Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-23 Thread Jeremy Visser
David Lyon said: The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines but the Android and Apple computers. Clearly, they both are Linux derivates. ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
But they do - employers do pay you to use MS, otherwise their IT manager might have to shoulder some responsibility. Kevin On 24/06/2011 6:24 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: and late model Ubuntu releases run very nicely on 8 core machines... somebody would have to pay me

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-23 Thread David Lyon
I'm employed as an IT Manager. Heterogeneous environments with Linux and Windows are perfectly acceptable these days. With Android pads coming onto the market, it's reason to have even less Windows machines. Modern Linux is perfectly robust and it all works like a charm so I don't mind taking

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread David Lyon
It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished. The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines but the Android and Apple computers. Clearly, they both are Linux derivates. So in a way, commercial Linux won out. There's little that really can be done

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011, David Lyon wrote: It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished. The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines but the Android and Apple computers. .. Apple - linux derivative? Adrian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread David Lyon
Of course. gnu tool chain, has a command shell... if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a linux derivative.. just a very beautiful one.. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.auwrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011, David Lyon wrote: It's not so

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011, David Lyon wrote: Of course. gnu tool chain, has a command shell... if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a linux derivative.. just a very beautiful one.. .. except that it's got a gnu toolchain, but uses chunks of the BSD userland and

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread peter
David == David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com writes: David Of course. gnu tool chain, has a command shell... David if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a David linux derivative.. Other way around. Apple and Linux are both derivatives of Unix(TM). Apple via the

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread David Lyon
So clearly, the main market forces are: Android (Linux), Apple (BSD), Microsoft (Windows).. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread david
pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: David == David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com writes: David Of course. gnu tool chain, has a command shell... David if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a David linux derivative.. Other way around. Apple and Linux are both

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Vance
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: David == David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com writes: David Of course.  gnu tool chain, has a command shell... David if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
David Lyon wrote: It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished. The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines but the Android and Apple computers. Clearly, they both are Linux derivates. So in a way, commercial Linux won out. There's

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread James Linder
On 23/06/2011, at 9:01 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished. The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines but the Android and Apple computers. .. Apple - linux derivative? I did ask on this

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread onlyjob
That's right Eric, I'm with you. There are many other problems with Apple notably Banning of GPL and copyright assignments. I'm quite concerned about proliferation of proprietary software. No matter what software we can willingly choose, Australian public schools have to use Microsoft's software