[plug] Mandriva Free Spring 2008

[Mark J Gaynor]

And I. That makes three!

Mark
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On 2/06/2008 at 8:17 AM Kev wrote:

:>Yes, my sentiments exactly.  I don't recall who it was, but some 
:>(in)famous yank polly once said, "It's amazing how absence of choice 
:>clears the mind."  I didn't realise there was another one of us using 
:>Xandros.
:>
:>Kev
:>
:>
:>
:>Jim Householder wrote:
:>> I quite agree.  Too much choice can be bad.  I've lost track of the 
:>> number of hours (weeks?, months?) spent dithering over nearly equal 
:>> choices...
:>>
:>> I dabbled a bit with GNU/Linux for several years, but did not 
:>> seriously use it until I found Xandros.  While Debian based, it got me 
:>> started.
:>>
:>> Jim
:>>
:>> Paul Antoine wrote:
:>>> My experience with people is that simplicity is indeed the reduction 
:>>> of choices hit on introduction to something new.  It would appear to 
:>>> be human nature to be overwhelmed easily by a great deal of choice.  
:>>> Indeed recent research points to wide choice as a major psychological 
:>>> stressor of the modern world.
:>>>
:>>> I feel Ubuntu does a very reasonable job of selecting a useful set of 
:>>> initial choices for those at whom it is primarily aimed: the average 
:>>> person switching from a zero-choice windows environment or not used 
:>>> to installing an operating system.
:>>>
:>>> Ubuntu is *not* aimed at the literate and advanced user though as one 
:>>> such user I find it very comfortable to work with.
:>>>
:>>> Paul
:>>>
:>>> Gavin Chester wrote:
:>>>> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 22:10 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
:>>>>  
:>>>>> A feature I did not like was the fixed set of packages installed.  
:>>>>> No choice at all,
:>>>>>     
:>>>>
:>>>> <unintended flamebait>
:>>>> But you can't condemn it for that since isn't that also what the
:>>>> over-popular ubuntu has been doing since day one? That's one big
:>reason
:>>>> I have only dabbled with ubuntu, never making it my chosen distro.
:>IOW,
:>>>> it's not the first and only distro to think simplicity resides with
:>>>> reduced choice (at least until the user understands how to add
:>packages
:>>>> with this thing called a 'package manager')
:>>>> ;-)
:>>>>
:>>>> Gavin
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:>>>
:>>>
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:>
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:>=======================================================================
:>Kev Downes
:>kdownes at bbnet.com.au  ph 0404 7 0808 2
:>We used to use and recommend Xandros but they went to the dark side
:>So we'll soon be using and recommending Debian Etch
:>=======================================================================
:>There are 10 types of people ...
:>   ... those who understand binary, and those who don't!
:>=======================================================================
:>There is sufficient light for those who desire to see,
:>and there is sufficient darkness for those of a contrary disposition.
:>        - Blaise Pascal, Pensees 149
:>=======================================================================
:>
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