[LINK] Moved to Linux

[Adam Todd]

At 09:31 AM 11/09/2006, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>Richard, out of curiosity, why Linspire instead of something like Ubuntu?
>
>Incidentally, I did an installation of Vista pre-RC1 the other day.  I 
>have to admit that the installation is considerably faster than XP SP2 and 
>with only 2 reboot; which is just as well when you think how often the 
>user might have to perform said task.

Yes but that's only half the problem.  Every time you install new software 
you have to "reboot" to make it work.

Yet on Linux or OSX I rarely every have to "reboot" to load drivers or the 
likes and the only time I do is when *I* really stuff up the loading 
sequence because I'm silly enough to want to reverse engineer it's workings 
to understand it!

(Gawd, I'd never bother to try and reverse engineer anything Windows, it's 
so convoluted.)


>...but talk about bloat.  Vista Ultimate occupies 7.4Gb of HDD real 
>estate, and Business N occupies 6.8Gb - I ask you, what corporation want 
>that sized opsys just to run their accounts, etc.

But hard drives are cheap.  300 gigs for under $150 now.  Laptop hard 
drives are 120 gig for around $150.

What you want to load other software?  Why?

Gone are the days of the diskless workstation!  There is no real cost 
benefit or saving and remote boot workstations are hard to run in principal 
these days.

I guess Vista won't be booting off any USB drives in the near future :)  I 
think the largest I've seen is 4 GB :)

>I have to say the eye candy looks good, but I still think it looks like it 
>should have been better called XP SE.

<rofl>