I'm not really sure. I've just been getting around to seriously giving Linux another go, and have notice places like eWeek making broad statements about Unbuntu being popular
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DCJensen - May 09, 2008 6:39:45 am PDT #6134 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
DXMachina - May 09, 2008 6:40:09 am PDT #6135 of 25501
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
How did Ubuntu gain position from Red Hat? What changed?
Easy enough for a Linux noob like me to install it with no problems.
DCJensen - May 09, 2008 6:40:40 am PDT #6136 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hey! May 3rd was the 30th anniversary of the first Spam message.
amych - May 09, 2008 6:41:26 am PDT #6137 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Red Hat's always been marketed as enterprise (but we'll give you a personal version if you want to tinker yourself). Ubuntu was the first to really push consumer-friendly installs -- not your-clueless-mom friendly, but the people who might have thought it was a cool idea but didn't quite tip over the edge. And the Live CDs are brilliant -- not that there weren't bootable install CDs before, but the whole "try it out, play around, click one button and we won't hose your other stuff" was huge.
§ ita § - May 09, 2008 6:49:17 am PDT #6138 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the whole "try it out, play around, click one button and we won't hose your other stuff" was huge
I see that.
I'd always thought that that the Red Hat install was pretty simple. Mostly I can see the difference between Ubuntu and Debian, and totally get why Ubuntu is more popular.
§ ita § - May 09, 2008 6:49:25 am PDT #6139 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the whole "try it out, play around, click one button and we won't hose your other stuff" was huge
I see that.
I'd always thought that that the Red Hat install was pretty simple. Mostly I can see the difference between Ubuntu and Debian, and totally get why Ubuntu is more popular.
§ ita § - May 09, 2008 6:49:31 am PDT #6140 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gudanov - May 09, 2008 6:51:26 am PDT #6141 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I think Fedora and Suse are pretty easy to install these days as well. I might have to take a look at Suse 11 when it comes out.
tommyrot - May 09, 2008 6:55:01 am PDT #6142 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm tempted to install Slackware again, just for old times' sake....
Sean K - May 09, 2008 8:56:27 am PDT #6143 of 25501
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Within hours of its release, Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their PCs.
The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft's Windows XP message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.
My XP (SP3) machine *is* my Mac. I wonder if I should worry? Of course, I'm primarily using XP to play the Windows video games I own. So far I've had no problems, but really? The XP interface is so ugly and cludgy compared to Leopard, that for any use other than playing a video game, I reboot back into Leopard.
One definite upside from turning on Boot Camp and making the machine dual boot? For some reason, the computer sleeps and shuts down the hard drive over twice as fast as it did before I made it dual boot. I'm thinking it's part of the Boot Camp code, but when the machine was Leopard only, it sometimes took almost thirty seconds to sleep after closing the lid. Now it's practically instantaneous.
When I get around to pulling all the Windows files I want off of the old Windows machine, I plan on turning that into an Ubuntu box.