Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

suse-linux-e wrote:
> Sid Boyce wrote:
>
> > It's difficult at times to convince others. My neighbour distrusts 
> > using firefox though IE causes him so much grief with malware, I got 
> > the impression that if I had made the attempt to dowload it, I'd have 
> > no fingers left. You can bring out a knoppix CD, but they are then 
> > suspicious that something foreign and dangerous will land on their 
> > hard drive. If you succeed in demoing knoppix, forever after that, 
> > Linux will be blamed for any subsequent problems. I can see more 
> > widespread use when people at work are forced to use Linux.
>
>
> This is where I have an advantage. I'm the boss so I get to select the 
> OS  ;-)  I'm in an interesting bind however. I don't have good enough 
> hardware to run a modern Linux desktop at a reasonable speed and new 
> hardware isn't an option right now. So everyone thinks the computers are 
> slow because of Linux. Ironically they would be just as slow (or slower) 
> on Windows but I'm not going to install XP just to prove the point.
Linux always carries the blame tag. That's a bind as none of the other 
light window managers seem to fit the looks of Windows as far as I know, 
though they have the speed. I have a P-II/333/64M +2M video laptop here 
which was as slow as treacle with KDE, so when I installed SuSE 9.2, I 
opted for Windowmaker which has made it very responsive.

> > There are also those who have Linux installed, but keep it a secret 
> > until you tell them you run only Linux. Sun hasn't helped either, 
> > gnome on Solaris SPARC is a joke and takes away functionality - unless 
> > it's smartened up for the final release, it'll give a tarnished 
> > impression that could rub off on Linux if the persons are Solaris 
> > aware and know next to nothing about Linux.
>
>
> I haven't looked at the Sun offerings for Linux but I did check out the 
> Solaris 10 preview version. The minimalistic Gnome desktop looked like 
> RH 6.2 and the features I wanted to try (zfs for example) weren't in the 
> preview. I was a bit disappointed although I still think the technology 
> is really interesting.
As it's basically SuSE, I don't think they could mess it up. It remains 
to be seen if the final product reflects more than Sun's minimalist 
approach to both hardware and software, though they promise x86_64 
hardware no other seller can offer - I've viewed their seminar online 
and is dynamite marketing material as has been true for every marketing 
presentation I've ever seen.

> > We used OS/2 in our (Amdahl/Fujitsu) mainframe consoles/HMC's and it 
> > also was the OS driving the IBM HMC (Hardware Management Console), but 
> > they were porting the new HMC to Linux as development of OS/2 stopped.
>
>
> We have a number of legacy OS/2 programs that need replacing. I'm 
> re-writing them in C++ and Qt but I'm not much of a programmer and it's 
> going *really* slowly. The old programs were written in an OS/2 dbase 
> style language so 0% of the code is reusable and going from procedural 
> to OO and SQL I'm losing most of the program flow and logic as well. If 
> I can just hold those boxes together for a few more months...
>
> Jeff
Hope all goes well as it looks like quite a project for one person and 
no budget for it.
Regards
Sid.
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