Warren Young wrote: > > Yyeahhh...look how much that sort of stance has helped the cause of > Linux on the desktop. World domination has been a year or two away for > the last 10 years. (Speaking as one who uses Linux every day, and used > it as his main desktop at home for many years before switching to OS X.) >
Linux on the desktop is more likely a goal of Ubuntu. The main aims of http://www.kernel.org/ is simply to support the hardware in an open manner. GNU was to develop a UNIX-like standards compliant operating system, not sure getting that onto the desktop of every computer was an aim. Anyway this is a tangent and mostly irrelevant. Warren Young wrote: > > I think that's the earlier poster's main point: this can be a one-click > process. Why make the human tell the computer things it already knows? > Because sometimes the human has a better idea as to what they want than the computer? Example - I've found it infuriating when I've wanted to download browser source code (as the distro I use compiles from source) for firefox and only been presented with pre-compiled binaries (if I'm browsing at home) or windows versions (if I'm at work), then wasting more time trying to find FTP mirrors where the most recent source tar-balls are available, and as I remember that took far longer than being able to choose what OS and version I wanted from a series of clearly written pages. Neil -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-in-Recommending-R-tp21783299p21813695.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
