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 Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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| Quote: | Windows is Jessica Alba. Linux is Rachel Maddow. Maddow is smarter,
more efficient and better educated than Alba. But who would you wanna
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Paul Hovnanian P.E.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:28 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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Windows is a fat chick who eats all your resources, won't do any real
work, and needs a makeover every couple of years.
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Claude Hopper
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:57 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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| Quote: | yuyuyuyuyu
"umo" <shoreke@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Windows is Jessica Alba. Linux is Rachel Maddow. Maddow is smarter,
more efficient and better educated than Alba. But who would you wanna
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The old 'reboot' operating system. |
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Claude Hopper
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:03 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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| Quote: | yuyuyuyuyu
"umo" <shoreke@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Windows is Jessica Alba. Linux is Rachel Maddow. Maddow is smarter,
more efficient and better educated than Alba. But who would you wanna
live with?
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I did a clean install of OpenSuSE 11.0. The install completed,
downloaded a few dozen OS updates and installed them, started the window
manager KDE and downloaded 900 meg of open source updates like Mozilla
and Open office stuff and install all and it was ready to use. IT DID
NOT REBOOT ONE SINGLE TIME!. Try that with Winblows.
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Rex Ballard
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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On Nov 7, 12:49 am, Lang <lang_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Claude Hopper wrote:
I did a clean install of OpenSuSE 11.0. The install completed,
downloaded a few dozen OS updates and installed them, started the window
manager KDE and downloaded 900 meg of open source updates like Mozilla
and Open office stuff and install all and it was ready to use. IT DID
NOT REBOOT ONE SINGLE TIME!. Try that with Winblows.
Cannot get OpenSUSE 11 to install on a Dell Latitude D620 here. Won't
get beyond the second screen. Tried many times. Checked CD via surface
scan, no issues there. Not looking for an answer really, just stating my
experience with it.
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According to:
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/Dell+Latitude+D620
The machine is "Linux Friendly".
You are probably using one of the "freebie" distributions, an OpenSUSE
distribution, which may have limited support and/or testing.
Have you tried installing any other versions of Linux?
There are some problems with one of the OpenOrg X.11 server/drivers on
the Nvidia graphics card. You might want switch to an earlier version
of X.11 which seems to be more reliable.
Commercial versions of SUSE are better tested and more reliable, and
are more likely to configure correctly. When I installed SUSE 10
commercial version, it figured out which binary-only graphics
accelerator driver to use, installed it and configured it correctly,
and ran beautifully. The "community editions" such as OpenSUSE,
Ubuntu, and Fedora are intended for developers and supporters who want
to stay ahead of the curve, so that they can be relatively sure that
things will work on the next commercial version when it arrives.
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Lang
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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Claude Hopper wrote:
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yuyuyuyuyu
"umo" <shoreke@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c1838c52-82f5-478a-84fd-69adaf345faf@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
Windows is Jessica Alba. Linux is Rachel Maddow. Maddow is smarter,
more efficient and better educated than Alba. But who would you wanna
live with?
I did a clean install of OpenSuSE 11.0. The install completed,
downloaded a few dozen OS updates and installed them, started the window
manager KDE and downloaded 900 meg of open source updates like Mozilla
and Open office stuff and install all and it was ready to use. IT DID
NOT REBOOT ONE SINGLE TIME!. Try that with Winblows.
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Cannot get OpenSUSE 11 to install on a Dell Latitude D620 here. Won't
get beyond the second screen. Tried many times. Checked CD via surface
scan, no issues there. Not looking for an answer really, just stating my
experience with it.
Lang |
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RonB
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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Lang wrote:
| Quote: | Cannot get OpenSUSE 11 to install on a Dell Latitude D620 here. Won't
get beyond the second screen. Tried many times. Checked CD via surface
scan, no issues there. Not looking for an answer really, just stating my
experience with it.
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What does it do? Just lock? This weekend I upgraded my Desktop computer
(Dell Optiplex GX240) from openSUSE 10.3 to openSUSE 11.0 without any
problems.
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RonB
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:20:35 -0600, Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@gmail.com>
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| Quote: | Commercial versions of SUSE are better tested and more reliable, and
are more likely to configure correctly. When I installed SUSE 10
commercial version, it figured out which binary-only graphics
accelerator driver to use, installed it and configured it correctly,
and ran beautifully.
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I've got SUSE 10 SP 2 running on the other computer (a twin to the GX240).
It set up my monitor's resolution up to 120 instead of the 85 (the norm
for openSUSE). I didnt know if that was what I really wanted, but it
obviously did something different. It also came built in with an MP3
player and nicer fonts -- but the choice of software in its repositories
is more limited. For what I need, openSUSE works great. But if folks want
technical support and are willing to pay the very reasonable rate of $120
for 3 years support, I'd go with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
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Rikishi42
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Windows vs Linux |
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Lang wrote:
| Quote: | Cannot get OpenSUSE 11 to install on a Dell Latitude D620 here. Won't
get beyond the second screen. Tried many times. Checked CD via surface
scan, no issues there. Not looking for an answer really, just stating my
experience with it.
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I did an isntall on a D610, without any problem.
You didn't receive the least bit of error message? |
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