> Ubuntu is the > first ( of many, many attempts ) distribution I have tried that has passed > my personal "is it ready for prime time?" test,
Dave, I am so glad you have also found Ubuntu to be worthy of use. For those who do not know, Dave and I have been friends for quite a few years. He and I have very well suited overlapping strengths in our skill sets, and where the are "underlaps" we have always been very quick to rush to the aid of each other when called upon. For years I saw Dave as one Linux Guru I could always count on to help provide guidance, whereas I think in his mind he was more apt to think he was not so much a guru as he was just a few good clicks (or more <g>) ahead of my experience curve with Linux. Over the past year I have picked up a lot of Linux experience with Suse and Ubuntu, which means I am perpetually realizing how much more there is to learn yet as I plod through the World of Linux (and Mac, concurrently). In that journey through the Land Of Linux I settled into Ubuntu as my Linux flavor of choice. To see Dave say it is the first distro he accepts as really being ready for prime time (which may or may not be the same as an endorsement) lends strong credibility in support of my choice in using Ubuntu. And knowing how hard it is for Dave to be truly satisfied with any OS or application (he is not picky, he just expects things to work as advertised and claimed), well I feel like the student who finally has been told by a master that, "You have chosen well, Grasshoppa." It counts for a lot. So, now I have "Dave's Blessing" on Ubuntu in general. "Big deal", you ask? What next? It just gives me more incentive to start looking at carving out some serious time to start dealing with the VFP under Linux via WINE/CrossOver Office effort - a project once successfully engaged in by Ed Leafe (with me watching) a few years ago with Red Hat. Now I want to pursue it under Ubuntu so I can prepare for life with VFP beyond XP, when XP is no longer easy to get my paws on for clients. Just part of my longer run plan to migrate to Dabo/Python - except I may just make the jump to Linux instead of staying in Windows at first when I make the Great Leap Forward & Out. My next step is to take a new SATA HDD I just received, pop it into my Dell sc420 Server that is currently running Suse Enterprise Linux v-10 (4Gb RAM, P4 2.8 Dual Code CPU, multiple 73Gb SCSI HDD units, nice setup), then install Ubuntu 8.04 onto the new SATA Boot Drive (keeping the original SATA HDD on hand in case I dork the Ubuntu installation and have to quickly get the sc420 lit up again). I would have normally just installed Ubuntu on top of Suse, but this is a production server with which I have a narrow timeframe of opportunity to do the cutover. If it gets dorked I must get it back to its current baseline pronto, without having to run TAR to restore Suse on top of the Ubuntu effort. Anyway, that is now today's project. Install Ubuntu on the Suse Server, install & configure PostgreSQL, Tomcat, VNC, configure & light up SAMBA shares for Windows accessibility, migrate our web site hosting files onto the Ubuntu Server, configure the LAN card with dual IPs (local and DMZ), place my production VFP database files onto said Ubuntu Server, cross my fingers, click my heels and hope like hell it all lights up first time. Fun, fun, fun. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Smith > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion > > > I'm running the same setup as you, and it has been great. Ubuntu is the > first ( of many, many attempts ) distribution I have tried that has passed > my personal "is it ready for prime time?" test, which is, I never have to > touch the command line to do what I want to do. Ever. That's not to say I > don't go in there for the fun of it, but that I don't have to > makes all the > difference. > > David Smith > Systems Administrator > Doan Family of Dealerships > (585) 352-6600 ext.1730 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.upstatedigitools.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jeff Johnson > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion > > I did the same thing with my HP TX1000. Most of the features worked with > Ubuntu out of the box, but some things still don't work with XP. > The laptop was designed for Vista and came with Vista and some of the > drivers are not available for XP. I often wondered how Ubuntu had the > drivers but XP does not. > > On my desktop I only installed Ubuntu and am running XP and (will > run) Vista > (for testing) in Virtual Box. > > I might note that the level of support from the Linux community is > tremendous whenever I have encountered a problem. > > Jeff > > Jeff Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SanDC, Inc. > 623-582-0323 > Fax 623-869-0675 > > Phoenix Python User Group - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ed Leafe wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Gil Hale wrote: > > > >> I just turned my HP ze2000 laptop into a dual-boot XP Pro/Ubuntu > >> Linux machine the other night. I guess I got boted <g>. Seriously, > >> now I surf fearlessly on the laptop. I was surprised at how easily > >> the laptop accepted Ubuntu 8.04, and how all WiFi and Ethernet > >> connectivity just plain old worked. Very smooth. > > > > Please don't tell people this. You're smashing their comforting > image > > of using the only trouble-free OS available: Windows. They want to > > believe that anything else is difficult to install and use, and won't > > work with most hardware. So please stop bursting their bubbles. > > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
