Positive NYT article about Dell and Ubuntu
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 6 13:19:50 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 05:32 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> All the changes you can make to Fedora and the annual new issue and
> that it is not developed to replace Windows. I know .deb has new issues
> but not as fast. And they made a version that is very easy to load. You
> NEVER need a terminal, it is all point and click.
>
> Ubuntu has a large and growing number of users. When it comes on
> Dell the user base will become really large. They may need to start a
> Ubuntu list :-)
>
A new version of Ubuntu comes out every 6 months just like Fedora. The
LTS version is so out of date it is almost unusable if you are a serious
user, as opposed to a Windows like user who just uses a browser and
office applications.
>
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