"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
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That sounds stupid to me.
Is Microsoft a German company?
Is IBM a German company?
Are HP, Sun, AMD, Intel, ... German companies?
Besides, considering the *tight* budget many government agencies have, I don't see how that could ever be a point in a buying decision.
I guess it's more like government agencies are ditching the expensive SuSE/Novell-support (which I haven't heard anything good about, anyway) in favor of cheap and flexible support provided by small companies.
I agree with the previous poster. The idea that Germans are arrogant enough to ditch SuSE just because it's been taken over by an American Company is ridiculous. It is far more likely to be the same problem that Red Hat has been having ever since it changed it's licensing scheme and started charging more. In fact the Red Hat licence scheme change also benefited Debian for a while as many SysAdmins and CIO's decided there was little point in paying an extortionate sum for GNU/Linux when it (the software) is available from a great vendor like Debian for free.
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Gentoo, GNU/Linux on crack!
This may not be a crazy as people think. Germans can be as Nationalistic as anyone. If there was a German company making products on par with IBM, or HP, there could also be a mass switch. Remember, a big movement in the US was "Made in the US". China is doing the same thing with it's software. This is about money, and money into state treasuries.
That's true. Just likeFrench government bodies look at Mandrake first.
I happen to live in Germany, and many people here are simply disappointed with SuSE's = Novell's new way. Nobody cares a sh*t who the owner is, but people care a lot if the most recent Linux version messes up their RAIDs and all you get from SuSE is a €50 bill for a "telephone support" talk that did not fix anything.
Debian is a superior distribution from a server tech's point of view. To say that www.backports.org has saved my sorry a** a thousand times over would be the understatement of the decade.