On mer, 2007-09-26 at 10:03 +0700, Jean Christophe Andr? wrote: > Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > > I can't. There are some reasons for it: > > 1. I *have* to use Windows at work. > > 2. I play some games that only available under Windows. > > 3. My wife hate Linux and I am so scare of her. > > > Well... Those are all "Good Reasons"?, for sure... ;-) > > 1. In the time Linux was not so popular, we had no choice... But now, > hopefully, it becomes really popular and we can see more and more FOSS > job opportunities! Soon (or even already in some place) we'll be able to > choose our favorite OS by choosing the "right employer/employment". Now > I'm being lucky because the AUF (my employer) is getting into the FOSS > move and we are now removing every Windows one by one! We get 450 > employees all around the world, so it's a pretty hard task...
Those conversion will happens more and more > 2. About games, we already have a lot of good games under Linux. I'm not > talking about little ones like tetris but about real ones, check the > Brazilian selection here: http://www.ubuntugames.org/ Note that the Wine > project does run a lot of Windows games too, without that much overhead, > see here: http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php?catId=2 Wine is definite pain in the neck to run and configure, although it's much easier than it use to be anyway, for the end user, try this "package manager" for wine : wine-doors http://www.wine-doors.org it ease the burden of managing all those windows package within linux. > 3. Well... About our wives, there is not much to say... Some of us have > been lucky (and I am) to get married to some open-minded woman that try > to understand our world Spirit. Others... Well... Let's pray for their > souls, or psychological stableness at a minimum! ;-) Well, there's several women on the list, I think they should react to that. I also think that need to tackle the women audience, with communities like http://www.linuxchix.org/ I think women have different reasons than men to join FOSS project or to use the software... > -- > Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/ > Responsable technique r?gional > Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) > Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam > T?l. : +84 4 9331108 Fax : +84 4 8247383 Mobile : +84 91 3248747 > ? Note personnelle : merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? > ? ou Word, voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? > > _______________________________________________ > HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/mailman/ > HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
