OT: Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:28:21PM +0200, Yotam Rubin wrote: > Don't get me wrong, OS X also sucks, only to a lesser extent. > > Borrowing your plabeic style, I am basically saying this: > 1. Windows sucks like a throng of brazillian adult-industry workers > 2. Linux sucks like a relatively larg

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Noam Rathaus
Micha, Unrelated to David's notes, rather to yours wicd is also the solution on one of our DELL laptops that wasn't able to join WEP/WPA networks unless we used wicd - as the network manager failed every time. On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:31:06 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58

Fwd: Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Forwarding, as this seems to be Moshe's intention. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Linux for an association I work for. Date: Saturday 28 February 2009 From: Moshe Brace using Yahoo To: Shlomi Fish Shavuah Tov, Too much Chollent on Sh

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58:33 +0200 David Harel wrote: > Greetings, > > > I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an > association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was > install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run > MS. We got al

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
Hi, " That's funny. So all 8 million Ubuntu users are linux experts? I guess if I visit the Ubuntu forums all I'll see is questions about remote RAID installation and not 'how to' on installing printers. Right?" I will be more specific. To be able to use Linux effectively, productively and to min

Fw: Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
--- On Sat, 28/2/09, Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: From: Moshe Brace using Yahoo Subject: Re: Linux for an association I work for. To: "Shlomi Fish" Date: Saturday, 28 February, 2009, 8:27 PM Shavuah Tov, Too much Chollent on Shabbat affects spelling and grammar! I read an

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Noam Rathaus
David, Unlike what Yotam is saying, I would advise the opposite. We have moved our whole company, as well as the accounting person (which uses חשבשבת under VirtualBox) to Linux - Ubuntu. I have to say several things works good and flawlessly, VPN and Drivers. Yes those pesky drivers, Windows s

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! On Saturday 28 February 2009 19:26:59 Moshe Brace using Yahoo wrote: > Shavuah Tov, > I'm a beginner what they call a Newbe. It's "newbie" - not "newbe". > I too came to some of the > conclusions below. However, I look at the problem from a different angle as > a newbe. I recently upgraded

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Geoff Shang
Shlomi Fish wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote: 2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to fix t

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Saturday 28 February 2009 07:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote: > I now believe that Linux is not a > viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user. That's funny. So all 8 million Ubuntu users are linux experts? I guess if I visit the Ubuntu forums all I'll see is questions about remote RAID in

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 28 February 2009 16:58:33 David Harel wrote: > Greetings, > > > I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an > association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was > install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run > MS. We got all se

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Moshe Brace using Yahoo
nd that several programmes on the Mac crashed. The Resume button appeared, presumeably the guy who wrote the programme that crashed had to send out his Resume when looking for a new job. Moshe --- On Sat, 28/2/09, Yotam Rubin wrote: From: Yotam Rubin Subject: Re: Linux for an association I work for. T

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote: > Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against > switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert. How can you become a Linux expert without trying Linux? > While it took me > some years to reach this concl

Re: Linux for an association I work for.

2009-02-28 Thread Yotam Rubin
Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert. While it took me some years to reach this conclusion, I now believe that Linux is not a viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user. My reasons follow: 1. Mainstr