On a sunny day (Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:18:59 -0700 (PDT)) it happened YKhan
wrote in
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I've had it permanently installed on my desktop since version 5.10,
too. Meanwhile it's been permanently installed on my laptop since 8.10
(after I upgraded the disk to 160GB). I now find myself using mainly
Ubuntu on the laptop, but the desktop still needs a few apps running
on Windows -- that'll be fixed soon enough once I figure the
Virtualbox out. So John C. welcome to the party.

Yousuf Khan

Dvorak Likes Linux - Lab Notes by ExtremeTech
"Every so often I take a stab at Linux, to see exactly what I like and
do not like about the OS. Many of its problems, for me, stem from its
inability to run on my overloaded hardware, or the occasional driver
that makes the OS impossible to use without hand-tweaking something or
other. That said, I seriously like the Ubuntu 8.10 implementation and
will now install it permanently on my latest machines. It's a winner.
"
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2342869,00.asp

A little bit of caution against Linux.
As a 12 year Linux users, well from SLS distro kernel-0.98??? or so,
maybe more then 12 years now, lately I have become a bit - let's say
'****ed' with the Linux stuff.
Mainly because things continuously break due to required 'upgrading' of packages,
and also because of market protection (and that is related to my first point)
by the various distros,
and I need to point out that I've read bubuntu's boss is a billionaire...
is he pushing their products....
I have never tried bubuntoe and very likely never will.
In retrospect the best distro I ever had was Slackware.
RatHead was the first with using incompatibility to bind people to
their systems, Suse was good but is having sex with MS, and is there sabotage going on?
And the kernel is getting different every release, filesystems break (ext4),
and good things are not put into - and bad things are put into that kernel.
Systems are changed from version X.x to Y.z so nothing works anymore, gnu
software, that was some sort of sign for 'it will work', breaks, it is a MESS.
All that to make a commercial product so you have to buy a complete distro.
If you ever need to upgrade, then you need to buy new hardware too.
Business has discovered Linux.
Time for something new.
And this from somebody who is still pro-linux.
You can quote me on this [if you work for MS also quote that MS sucks even more].

Maybe my spellchecker is right, it want to replace 'distro' with 'bistro'.
the objective should be: An OS that is reliable, simple, small, fast, has
no data loss, and interface standards / APIs that stay the same or at least
compatible over many generations.
The objective cannot be to change everything every version and then also for every
version of every distro, maybe better run a bistro.

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