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The Kid

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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 9:57pm

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Well everyone could learn how and save money too.

Not all people are willing to take time and learn if all they need to pay is $99 (How much is Windows per COPY? $199 Retail?)
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Saturday, October 26th 2002, 10:23pm

Well I think nobody has anything against Lindows or Lindows users. It's just the behavoir of Lindows as I mentioned above.
If they would change this, I think Lindows would be more accepted. And I don't know if a Distribution can survive if there is no support in the community. No question how good or bad Lindows is.

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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 12:07am

Lindows

Lindows is doing all the right things there on track and working with and sponsoring events with the debian project. True lots of geeks are offended by the fact that lindows is already starting to bring in the groves of new windows users with there AOL like promotions but hey get over it geeks. Lindows does not need your blessing. It just needs paying users like my self that are willing to fork over 100 big ones. Somthing that Mandrake or redhat has always failed to do.

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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 1:11am

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And I don't know if a Distribution can survive if there is no support in the community.

I agree with Dimitri, the most important ingredient for survival of a distibution is it's support. An exception would be where the author is doing it for themselves, like Linux from Scratch. It just happens that others want to do things for themselves too so it has a niche community.
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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 6:04pm

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Its the "main stream" distributions that are a niche market. Lindows subscribers get support. Trust me there will be millions of them. All paying 99 bucks. Mean while the geeks will be getting there free cd's and downloads and bitching about the success of lindows and putting down Lindows users much the way they put down AOL users.

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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 6:31pm

Sorry,
but slowly I get angry. Why don't people understand, that nobody wants to blame any Lindows user.
If people are willing to pay money Ok, it doesn't matter. It's the Company behind which is not accepted by most of the people. Especially the geeks as you say. But those geeky wrote the programs Lindows uses. And what would be if these geeks decide to code no more? Ok that's only theoretical, but realistic.
For example: I dont't think windows is so bad as some people say, but it's the company behind. As with Lindows. So don't blame any user, geeks or whatever. Don't let there be a second KDE vs. GNOME flamewar.

Dim

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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 6:42pm

I think this arguement should get a seperate thread.
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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 8:26pm

Lindows

Lindows has the Clicky awards which they are contributing cold hard US cash to the developers of Open Programs that Lindows users have voted for. 50 thousand US greenbacks. Thats not funny money Euros. I think Lindows will be one of developers favorite distros. Getting a check for 2 thousand dollars is nice. Lets see Mandrake do that.

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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 9:42pm

Well KDE developers work at MDK by the way... also at SuSE or GNOME developers at RH.
And no developer will ever use a distro where root account is the standard user. We prefere a distro where you can configure what you want. (Like debian, gentoo ...)
But again: No one blames Lindows or Lindows user.

Dim

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Sunday, October 27th 2002, 10:04pm

Lindows

Well thanks for speaking for all those developers and telling us what they will and will not use and also thanks for telling us what is and isn't popular with "the community". Lindows has one of the best communities of any distro out there but you wouldn't know that because your not a paying user. Please stick to what you do know. Trolling is easy but it lacks and entertainment if it is not backed up by at least a few facts.

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Monday, October 28th 2002, 7:29am

Hi,
well I don't speak for all the developers. There was a poll some time ago (not here, unfortunately I don't know the url anymore :oops: ) and debian was the prefered platform then RH, SuSE and MDK.
But I thing we should stop this now. The concept of Lindows is great, CNR is good (but would never change my gentoo portage system *g*). If you pay for it, no problem for me. And I'm glad that there are people like you in Microsoft country.
And perhaps Lindows (the company not the Distribution) will include itself a little more into the community.

Best regards
Dim

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Tuesday, October 29th 2002, 12:27am

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But I thing we should stop this now.


If not, at least move it to the Distributions forum.
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Sunday, April 6th 2003, 12:29pm

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Hi,

have a look at Gentoo Linux. Or if you are an experienced linux user you should have a look at Linux from scratch.

I both cases, your system is compiled optimized for your hardware.


I have to agree. After trying a number of distributions over a span of a few years, my linux knowledge remained quite limited (spent most of the time in windows, by the way). But, since trying Gentoo last October/November, I am hooked and I have learned so much more. I formated my windows drive two weeks ago, but I definitely recommend dual booting another os/distro until gentoo is setup.

Steve
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Sunday, April 6th 2003, 1:21pm

click and run is pretty much a front end to apt. a very nice QT front end to apt. if only they released that code or something, id be a very happy debian user.
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