Gents, the subject was that a highly qualified developer for our shared love was leaving the party.
Please stop this thread and start saying what we/you can do to get this party together again. Kind regards, The out-side Op 8 jun. 2013 om 02:03 heeft Dave McGuire <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > On 06/07/2013 07:59 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >>>>>>> But it is of paramount importance to those running desktops! >>>>>>> Remember that Linux became popular because it is reliable >>>>>>> alternative to both Windows and MacOS as a desktop system. >>>>>> Excuse me? Linux on the desktop has been and still is a goal. Maybe with >>>>> A goal? It is already there! >>>> Ubuntu is a passable desktop and I use it. But it does not quite fit in an >>>> office when compared with Windows or Mac OS X. >>> Sure it does. I see it all the time. If you disagree, cite examples. >> >> Central domain management including assigning desktop profiles is not >> available. Nothing that works on the level of Powerpoint or Keynote. > > Ahhhh. Well you *may* have a point there; I don't work in environments > that are that large. But I have done large *datacenter* (not desktop) > environments, and rdist works wonders for centralized administration in that > environment. Since everything is based on nice sane config files, that > borders on the trivial. > >> The first would have been possible with winbind and KDE 3.5 but that's no >> longer available. >> >>>> Nor has it made major in-roads in the home. >>> It has here. You need to get out more. ;) >> >> The whole of Hong Kong suffers from this. > > Time to move. > >>>>>> Linux is popular because it was and is a cheap, reliable alternative to >>>>>> super expensive Unix and Windows >>>>> Linux is not cheap: it's free! And yes it is reliable. And that should >>>>> be the goal of Illumos etc. >>>>> A.S. >>>> It is most assuredly not free. Unless you happen to have a really good >>>> Linux >>>> jack of all trades admin and also a really good lot of users. Just because >>>> you do not have to purchase licenses does not mean it is free. >>> That's a popular straw man, but it just doesn't bear out in real life. >>> Linux boxes (or OS X for that matter) just do not require the degree of user >>> support that Windows boxes do. They don't require the constant reloading, >>> reformatting, de-virusing, etc etc. Nobody that I've moved to Linux or OS X >>> has ever needed any support of any kind past about the second day of use. >> >> Well, I was forced to learn to do Windows administration because that's >> working env of my school. > > Wow, it's SERIOUSLY time to move. > >> I have never had to do constant reloading, >> reformatting or de-virusing. So in my case, this is a strawman. A complete >> reinstall just takes a couple of hours too and I can mass reinstall if I have >> to for that is what I do when I get a whole new batch of desktops. > > If you've figured out how to make Windows machines reliable, you'll have > been the first, and I suspect Microsoft will hire you immediately. THEN you > could get out of Hong Kong! ;) > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
