Seriously, Linpus Linux--is it any good?
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From: Matt Giwer on 30 May 2010 19:33 On 05/30/2010 06:25 PM, RayLopez99 wrote: > On May 30, 10:56 pm, The Natural Philosopher<t...(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: >>> Seriously, Linpus Linux--is it any good? Serious replies only, though >>> I am copying COLA. >> More fool you, unless this is a deliberate troll. > Unless. Why don't you give an opinion on the Linpus, pus? > This is the fabled "Linux community"? Legendary perhaps but not fabled. -- With the change from holocaust victims to holocaust martyrs the entire matter must be rethought in light of the voluntary nature of the deaths. -- The Iron Webmaster, 4257 http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/is-seg.phtml a14 Sun May 30 19:30:55 EDT 2010
From: The Natural Philosopher on 30 May 2010 19:44 RayLopez99 wrote: > On May 30, 10:56 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: >>> Seriously, Linpus Linux--is it any good? Serious replies only, though >>> I am copying COLA. >> More fool you, unless this is a deliberate troll. > > Unless. Why don't you give an opinion on the Linpus, pus? > > This is the fabled "Linux community"? > Is it really? I though it was the Ray Lopeez wank tank. > RL
From: RayLopez99 on 30 May 2010 20:05 On May 31, 2:33 am, Matt Giwer <jul...(a)tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > On 05/30/2010 06:25 PM, RayLopez99 wrote: > > > This is the fabled "Linux community"? > > Legendary perhaps but not fabled. > Yes, these people are legends in their own mind. With their 1% market share. The one time in a decade I'm maybe interested in Linux I can't get a straight answer (it's happened before). You freetards are your own worst enemy. RL
From: felmon on 30 May 2010 21:34 On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:05:49 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote: > The one time in a decade I'm maybe interested in Linux I can't get a > straight answer (it's happened before). are you saying the other times these last months you said you were genuinely interested, you were just trying to pull people's chain? are you admitting to trolling? Felmon
From: Aragorn on 30 May 2010 23:49
[Follow-up set to comp.os.linux.advocacy, for obvious reasons] On Sunday 30 May 2010 14:41 in comp.os.linux.setup, somebody identifying as RayLopez99 wrote... > So for this non-power user who only surfs the net to check email, I'm > thinking that I might get her a $300 ACER Aspire R3610 M330 320G RAM > 2G Mini Desktop LINUX--running Linpus Linux (what a stupid name; > sounds like a disease). I will agree with you on the name. It does indeed sound like something nasty. But then again, so does "Vista". What's important here is that the distribution comes pre-installed on the machine from the vendor and that it should thus be guaranteed to work - covered by warranty! - with each and every component of the machine itself. This is no different from when you buy an Apple machine with OS X or any of the machines that come pre-installed with Windows, or a smartphone with Symbian, Windows CE or whatever. If a hardware manufacturer pre-installs an operating system, then that hardware manufacturer is liable for the functioning of this pre-installed system (but not for mis-use of it). > But my concern is that though the screenshots look good from what I've > seen in Google, if it's already factory installed can she plug it into > a DSL modem supplied by one of the Baby Bells, will the modem be > recognized, and will she be good to go, so she can check her email at > Yahoo email, or, do I have to do something to make the dang system > work? DLS modems typically have an standard ethernet connection to the machine and do not need to be "recognized" by the operating system, any more than that your wall power socket needs to be. What you probably /might/ have to set up is the typical ISP stuff - e.g. username and password for the POP or IMAP e-mail accounts, if any - but the internet connection itself should all be handled automatically by the DHCP client at boot time. In some distributions, it might also be necessary to manually enable NTP support, but that should be as trivial as marking a checkbox. > This is an ideal user--if ever there was one--for Linux, [... Nonsensical claim and trollbaiting. An ideal user for GNU/Linux would rather be someone who values the merits of a genuine, powerful, portable, flexible, versatile, stable and secure operating system over the pre-chewed, commercial-only and utterly proprietary junk from certain OS vendors - notably those at a certain business in Redmond, Washington, USA, whose hymns you so addictedly keep chanting. > ...] but unless Linux needs zero hand holding and installation help, > [... Another nonsensical claim, as *no* operating system is ever without flaws, and Windows - your little baby - certainly also requires handholding, even for those who are experienced at it. What do you think Microsoft has a help desk or a Knowledge Base on their website for? Most of my friends use Windows on their desktop machines and laptops, and *all* of them are nagging or complaining about installation quirks or other aspects of Windows when they are upgrading to a newer version of Windows. So that's a newer version of the same system they had already been using before, and in the use of which they should normally be experienced. And these people *are* so-called power-users. *Anyone* ever exposed to a computer for the first time will require (a certain degree of) handholding, regardless of the operating system on that computer, just like there aren't any cars out there that can be driven by someone who's never even driven a car before in their life. > ...] I'm not going to get it. Personally as a power user I cannot see > myself using anything but a first class OS like Windows. A "first class OS like Windows"? Bwhahahahahaha! Did you just teleport to the 21st century from the middle ages, where they still believed that innocent old ladies with knowledge of herbs and plants were witches in league with Lucifer, who had to be burned at the stake for their sins, or what? Windows could only possibly be considered "first class" for someone who doesn't have an IQ above room temperature (in Centigrade) and judges the quality of the OS by the amount of expensively sounding icon names and menu entries. Once again - and completely in line with your previous crossposted articles to GNU/Linux-related newsgroups other than C.O.L.A. - you are exhibiting flamebaiting and bias. > Seriously, Linpus Linux--is it any good? Serious replies only, though > I am copying COLA. The fact that you *are* including C.O.L.A. in the group list, and the fact that you yourself cannot even be serious in your request for advice from people who actually know what they're talking about, and whom *you* are turning to for said advice, can only be construed as trollbaiting and disrespect. Do you always expect serious replies from people whom you have just spit in their faces? If so, then this could be indicative of a psychopathic personality. I have given you honest and serious advice nevertheless, and so I have done more than I was ethically required to do, given that you're a troll. Here's a hint for you...: Unless *you* can be serious, try to refrain from asking for serious advice from serious people. Ask serious questions without any biased drivel and you will obtain serious replies. P.S.: Your question was not even on-topic for comp.os.linux.setup (but perfectly suited for comp.os.linux.advocacy and what that group has been about for at least the last half decade or so). Hence the follow-up to C.O.L.A. -- *Aragorn* (registered GNU/Linux user #223157) |