Re: What's as friendly as Windows XP? was Windows XP Issue (Activation) III
From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknowuniverse.org)
Date: 02/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:40:02 -0500
Leythos wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:14:16 -0500, kurttrail wrote:
>
>> if there is ever a consumer & computer moron friendly version
>> of Linux, that will run software developed for MS OSs. And if there
>> is a company that develops this version of Linux before MS releases
>> Longhorn, MS will rue the day that they ever started this EULA war
>> with their private non-commercial customer.
>
> Now, here you've got a good new topic. Since we're not going to agree
> on the validity of the EULA, lets address the above question:
>
> About two months ago I started reviewing many different versions of
> alternative OS's, I narrowed it down to primary testing of SUSE 9.1
> Personal, Mandrake 10.0 Official, and RedHat Fedora Core 3. SUSE I
> started with a Laptop (P3/600/512MB), 3 small workstations
> (P3/833/256) and a single Dual (P3/1g/2g RAM) as my test cases. SUSE
> 9.1 Personal installed on all systems and found and setup all
> hardware, but the KDE desktop (Window manager) was slow. Mandrake
> 10.0 Official also installed and found all the hardware, but the
> desktop didn't detect the video resolutions properly and I had to
> edit the KDE configuration file. Fedora Core 3 installed and worked
> perfectly, as did ALL of the applications and servers it installed.
> On FC3 I selected the GNOME window manager (very windows like) and
> have been able to manage ALL of the resources via graphical
> interfaces, the only command line I've used is to PING systems.
>
> At this point I've wiped the SUSE and MKD systems and started using
> FC3 on them for testing and learning - I'm using one of the P3's
> right now to type this.
>
> Now, it took 90 minutes to install the 3 CD's, but that included all
> the office apps, editors, servers (HTTP, Mail, FTP, and others), it
> then took about 2 hours to download all the updates (much like SP2
> and Office 2003 SP) much the same as Windows does for a fully
> installed machine.
>
> For those people using Exchange servers, well, not to fret, Evolution
> is a Outlook like product that will work with Exchange (and does all
> the Outlook things, contacts, calendar (and it looks like Outlooks),
> tasks, email, etc..) as well as working with POP accounts and IMAP.
>
> So, what was the reason for this? Simple, I've run into to many home
> users that have compromised machines and don't know if they have an
> alternative, and I didn't know either. I've found that FC3 provides a
> great FREE platform with simple to use instructions for installation,
> great tools for editing documents and email and browsing the web, and
> even has about 20 cheap games installed for people that want it. Oh,
> it also works with my Phaser 8400B color wax/thermal laser and my HP
> 1300 and my HP 1200.
>
> The difference between Windows XP (and version) and FC3 - FC3 comes
> with servers (web, FTP, file sharing - SAMBA), comes with Office
> capable applications (Write = Word, Calc = Excel, DIA = cheap visio,
> Impress = Power Point, and Math which I've not looked at).
>
> As for reliability of the platform - I did have one crash, when it
> upgraded the (and it has a little automatic update tool that lets you
> know when updates are ready) kernel from 2.6.9-1.667 to 2.6.10-1.741,
> it would not boot and I don't know enough to fix it. I wiped and
> reinstalled and did the update and all is working perfectly. Some
> updates to the kernel require rebooting the entire system no matter
> what linux zealots tell you.
>
> I have this system on a port of my desktop KVM and my Win XP Prof SP2
> machine on the other, and with the exception of needing use XP to
> manage the firewall (I run a WatchGuard Firebox that uses a Win based
> GUI tool) I've not used my XP Prof box for almost 3 days now.
>
> There are some difficulties - I've been unable to get R/W access to my
> Windows 2000/2003 servers for file access, but I've not put a lot of
> effort into it yet.
>
> So, aside from MAC, which is now running a variant of BSD, there is a
> viable, real, working, full featured, simple to install, easy to use,
> alternative for the masses of non-technical home users, and it's free
> and can be installed on as many machines as the user wants :)
I'm sorry, but didn't you Plonk me?
-- Peace! Kurt Self-anointed Moderator microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea http://microscum.com "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron! "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
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