On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Jean-Francois Theroux<[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bah Bigotry ? nope just a firm believer in free software and an OS >> that I dont have to reinstall every 6 months. Its good to laugh at >> Microsoft, god knows I put up with enough anti Linux jokes at work! >> they just dont learn. >> >> Anyhow...Windows7 ? Its built on top of Vista, the hardware >> requirements are still the same. > > Not quite. You can't run Vista on netbooks. On the other hand, you can run > Win7 on most netbooks available today. >
Not quite. There are 2 versions of Win7, a stripped down version for netbooks. >> >> Leslie if you really absolutely need to run a Windows OS then by all >> means Windows7 will be ok. And I dont think Novell produced >> Windows7 ?? They probably had their input into making it more >> compatible with Linux. > > Leslie, please back this up with facts. > >> >> But really copying Ubuntu release parties?, what will they do after >> that? have SP1, SP2 Release parties?, yay lots of fun! >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Leslie >> Satenstein<[email protected]> wrote: >> > concepts wrote: >> >> «I hope those are tempered Windows or else a Ubuntu impact could make >> >> them shatter! >> >> >> >> Would be interesting perhaps to host one of those and be like "See, >> >> this >> >> is Windows 7, and now let's put our Ubuntu installation CD...."» >> >> >> >> Would that make it a *WINDEX* party? >> >> André. >> >> >> >> >> > I realize that we all have a leaning towards Linux, but we should not >> > become Linux Bigots. Microsoft is foremost a for profit company, and as >> > such, will use warfare to destroy the competition. I have not seen or >> > tried windows7, but in fact, it may be a very good product. I believe it >> > was produced by Novell for Microsoft, and uses much of the knowledge >> > gained from SUSE to be re-implemented in W7. >> > >> > Microsoft Office is a very good product, and it is a market leader. >> > Thus, to benefit from MSOffice, you may need to be under a Windows >> > environment. If MSOffice loses the exclusivity, through being forced to >> > support ODF, then the door is open to other software products that could >> > do better then just imitating MS word, Excel, etc. That may open the >> > doors a lot wider for Linux. >> > >> > If windows7 is good, it will probably become my desktop machine. It all >> > depends on costs and my business needs. >> > >> > Right now, the word on the net is that UBUNTU is what MS fears the >> > most. That is why the UBUNTU announcement release date was chosen by MS >> > to conflict and reduce the UBUNTU impact. (Reporters cant be in two >> > places at once). You can be sure that even the hours of the release >> > parties (and refreshments) will conflict. >> > >> > My two cents. >> > >> > Leslie >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > mlug mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > >> > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! >> http://www.ubuntu.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > -- > :(){ :|:& };: > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > -- Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! http://www.ubuntu.com/ _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
