Posted on 07/08/2009 8:57:44 AM PDT by Willie Green
I started with RH and still use RHEL on servers. A couple years ago, I switched to Ubuntu. I’ve since moved to Mint, which is the most polished and most ‘it just works’ of all the Linux distros I’ve used.
If Google wants to do an OS, good on them, but I wouldn’t want the invasion into my privacy that would surely come along with it.
Unless, it made Compiz work with 3 monitors and Xinerama. Then, I’d be forced to install it immediately.
If Google wants to do an OS, good on them, but I wouldn’t want the invasion into my privacy that would surely come along with it.
I couldn't agree more.
I finally escaped the MS monopoly about a year-and-a-half ago.
Although I applaud Google for taking them on, I'm leery of the global adware that Google may embed in their system.
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I agree. Did I read recently that Obama was colluding with Google to "gather" information?
Willie? That you? Get tired of the childishness on LP? Welcome back!
Hey,....I was first...:LOL!
Yours is a good, related article Ernie.
But I don't think it goes far enough in mentioning the Linux alternative.
BTW, I don't know how the author came up with this assertion:
Who are you going to trust and believe in? The noncommercial Ubuntu Foundation (and wider project), which has developed an open-source operating system second to none and virtually ended the Linux distribution wars?
Ubuntu based distros certainly deserve praise for their contribution to the Linux community.
But I think it's way too premature to declare that all the other non-Ubuntu distros have dropped out of the race.
From what I can see, the competition is healthier than ever!
Willie? That you? Get tired of the childishness on LP? Welcome back!
But what the heck... the marxists control the WH and both houses of Congress
and I figure the GOP isn't gonna get rid of them without knowing how to use a pitchfork.
I've beeen trying the latest OpenSolaris offereing and am impressed....runs well on my lowend X2 2 gig machine....as a Browser machine.
Has issues of course,...Flash and codecs have to be installed....Mint and Sabayon are tough targets,.
xubuntu here
....runs well on my lowend X2 2 gig machine....as a Browser machine.
You call that "low end"???
Holy smoke... when I made the switch last year, I dumped Win '98 off my 233 Mhz Pentium MMX with 256 Mb RAM.
The only reason I shelled out $40 to "upgrade" to a used PIII-800 w/256 Mb RAM was so I could watch the YouTubes.
I've tried several different distros.
Spent most of my time with a fluxbox version of PCLinuxOS, but I'm currently running Mint 6 "Felicia" Fluxbox CE.
Trying to get up the courage to install Archlinux.
I figure it should be a good learning experience: no pain, no gain! LOL!
I just did a clean install of KUbuntu 9.04 on my other hard drive. Being pretty much a know-nothing about Linux but what I scare up at KUbuntu forums (when I have a problem), why would I like Mint better? (I’m always interested in that which is not Microsoft or Macintosh.)
With Mint, you have less of the hassle associated with setting up the machine. You can install Mint and fire up the browser to Youtube and Flash just works. You can listen to Real streams or WM streams right away too, without any tweaking or hair-pulling. Mint also uses Gnome instead of KDE. I started with KDE as well, but looking back, I’d say it was an impediment to the switch. I never was able to really get comfortable with it the way I took to Gnome. Of course, I know KDE has improved in the years since, but I’m still partial to Gnome these days. Mint’s also an off-shoot of Ubuntu, so for 85% of problems you have, the Ubuntu forums will still answer your questions. Mint, IMHO, is also better looking out of the box.
My last Ubuntu install was the happiest I had been with my computer since I could remember...once I got everything the way I wanted it. But then, there would be situations where I wouldn’t want to deal with upgrades, because they might bork things that I didn’t have time to deal with for whatever reason. With Mint, that problem is gone. and I’m even happier. I’ve got an XP installation running in Virtualbox seamless mode for all the Windows apps that I just have to have and if I have to do anything major, like 3d rendering in 3ds Max, I can boot into Windows, which I’ve set up to use all the same open source apps that I use on Linux: Thunderbird, Firefox, Azureus, etc. I set their data up on a shared fat32 partition, so that I can pick up right where I left off no matter which OS I’m using. I still hate going back to Windows. Ruins my whole day when I do... :)
Presumably Google’s key twist will be, in true Google form, quietly gathering all the information they can about users, usage, data, etc. so they can aggregate, leverage, and sell it.
It’s definitely low end nowadays. I just built an X2 as an HTPC, 2gig system with onboard Geforce 8200 with HDMI. Board and processor cost me $120 shipped to the door. I may have to end up adding another video card to it in SLI mode to make it play HD, but I’ll worry about that after I figure out how the hell to get Linux to put sound through the HDMI.
I just priced out an AMD quad core for a friend and I found that I could do a pretty respectable system for well under $400.
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