On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:44 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:30:09AM +0000, Nicholas Butler wrote: > > The latest Podcast from the ITIdiots provides a introduction to Linux by > > way of Ubuntu. > > > > http://www.itidiots.com/ > > Your thoughts please ? > > > > Ok, first two are negative. > > 1. They said at the start that they would not add the linux box to their > active directory / domain, many reasons given, one > was that it was untrusted, didn't know what it would do. Whilst I agree > partly with the sentiment it did make me think - > "What? like you know exactly what all that closed-source software is doing on > your AD/domain any more than this open source > software does?". It just struck me as a negative thing to say off the bat. > > 2. The very very very first demo they show a bunch of people who have never > seen Linux is to install a bit of software using > apt-get!? What on earth!? Seriously, if you were showing someone Windows for > the first time, would you break out a command > prompt window and start showing them "ipconfig /all" or whatever? > > Not had a chance to watch any further, will do later tonight. Maybe it gets > better.
I had a look but, unfortunately, whilst the action was OK I had no sound. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
