our internet boxes and would use it for my image processing machine if there was a Linux version of Photoshop (WINE doesn't quite hack it for running Windows PS in Linux), but I wish to Hell they'd give up on the cutsey-poo version names: the numbers are enough and I can never remember if Reckless Rodent comes before or after Winsome Wallaby.

How close does Gimp come?

And I thought I read there was another one that someone said had Layers...whatever that does for one.

That is just so wrong, on so many levels. lol

ALL distributions of any Debian based .nix (and Debian is the widest in use) come with the Evolution Suite pre-installed. ONE CLICK to start ‘er up, enter your provider’s info, your account info, and your on your way.

Evolution is an Open Source competitor to Microsoft’s Outlook Suite, with full Calendaring, Contacts, Tasks, Collaboration, etc.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 can’t do that, because they don’t even come with an email client (MS wants to suck you into their “Live Mail” bs).

As well, there is a plethora of email clients (and servers) available for FREE, from the “select and run” Software Center or, through the synaptic package manager. Choices. Choices. Choice. FREE. FREE. FREE.

As for the superiority, well, just be glad we aren’t Mac-nuts. LOL

Winsome Wallaby

LOL!

I just remember the numbers.

After 60 years UNIX (aka linux) ...

Some more accuracy in this subject area counts. :) Unix "escaped" from AT&T Bell Labs in the 1970's. That would be around 35+ years ago, not 60 years. Linux was released by Linus Torvalds to the USENET newsgroup comp.os.minix in late August 1991. That would be 18 or so years ago, not 60 years.

Well,...we do have this...from a Blog: Polar Bears and Penguins

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Friday, November 6, 2009

What if...Linux had it's own Commandments?

Sometimes we in the Linux "world" get a bit carried away with a piece of software. We get into out little geek niches and form clubs and setup forums. We have fun with it. Sometimes though, we get a bit "too" carried away. When you live in a digital world and you begin to spend too much time online, the line between reality and virtual reality can get hazy.

"If Linux were a great and demanding God of OS's, what might it demand from us?" is a topic I saw recently. I immediately had to have fun with this.

1) Thou shall worship no distro before me.

Behold that the distro is the messenger and it is the message they carry that is to be focused on, not the messengers themselves. I am the one and only OpenSource OS and the distros but carry my message in all variety of possible uses to the world.

2) Thou shall "tweak" thy install.

Lo my devs are good and righteous, but not even their splendid ( or otherwise) displays shall be so eminent that thou ( the end user) may not alter your install to your wishes, this is my promise to you.

3) Thou shall not demand instant gratification for free.

I give thee a gift called "search" use it wisely and harass not others to do for you that which you can do for yourself.

4) Beware of capitalists bearing promises.

My gifts are for all the world to use and no one, regardless of the riches they bring and the splendors they promise, shall intervene. Step not lightly into their house, for it is a gilded cage.

5) Take thyself not too seriously.

These digital wonders are not the periphery of life. Strange and incredible things lay beyond your front door. Lo I shall call it "outside". Go and explore this "outside" and let not your faces pale or your wrists ache there.

OK, I could only think of five instead of ten. I still think it's a tremendously funny thing to take some digitized code so seriously as to place it in the same arena as a deity.

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Friday, November 6, 2009

What if...Linux had it's own Commandments?