And I forgot to mention apple.... Their celebrity miracle worker is no less then Jean-Claude Van Damme. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000241/> As with all apple technology pushes, this is mostly a joint marketing effort pushing technology originated in 1984. (hint search for 1984 in JCVD link)
On 10/19/07, CM Banker <csf006+brlug at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ain't Open source grand... > > > I've never tried SuSe but I understand that their upgrade process > improved markedly when they hired on David > Hassllehoff<http://www.hasselhoff.com/>to hold his hands on the machine that > burns the CDs. He apparently absorbs > all of the hassle from the process. Suse <http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/>are > new wave trend setters. > > In response to this new technique, Microsoft fired up their OS effort on > WindowsXPNextGen > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob> and started the typical > pro-microsoft > marketing campaign <http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/>. > > I understand Mark Shuttleworth is consulting with both Steven Seagal > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyflash/76054061/>and Chuck > Norris<http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/>to assist in "eliminating" all > trouble with ubuntu upgrades. > > Seriously, My children finished upgrading their boxen to Ubuntu 7.10 - no > CD; just a simple command. As it was network based, it only took a couple > of hours per box. > > > > > Happy Friday... > > -Craig > > > On 10/18/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > > > Cool. It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster. > > > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: > > > [Suse was] smart enough to resolve all the package > > > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent > > packages > > > in the new version. An hour and a half later, I rebooted to find an > > > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user / > > > configuration data in place. No skips, bumps, nothing, it just worked > > > > > -- and properly at that. I had to re-compile one non-distributed > > Apache > > > module and I was running again. > > > ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071019/37293d2b/attachment.html
