atw: Re: Windows-free at last.

Indeed.  Linux can teach you a lot about how a computer works, but requires too 
much massaging to get it working the way 
you want.

All things are possible, but the old adage is that "Linux is free if your time 
is worthless".  Unless, of course, you are 
administering a Linux server and can be paid a great deal to do so.

As a Mac user, I am impressed with Windows 7.  A massive step in the right 
direction.  Still could do with polish in some 
areas (e.g. 
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/reviews/2009/10/windows-7-the-review.ars/4).

Evan.



On Thu Nov  5 11:46 , "Ian Gabriel"  sent:

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>Hi Austecchies,
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>Getting back to the technical aspects of this 
>subject. I've just blown Ubuntu Linux off my machine. I bought a cheap Netbook 
>for travelling and it had Ubuntu Linux. I thought that this would be okay 
>because I have some Unix experience. 
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>However it all went downhill when I wanted some 
>system security and virus protection. There are no commercial products for 
>this 
>and the self-loving Linux people on the forums claim that such things are 
>unnecessary. According to them people write viruses because they hate Bill 
>Gates! Therefore Linux is pure and innocent. It's true that a virus cannot 
>affect the system settings because you have to use a password to change these 
>things. So Linux is safe, but my personal data was freely available. I tried 
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>install the "freeware" virus checkers and firewalls without any success and, 
>believe me, after many hours of trying.
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>I have decided that Linux is more about the journey 
>than the destination. Some of the readme files on these tools regale you with 
>the excitement of incompatibilities that you can spend many happy hours 
>resolving. Aaaargh.
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>The final straw was trying to install the Vodafone 
>broadband internet stick. That probably had the longest readme file and the 
>worst potential consequences. Needless to say, I never got that to 
>work.
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>A few weeks ago I installed the (temporarily) free 
>Windows 7 pre-release client. It was the easiest and quickest operating system 
>installation system I have ever performed. It runs very fast on the small 
>netbook. I think that it also boots up quicker than Ubuntu, but I can't 
>measure that now. Even the Vodafone thing worked immediately.
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>For me, the price of the free Linux experience was 
>far too high. I acknowledged at the beginning that I would have to adopt the 
>role of system administrator and troubleshooter. Somewhere along the way I 
>never 
>got to be a normal user.
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>Oops stand by for the Micky backlash!
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>Ian Gabriel
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
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>  Write Ideas 
>  To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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>  Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:07 
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>  Subject: atw: Re: Windows-free at 
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>Well that's the recommended 
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>The bare minimum is 4Gb.
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>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
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>Cheers,
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>Micky G.
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>Write Ideas
>Melbourne, Victoria, 
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>http://www.writeideas.com.au/
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>  Wow, that’s 
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