Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 7/1/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
George Geller wrote:
> I'm scheduled to man a booth at a conference about software for
> educators and have agreed to demo Knoppix and the Gutengerg project.
>
4) Show them that going from a ground zero machine to a functioning web
server with a forum (phpBB or similar) takes about 5 minutes so that
they can go bug their computer people to set it up.
Tell me how this squares with your jeremiad on the difficulties of
installing Ubuntu Linux.
Internal IDE drive. Single boot. Text mode. Wired networking.
All packages premade and loaded. All pieces fully open source.
aka--Default Server Install
Note that word: server
Note that other word: default
Given those constraints, just about anything would work. I could make
FreeBSD work from a default install. I could probably even make
OpenSolaris work. I wouldn't bet money on that though.
I was *extremely* surprised that ubuntu couldn't handle creating a
development environment without bugs. That is the first time I have
*ever* hit a Linux that didn't have a "Development" choice that "just
worked".
The area that Linux always lets me down is hardware support. Especially
USB and Firewire. Why? USB has only been out for what? 10 *years*.
Graphics support on Linux is just garbage. This is only partially the
fault of Linux. The lack of specs from nVidia and ATI cause it.
However, the Linux folks always claim "if we only had an open source
graphics chip, we'd support it like crazy.". Well, one exists. It's
the Via Unichrome chip/chipset.
And how many people are working on it? I count less than 10. Nice
"community support". <snort>
-a
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