Comments on: Mainstream U.S. Media Discovers Ubuntu Linux

By: Mainstream Media Discovers Ubuntu Linux | e1evation, llc

Mainstream Media Discovers Ubuntu Linux | e1evation, llc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:40:36 +0000

[...] this reinforce an undeniable truth: Ubuntu is quietly becoming a mainstream phenomena.” Click here to read [...]

By: M-Vega

M-Vega — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:40:03 +0000

Anything to save a buck,

Now some poor IT tech has to now try and explain to these cheapskate executives why their PCs don’t work like they should, why half their apps don’t work, why the GUI sucks, why they have to spend 3 times the amount of money on support when something doesn’t work.

Long live the superior TCO of Microsoft.

Down with Linux and down with Mac,

Long live Windows 7!

Long live being able to actually get things working in Windows!

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:16:54 +0000

Uncle B: Or, you can watch for a local Linux Installfest and learn how to participate in a worthy effort to (A) salvage old hardware (B) energize it with Linux and (C) direct the hardware to someone who needs it. Google the term Linux Installfest for details.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:23:07 +0000

Please donate your old boxes to a church-group or some needy student in these hard times! To comply with the law, and with Microsoft’s leasing policy, you can now replace Microsoft OS with the free (download from the net) Ubuntu OS, which can be set to erase the hard drive of all traces of the illegal Microsoft system, before donation! Now, explain to your lucky recipient that all the manuals they will ever need are available for free on the internet! Just ask for them in Google! OpenOffice, which is installed already is plenty adequate for homework assignments and with a little exploring, everything else can work well too! Happy commuting!

By: Claudius

Claudius — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:55:02 +0000

The author uvazhuha! Here’s how to write blogs must! Everyone stands to learn, boys!

By: ranser

ranser — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:50:32 +0000

Nick, please stop this cheap advertising technics! Linux is about free software. All codecs load in Ubuntu automatically when you open media player the first time. I have ubuntu for a year, I installed two distros feisty and gutsy and i don’t remember ever installing any codecs. You just tick a box and they install themselves. And for usability Ubuntu simply rocks. And it has eye candy that beats the cr*p out of windows and levels macOs. Try compiz with emerald, awn and oxygen theme and icons and then we’ll talk. And all this in ubuntu installs without any use of command line. Show me any other distro that does that and costs nothing and I’ll give you a grand. The fact the majority of people are stupid ((80/20) rule applies here too) enough to not care or want to learn anything new is a different issue altogether….

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:49:37 +0000

Xandros 4 home or home premium would be a better choice for most users,its not free of cost but it is only around £20.00 or $40.00 but is complete with most codecs etc. that you may want or need and it just works !Home premium gets you the ability to install many windows apps inc versions of Microsoft Office although the incuded OpenOffice will do all that most people want !

By: Etc

Etc — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:56:23 +0000

Ah, this is old news. The columnist you are talking about in Newsday has written about GNU/Linux in the past in many articles. He covers all three, Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux. Windows gets the most coverage, but he attempts to round out some articles by also covering Macs and a little less than Macs, GNU/Linux. Can’t remember the past articles, but when I get the Sunday Newsday I always check his articles in case I get any tips (he had a wonderful article on research sources on the internet for school research many months ago), tips on GNU/Linux, updates in the Mac/Apple world (even though I’ve never owned an Apple computer and get nearly all my tech news online), and just to see whether and how much article space he gives to GNU/Linux and whether what he writes is easy to understand for newbies and wannabees.

So there’s nothing eye opening about him mentioning GNU/Linux or Ubuntu specifically this past Sunday (still have the article btw).

By: Kitaj

Kitaj — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:46:44 +0000

For me “(K)ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘I can’t configure Debian’”. I never used Gnome so I tried few times to work with Kubuntu, but eventually always replaced it with Debian. Thus said I always use Kubuntu to install Linux on my friends computer. It is Debian based, so I can help them easily, it requires less setting up to work as a windows user might expect and requires less Linux knowledge from an ex window user to run it independently in daily life.

By: Zexy

Zexy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:04:24 +0000

Some of you keep mentioning the obvious, that being that there are “other linux distributions” that do the job better<>. It is generally known throughout the linux community about the many many choices available to us as linux users. The point of this article like so many others is that for “Mainstreet Windows users” that are just now getting tired of the mess that is “windows” and opening thier eyes, there aren’t too many “mainstreet outlets”(yet) to look for alternatives. That of course is changing but it won’t happen overnight that Linux in general will be a default accepted alternative to Windows. So if it’s only Ubuntu/Dell or some other well known manufacturer/distro, all that matters is that Linux is becoming accessable to the mainstream users. You people just have to remember that is is NOT what you as a individual linux user thinks that matters because you aren’t even considered relevant to the big picture until there is actually new user pool to fish from. You have to view things from the perspective of that all important mainstreet user. Truth of the matter is without the big companys like Dell/HP/Lenova/etc, linux doesn’t stand a chance in hell of ever becoming mainstream so let them do thier job and quit pissing and moaning that they don’t use “your” distro. When the pool fills up with newbie fish, then you can try and hook them over to your specific distro but at least let them get some fish in the pool first.

By: TK

TK — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:12:25 +0000

Some folks keep saying there are other distributions out there other than Ubuntu. This was actually voted on Dell’s Ideastorm website before they began offering the product, and a pretty overwhelming majority asked for Ubuntu. Since then, Dell has added some of its own tweaks, drivers, codecs, and whatnot to the product; and some of it–whatever is Free–makes it back upstream.

If you do install Ubuntu 7.10 on your own, most of the codecs are now pretty trivial to add, a rather significant improvement over previous releases.

I say this to second some of the other comments, Ubuntu or not, it’s a GOOD THING that GNU/Linux is being pre-installed on commercial products instead of JUST homebrewed or second-hand computers. We are nearing critical mass.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:23:59 +0000

I am a geek, I live on Main Street, and I use Ubuntu.