Re: [Nolug] Ubuntu

I'm with Techmaster... At one point I've ran almost every distro.. Ubuntu is
completely awesome.. It's what we have been working towards.. You should be
excited.. Not hating.. Everything came from somewhere.. Debian is still
awesome(which I still tinker with) But it helped give birth to something
else.. Ubuntu is the first real pro package we have produced as a
community.. It actually installs the first time, its usable, it's GUI is
feature rich and playful... I love it.. It's my main OS..

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On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Techmaster <techmaster@gmail.com> wrote:

Check out powershell and windows core mode. They have both of those things,
sort of. Core mode is a cli window in a stripped down gui, similar to
running X without any window manager. Hopefully we'll see a true CLI
version of Windows soon.

On Oct 1, 2010 12:07 PM, "B. Estrade" <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Techmaster wrote:
>> I love it how when somebody creates a linux distro that is actually
usable,
>> everybody makes fun of it. I fix people's computers for a living, and the
>> last thing I want to do is come home and spend all night or weekend
trying
>> to get my computer to do something basic. With Windows or OSX, we expect
a
>> certain level of usability. Somehow, it's become acceptable for a UNIX OS
>> to be hard to use, yet Apple has proven to us that it is possible to
build a
>> UNIX system that is just as user friendly as Windows. Suddenly, somebody
>> makes Linux easy to use, and the only downside I can think of to this is
>> that knowing Linux is no longer a bragging right, because somebody's
grandpa
>> just installed Ubuntu on his home PC, all by himself. But, is that really
a
>> bad thing? Linux is finally making progress towards being a mainstream
OS.
>> Isn't this what we've been fighting for all these years? We all know that
>> Windows rules the planet, and MS has been sitting on its behind for a
long
>> time when it comes to security and stability. OSX and Linux have made
some
>> serious progress over the past few years, and Microsoft finally has some
>> real competition. The end result? Windows 7, and it's really good. It's a
>> huge advancement over Windows ME and NT4. Operating systems are going to
>> keep getting better over time. If you prefer editing .conf files in vi
>> under slackware, then have fun living in 1975. While you make a hobby out
>> of configuring your system, the rest of us will be actually USING our
>> computers. Just stop yelling at us to get off your lawn. :)
>
> Microsoft has done too much good computer science research to not
> apply it to their core products. And a little competition never hurt.
>
> I think if Windows suddenly provided a (real) shell like interface
> with familiar tools, made this interface feel unix-y, and allowed for
> it to be run WITHOUTGUI=YES, then there would be a whole lot of
> closet converts out there. 99% of the recreational *nix users out
> there would instantly find it acceptible to use Windows again.
>
> Brett
>
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2010 11:31 AM, "Jerry Wilborn" <jerrywilborn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My favorite part of Linux is package management. Oh, wait, no it isn't!
>> >
>> > This is why Ubuntu is great; the package strength of deb but more user
>> > friendly. Plus they have one of the best Live disks out there.
>> >
>> > Jerry Wilborn
>> > jerrywilborn@gmail.com
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:39 AM, B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:44:38AM -0500, Ben Bullard wrote:
>> >> > Someone somewhere had this line under their signature:
>> >> >
>> >> > "Ubuntu - Linux for users who can't configure Debian"
>> >>
>> >> Is Ubuntu the new Windows and are Ubuntu users the new walking brain
>> >> dead?
>> >>
>> >> Brett
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > On 10/01/2010 08:46 AM, Joey Kelly wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >>
>>
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>> >> > >
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