On 12/14/06, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
distros? Why, Debian 3.1 worked out of the box and played VCDs with proper sound and video.
I'm probably a bit short sighted on this one but I always thought Debian testing to be a lighter, more stable and often more functional Ubuntu. It's just that the word server gets tagged along almost all the time. You made an excellent point about things working out of the box though. I never actually focussed on actually "using" an XP box to get a feel of it but now that I have to in my office, it seems to be quite a decent system. My impression (assuming that I was a lay user) was that the entire system seems to perform as one whereas with GNU/Linux, it's lots of parts working together (extremely well, might I add). I am not talking about pains like protected mode browsing in IE, the irritating firewall, etc. I'm simply talking about how various basic elements fit in to make a whole. Desktop installations (goes even for Debain full installs) should try to provide this almost singular interface. Names like 'iceweasel', 'beagle' don't help either. Desktop versions may simply be called 'Internet Browser', 'Search', etc. We already have a system that's more stable compared to Windows. We simply need to package it even better. Regards, -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk http://siddhesh.phpnet.us -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
