On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions Doesn't seem to be a netbook specific version. Anyhow, a friend of mine who manages Windows machines for a living, has a lowend MSI netbook running one of those versions smoothly. I guess I'll never know though, as I have no intention of getting win7. The only OS that's more confusing with a higher number of different versions (or derivatives) is Ubuntu ;) > > >> > >> 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 > -- :(){ :|:& };:
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