It's annoyingly been available
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| Author | Content |
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| tracyanne Apr 24, 2008 3:04 PM EDT |
in the Mandriva, and I suspect PCLinuxOS Repositories for sometime. |
| nikkels Apr 24, 2008 5:47 PM EDT |
I don't understand this anymore.
I see all the time articles like " Ubuntu can now this, freespire has now this " ...now...now Is this supposed to mean how they progress or how far behind they are. I got these things for nearly a year already with PCLinuxOS. |
| tracyanne Apr 24, 2008 5:50 PM EDT |
Yeah I don't get it at all, why is it suddenly a big deal that these distros can now do something others have been doing for quite some time. |
| garymax Apr 24, 2008 7:05 PM EDT |
I thought Ubuntu was the only Linux? :-) |
| tracyanne Apr 24, 2008 7:25 PM EDT |
That explains it. |
| tuxchick Apr 24, 2008 7:47 PM EDT |
Heretics! Watch thy mouths, for the Esoteric Order of Alliterative Animals is all-seeing, all-knowing, and unforgiving. |
| garymax Apr 24, 2008 10:17 PM EDT |
I'm just waiting for Slackware 12.1 to be released...any day now...Oh joy... |
| gus3 Apr 25, 2008 6:54 AM EDT |
@garymax: I noticed a slow-down on my usual rsync server last night. I suspect the files have been put in place, just waiting for Pat's go-ahead. |
| jdixon Apr 25, 2008 8:12 AM EDT |
> I noticed a slow-down on my usual rsync server last night. Hmm. Time to check out the mirrors and the latest changelog. |
| garymax Apr 25, 2008 6:35 PM EDT |
The lull before the storm... |
| gus3 Apr 26, 2008 12:20 AM EDT |
Rats, one more Slackware security update. Good for Pat on being a stickler about these. The sad part? My former Slackware testing machine is now Dad's Solitaire machine. I'm running SLAMD64 on my desktop. But, I can at least use Pat's build scripts to get critical updates in-place before SLAMD64 publishes them. It's a small price to pay to get both my parents on Linux. |
| jdixon Apr 26, 2008 1:07 PM EDT |
> It's a small price to pay to get both my parents on Linux. I'm sure your sacrifice for the greater good will eventually be rewarded. :) |
| tracyanne Apr 26, 2008 1:56 PM EDT |
While on the subject of moving people to Linux, I now have two Linux evangalists that I'm responsible for. Ones the bloke who's teaching me guitar, and the other is a lady of 75 who absolutely loves her Mandriva Linux rig that I moved her to after her Win XP set up caught a cold, "and this new computer [that's the Linux OS not the hardware] is so much faster than the old one" - mostly that's Firefox when she's on the web. GM (Guitar man) is telling anyone who will listen that Linux fixed his old computer, and it makes his new laptop work much better than what was on it in the shop (It would he's got a whole bunch of software he would have had to pay heaps for), and Lol (Little Old Lady) is telling all her family that she's got something lots better than XP, and her Grand children want it too. Lol is writing her memoirs so she's learning how to use OO.o, and using the web for additional research. The only problem we've had on her machine was setting up her printer, a HP PhotoSmart C3180, which is really strange because it should have been connect turn on printer and wait while Linux installs the drivers (look ma hands free installs) but for some reason it didn't. Maybe it was the fact that I gave her Mandriva One, and her network connection is slow, because when I took the printer home and tried it on my laptop it was a hands free install and config, it even printed the test page without asking. But when I uninstalled the HP drivers and redid the process this time it did the install and config without any prompting from me, strange. She's also very proud of herself as she managed to book tickets over the web, her sister had been staying, so her sister could fly back to Sydney. Apparently she has owned the computer complete with Win XP for three years, and it's only now that she actually managed to do anything useful on it. |
| gus3 Apr 26, 2008 5:18 PM EDT |
Quoting:Apparently she has owned the computer complete with Win XP for three years, and it's only now that she actually managed to do anything useful on it.Her confidence level probably has something to do with that. Trusting that she isn't going to break something means she's likely to try new things, "just to see what happens." |
| Bob_Robertson Apr 27, 2008 5:18 AM EDT |
Back in December, I put Linux on a box for someone in my karate class. He never did have a chance to sit down with me to see how things worked, so after problems finding stuff, he wiped it and put XP back on it so he could play some games. Well, two weeks ago I got the machine back, with so many viruses/spyware/malware on it that it would barely boot at all. Linux is back on it now, and I refused to give it back until I could sit down and show them how loaded the machine already is. I also changed a few things, like putting all the folders for cute things like a couple of BBC documentaries, some books, music and graphics, all under "Desktop" and used KDE, so that things are as "findable" for a Windows user as possible. We'll see. |
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