What I'm saying is that they could have given a more up to date screenshot than that. And I don't really care about Mandriva being chosen. It's gotten some very good reviews in its recent iterations, and they haven't gone down the Novell route with partnership agreements, either.
I do hope that they use the more up to date software, though. The last thing anyone needs is people using antiquated distros because they don't know any better. I'd like to see the reaction among students at a secondary level. At home, I can well see that a major negative to Linux would be the lack of games, of course. Otherwise, I don't think there are any other major concerns. Both of my sisters are in secondary school, and they go along well with Ubuntu Linux. The only point where they had to use Windows was some last minute practice for their ECDL examination, and that was on a VM box. Otherwise, they use Ubuntu like a pro. When I was in form 4-5, I also recall that Linux was sufficient for my needs..except for Turbo Pascal, before I discovered that Dosbox could run it very nicely, thank you very much. I also agree that a cube screenshot would be confusing..and most people aren't interested in such eye-candy. Businesses - I can already sense some things going down though. Accounting packages, for instance. An over-reliance on Excel and macros, perhaps? A good alternative to Exchange? On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:10 +0200, Sebastian Cachia wrote: > True, but lets also keep in mind that the IT supplement of the Times > is primarily aimed at businesses, so a lot of things come higher up on > the priority list than Compiz, Themes and a cool wallpaper. > > Though, if they had to include a screenshot they could have at least > got it right. > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
