Rob Beard wrote: > [snip] > > I just got the general impression that you were saying that Macs were > the the be all and end all, guess I read it wrong. You're lucky not to > have used Me, I had the annoying task of supporting it once, wasn't fun > at all :-(
Apologies if that's the way I come across. I'm a big proponent of Ubuntu on both the server and "desktop" (an increasingly meaningless term in the face of fast rising laptop dominance and increasing numbers of netbooks appearing), but I caught the Mac bug again big style a couple of years ago and have found it hard to shake. You'll note I'm using Thunderbird to send mail (talking to a postfix/dovecot backend here at home), and I use Firefox and lots of other FLOSS apps on my Mac too ... macports is an especially useful piece of software since I don't have good old dpkg/apt on OS X :) > [snip] >> 2008 is about a gig here. I agree that for something you'd use to >> create a spreadsheet or type up a letter, that's insane. For reference, >> iWork '09 is 650 meg. > > Makes me wonder exactly what Microsoft have put in there. Maybe I'm > just a bit cynical, I remember when Word came on a couple of floppies > and did just as good a job. Probably magic UI stuff (newer versions of office on windows have that "awesome" ribbon thing, for example), templates galore, common library components, et cetera, et cetera ... -n -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
