> My personal opinion is that Mandrake is a broken, broken distro. It is > easy to use, though. And my opinion stems from personaly using ver. > 7.2, so perhaps 8.0 has gotten better. Shame that. I guess it depends on hardware. I tried 5 different Linuces, and chose Mandrake for it's overall stability and 'hang-together'. I'm tempted to try Redmond Linux and Best Linux, and see if they live up to their promise. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timm Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 14:40 Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Re: CPRM in BIOS > David McNab wrote: > > > From: "Seth Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> http://www.slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml > >> http://pcsupport.about.com/compute/pcsupport/library/weekly/aa030101a.htm > >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17230.html > > > > > > Looks like the copy protection 'arms race' is set to flare up like never > > before. > > > > The copy-protection advocates, like IBM, 4C, BSA, RIAA etc will do > > everything in their power and bloated budgets to lull the consumer into 'pay > > per view', and accepting all levels of privacy violation and suppression of > > intellectual freedom. > > > > Thank goodness that universities, as opposed to (say) cable companies, > > masterminded the birth of the internet. Their legacy of freedom of > > information will prove hard to defeat, but the 'information capitalists' are > > determined and extremely well funded. It's going to be one helluva fight. > > > > I can envisage future versions of Windows which will firewall any > > non-standard internet traffic (blocking protocols not approved by M$, > > including Freenet), and which will require constant phoning home to > > Micro$oft to keep tabs on users. > > > > I can also see a heavy thrust towards 'web-ware', software which will simply > > not run without the cooperation of central servers. > > > > The first step in this is the new Windows XP and Office XP, which shut down > > unless they are 'activated' via phoning home to M$. Soon, the only operating > > system available with new computers will be XP. (I bet the cracking scene > > has already found a workaround to this:) ) > > > > I guess the key to victory here is to make all efforts to keep the public > > suspicious of the content industry - a process of education, from the > > grassroots level of telling all one's friends and acquaintances, through to > > larger-scale activism. Encouraging people to switch to Linux and free > > software in general. > > > > Optimistically, though, I can see Linux becoming so user-friendly that it > > will ultimately emerge as the operating system of choice, with the majority > > of PC buyers saying no to windows and promptly installing linux. Mandrake is > > a leader in usable linux, with their 8.0 version delivering a class act in > > ease of installation and usage. Not *too* far to go before Linux is truly > > fit for mass consumption - 18 months perhaps? > > > My personal opinion is that Mandrake is a broken, broken distro. It is > easy to use, though. And my opinion stems from personaly using ver. > 7.2, so perhaps 8.0 has gotten better. > > The biggest problem with getting a GNU/Linux for the masses is being > able to walk into a store like Best Buy or CompUSA, see a box running > GNU/Linux, and take it home. The hard part of GNU/Linux is just setting > it up; after that, it just works. Your Aunt Louise probably couldn't > even set up Windows from a bare hard disk, so why would we expect her to > be able to set up GNU/Linux. > > Once I see GNU/Linux boxes sitting on the shelf at Best Buy, I will know > that we have won. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat > _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
