On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hokay, Xandros is doomed.... no emacs, not even in the repository.
That is criminal - how can you call it a linux distro when emacs is not
installed?
Sometimes I dream of a distro where the UI / Window manager / Command
line /... _is_ emacs.
Yes, which sounds like you reached the same conclusion as other linux users.
The only difference is the length of time taken to reach the conclusion to
blow it away.
Sigh! The marketing droids who commanded the creation of the out of
the box UI, didn't really understand linux. They obviously only
thought "get it to do most of what an unsophisticated windows user
would do, but cheaper". With the result there must now be
thousands of people out there who think linux is just a Bad Cheapo
version of Windows.
Pity they didn't think "Let's make it pretty and dumb when you first
open it... but, with appropriate warning signs, make it easy for
smarter users grow into the amazingly full potential of linux.
I am curious - why ubuntu netbook remix when there is a ubuntu eee distro?
Actually following from array.org I have just found a rich ecosystem
of Ubuntu EEE PC remixes out there.
Too much to absorb whilst I'm at work...
I can tell tonight will be spent eeexploring what is eeevailable and
setting it up. At a casual glance my guess is eeebuntu netbook edition.
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