Re: Linux

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I must say, Jordan, that actually installing Ubuntu, you would hardly
know it wasn't Windows or MacOS. I don't know how these live CDs work - -
perhaps they don't or can't get screen resolution and other hardware
issues to work 'out of the box'. Installing Ubuntu on an older PC always
seems to result in faster browsing from Firefox than the very latest
Windows or Mac installation. However, I must admit that I have been
unwilling to deal with partition issues in Win 7 and Win 8. The Ubuntu
installations I have successfully made have co-existed with XP or Vista.



At 31/03/2014 23:26, you wrote:



btw, if you happen to know, whatever became of "Lindows"
?  At one point, some years back, this was supposedly poised to take
the spotlight, having a major deal with Walmart or another very big
player like that.  But then, total silence.  I've not heard the
name in years.  The hype was that they had come up with a UI closely
mimicking the Win one, setting the stage for much easier user
adoption.  Either this was a promise not delivered on, or the
product went under suddenly, or perhaps MS pushed them off a cliff
?


Some might argue (as in that article I linked) that the Mac OS is in fact
the more readily accessible Linux.  And it does seem to have fairly
non-geeky solutions for running a lot of Windows software.




   Jordan




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From: Raphael 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx 


Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 2:45 PM


Subject: Re: Linux





my pleasure, flash. I am happy to help out anyone who wants to try
using 


Ubuntu as his or her XyWrite platform. I think I've discussed with



someone else on this list the possibility of putting together a
how-to 


for XyWrite for the six or seven people who *might* be interested;



stepping someone through it here would be a great way to get
started.



my best recommendation to anyone who is curious: take out an old
laptop, 


install it on that, and play around with it, or, failing that,
download 


a DVD ISO, burn it, boot it -- then spend a little time seeing how
well 


the things you use all day long (Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird) or
the 


things very like them (LibreOffice) work. the days are long since
gone 


when Linux was command-line only; Ubuntu's Unity has some extremely
cool 


GUI stuff going on that puts BOTH Mac and Windows to shame.



-rafe



On 03/31/2014 02:17 AM, flash wrote:


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> Thanks for reminding us, Rafe.


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