Greetings,
I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an
association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was
install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run
MS. We got all services we needed including connectivity to external
resources.
Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against
switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert. While it took me
some years to reach this conclusion, I now believe that Linux is not a
viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user. My reasons follow:
1.
On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote:
Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against
switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert.
How can you become a Linux expert without trying Linux?
While it took me
some years to reach this
for an association I work for.
To: David Harel harel...@gmail.com
Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Date: Saturday, 28 February, 2009, 5:45 PM
Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against
switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert. While it took me some
years to reach
On Saturday 28 February 2009 16:58:33 David Harel wrote:
Greetings,
I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an
association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was
install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run
MS. We got all services
On Saturday 28 February 2009 07:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote:
I now believe that Linux is not a
viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user.
That's funny. So all 8 million Ubuntu users are linux experts? I guess if I
visit the Ubuntu forums all I'll see is questions about remote RAID
Shlomi Fish wrote:
On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote:
2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream
distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various
programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to
fix
Hi!
On Saturday 28 February 2009 19:26:59 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote:
Shavuah Tov,
I'm a beginner what they call a Newbe.
It's newbie - not newbe.
I too came to some of the
conclusions below. However, I look at the problem from a different angle as
a newbe. I recently upgraded under
David,
Unlike what Yotam is saying, I would advise the opposite.
We have moved our whole company, as well as the accounting person (which uses
חשבשבת under VirtualBox) to Linux - Ubuntu.
I have to say several things works good and flawlessly, VPN and Drivers.
Yes those pesky drivers, Windows
--- On Sat, 28/2/09, Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: Linux for an association I work for.
To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il
Date: Saturday, 28 February, 2009, 8:27 PM
Shavuah Tov,
Too much Chollent
Hi,
That's funny. So all 8 million Ubuntu users are linux experts? I guess if I
visit the Ubuntu forums all I'll see is questions about remote RAID
installation and not 'how to' on installing printers. Right?
I will be more specific. To be able to use Linux effectively, productively
and to
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58:33 +0200
David Harel harel...@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an
association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was
install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run
Forwarding, as this seems to be Moshe's intention.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: Linux for an association I work for.
Date: Saturday 28 February 2009
From: Moshe Brace using Yahoo mbrace...@yahoo.co.uk
To: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il
Micha,
Unrelated to David's notes, rather to yours wicd is also the solution on one
of our DELL laptops that wasn't able to join WEP/WPA networks unless we used
wicd - as the network manager failed every time.
On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:31:06 Micha Feigin wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Yotam Rubin wrote:
Don't get me wrong, OS X also sucks, only to a lesser extent.
Borrowing your plabeic style, I am basically saying this:
1. Windows sucks like a throng of brazillian adult-industry workers
2. Linux sucks like a relatively large
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